Vol. 6, Issue 4, Part A (2020)

Abstract
Women’s empowerment has become a significant topic of discussion in development. Women empowerment is empowering the women to take their own decisions for their personal dependent. Empowering women is to make them independent in all aspects from mind, thought, rights, decisions, etc by leaving all the social and family limitations. It is to bring equality in the society for both male and female in all areas. The Government of Telangana has implemented all the welfare schemes framed by Government of India as well as the State has been giving all the priority to the women as per the Constitution of India, but still it has been observed that women are not able to reach to the mainstream of the society so the state felt the need that is empowering women is not enough, they should take the initiative to justify the empowerment. The present paper is an attempt to study the government initiatives schemes or programmes and allocation of budget of both central government and state government for women’s empowerment in Women & Child welfare and Rural Development from 2014 to 2019. The Government of Telangana state has initiated so many programmes for women empowerment. The Study is based on secondary data sources. The study is descriptive and analytical in nature. The necessary information about the Women Empowerment Programmes in Telangana state and its various components are collected from Annual Plan of Telangana Budget documents Books, Journals, Internet Source or related topic and % GSDP annual growth form the financial year 2014-2019 technique is used from the Ministry of Statistics and Planning Commission of India.