Relevancy behind this post is that Indian annual budget is coming up.

Quotas, tax discounts, support, etc. for women are announced every year in India and many people are abusing it.

Men only get short end of the stick and abuse. So many people reached out to social media to raise their concerns. Some of the demands / points raised by people on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram Whats App, Flipboard etc. I went through them and listed some of the most popular demands that justify a gender budget for men in India.

1) For all crimes ranging from Murders to cheating or fraud and almost every crime where data is available for both genders, it is found that mostly the victims are men and boys. A demand is now being raised to have separate allocation of funds for safety and security of men.

2) More and more boys are forced to leave education and get into labour market due to lack of support for them. So the country wants a) free education to boys on the lines of that already provided to girls. b) Equal scholarship to deserving boys.

3) Fund for treating male specific cancer too. Eg. Prostate cancer etc.

4) To keep tax slabs rate same for men and women.

5) Since many men are trapped in matrimonial disputes for money. The country wants tax rebate on the money paid by spouse in the form of maintenance / alimony.

6) Tax concession scheme for male entrepreneurs on the lines of those provided to female entrepreneur.

7) Banks should offer loans to men at same interest rate as that offered to women to prevent extra loss for men.

After the demonetization drive people have lot of expectations from Arun Jaitely, Narendra Modi to lower their hardship. Since Mr. Narendra Modi and the BJP government is supposedly very tech savvy and takes into account the views of general public on social media. It will be interesting to see if this budget has something for men or is biased against them.