<span style="color: #222222;">The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recognised the need to enumerate women's participation in local government bodies in the Gender Gap Report. In a tweet, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti  Irani, who pressed for it during the recent WEF meeting at Davos said, this is a big victory for 1.4 million grassroots women locally elected at the Panchayat level in India. She said, the WEF also confirmed its willingness to study India's Gender Budget System.<br />''<br />''The Minister added that it is a huge acknowledgement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to ensure women-led development. Sources said India has made an economic case for gender justice by implementing various welfare measures for women.</span><br />