2. Introduction
Nurturing the children, who are the tender
seedlings of the social field is necessary.
Poor widows, destitute women, pregnant
and lactating women need greater
attention and support.
Keeping these needs in mind, special
attention has been given by the State
through a number of programmes under
Social Welfare sector.
3. Social welfare
Definition
Social welfare is any program
which seeks to provide a minimum level of
income, service or other support for any
marginalized group.
(poor, elderly, disabled)
4. Social Institutions
Social institutions are networks of
relationships that carry out the essential
social functions.
They are formalized way of providing
resources for helping to meet human
needs.
5. The priorities of social welfare service
(a)To establish a social security system;
(b) To extend facilities for community development;
(c) To improve the quality and scope of services;
(d) To ensure that adequate facilities are available for the
disabled;
(e) To provide services for the elderly
(f) To ensure the adequate provision of probation and
correctional services; and
(g) To support training, planning, research and evaluation.
6. The Priority groups are
(a) Children in need
(b) Women
(c) Old people
(d) Disabled
(e) People with ill-health
(f) Under privileged sections of society
7. Children In-Need
More vulnerable group in the society
Constitute about 40% of Indian Population
IMR is 120/1000 children born
One child dies before 5 years for every 7
children born
Causes- malnutrition, nutritional anemia, RHD
16 million are child labour & most are
exploited
8. Constitutional provisions
Law prescribing minimum age for boys and
girls
Hindu adoption & maintenance Act(1956)
Juvenile justice Act 1986
Appointment of guardian for a minor child’s
property
Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation
and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994
9. Welfare services for children
Girl Child Protection Scheme(GCPS 1-4-05)
The families who have one girl child and no male
children and parents has undergone sterilization, aged
below 35 years and their family income is below
Rs.50000/- p.a.,
Initial deposit of Rs.22200/- for one girl child or
Rs.15200/- each for 2 girl children will be made.
An amount of Rs.150/- as monthly incentive will be
given to the child from the 5th year for educational
purpose
On completion of 20 years, the girl child will receive
the lump sum amount on condition that she has
appeared for the 10th Std.
10. Welfare services for children
cont….
Reception centres for adopting new born
female babies/Cradle Baby scheme,
Crèches for working and ailing mothers,
11. Women’s Welfare
Women are the most vulnerable group
Empowerment of women is the hall mark
of the approach of the Government in its
development initiatives (social, political
and economic)
12. The government is playing a conscious
role in empowering of women by
The reservation of 33, 1/3rd Jobs for women in
Govt. and public sector with carry forward
policy.
1/3rd of budget of all departments for
developmental programmes for women.
The year 2001 was celebrated as ‘Year of
Women Empowerment and the year 2003 as
the Year of Adolescent Girls’.
14. Welfare scheme for women
Marriage assistance schemes,
service homes,
guidance bureau for women,
setting up of family counselling centres.
15. Marriage assistance
schemes
Financial assistance is given to daughters of
poor widows, orphan girls, widow's remarriage
and inter-caste marriage.
Minimum age limit of marriage is 20 years
The quantum of assistance of all marriage
schemes except inter-caste marriage is fixed as
Rs.10,000/- per beneficiary.
For inter-caste marriage, the quantum of
assistance is fixed as Rs.20,000/- for SC/ ST
with FC/ BC/ MBC and Rs.10,000/- for BC/
MBC with FC.
16. Guidance Bureau For Women
Helps needy women especially widows,
deserted wives and destitute in
obtaining bank loan,
helps women to liaison with other Government
departments
in settling LIC dues, provident fund and pension
benefits and
helps to get admissions for needy children in
orphanages, creches etc.
17. Service homes
Women in the age group of 18 to 40 and
with income not exceeding Rs.12000 p.a.
are admitted in the service homes with
their children.
they are provided food, shelter, education,
stipend, clothing allowance, vocational
training in secretarial course and tailoring,
a lump sum grant for the purchase of raw
material
18. Tamil Nadu Women's Development
Project
launched in 1996-97
free gas connections to newly married
couples’
Women's Self Help Groups (SHGs)
Regular group savings from the individual
resources of the participating women
Vocational training
Rural SHG members to meet, interact, read
newspapers and magazines, play games,
have other recreational activities
19. Old people
There are 81million older people in India.
According to an estimate nearly 40% of
senior citizens living with their families are
reportedly facing abuse of one kind or
another, but only 1 in 6 cases actually
comes to light.
20. Legislation
The President has given her assent to the
Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and
Senior Citizens Act
punishes children who abandon parents with
a prison term of three months or a fine,
situation is grim for elderly people in India.
21. National Old Age Pension Scheme
All persons of 65 years and above (belonging
to below the poverty line) are eligible.
Destitute persons who don’t have any kind of
source of income can also avail this pension
facility.
The pension amount is Rs. 400 per month to
per person.
Day care centres
Free medical care
Elder’s day on 18th
November
22. Voluntary Organizations Involvement
Old-age homes
Help-Age India
Create awareness on need of aged in society,
Medicare units, old-age home, day centre
Age-Care India
Mobile free geriatric health checkup to rural
elderly
23. Welfare of the disabled
A disabled is a person who has a
disadvantage from an impairment or
disability, which alters his/her normal life in
the society
Disability can result from accidents,
disease or birth
10% of world population are disabled
24. In Tamilnadu
Department for the Welfare of the
Differently Abled Persons has been
created under the direct supervision of
Hon’ble Chief Minister.
Government to refer them as Differently
Abled Persons as they possess
exceptional and extraordinary talents.
25. Welfare Activities
National Institute of disabled
Rehabilitation council
Spastic society of India
District rehabilitative centres
Artificial limb manufacturing corporation
Training facilities for Employment
26. Other services
Bank loans at concessional rate of interest
Concession for travelling in bus, air, train
Priority in allotment of Govt. houses
Scholarship for students
3% vacancy in govt. and public sector
Free prosthetic, Braille library,
Braille watches
27. Drug addicts
Major problem of society
16-35 years are affected
Children and youth are mainly involved
28. Stringent legislation
Narcotic Drugs And Psychotropic
Substance Act 1985
Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs
And Psychotropic Substance Act 1988
Covers areas like production, manufacturing,
sales, purchase, warehousing, and
consumption of drugs
Person can be detained for 3 months
29. Welfare program for addicts
Voluntary action agency
Counseling centers
Public awareness and prevention education
Street plays, house to house talk, essay, debate
De-addiction campaign
Introduction of award scheme for customs
officers and informers.
30. The underprivileged sections of
society
Includes scheduled class, scheduled
tribes and other backward classes
Also known as deprived classes of the
society because they suffered numerous
disabilities and deprivations
1/4th
of the total population
are scheduled class and tribes
31. Scheduled Castes Development Bureau,
ensure financial and physical benefits for the
benefit of Scheduled Castes.
Under the strategy, States/UTs are required to
formulate and implement Special Component
Plan (SCP) for Scheduled Castes as part of their
Annual Plans by earmarking resources.
Special Central Assistance to Special
Component Plan, in which cent percent
assistance is given as additive to Schedules
Caste Sub-Plan of the States/UTs
32. The Ministry implements two Acts for
protecting the civil rights of the Scheduled
Castes viz.
Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and
The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled
Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989).
33. Representation in legislatures
Our constitution is providing reservation in
Lok Sabha and state legislative in proportion
to their population
Reservation in services
SC/ST will be taken into consideration
22.50% of the total number of the vacancies
for backward class who are not adequately
represented
34. Centrally sponsored schemes
Post metric scholarship for students
Premetric scholarship for parents in under
occupation
Book banks
Hostel for girls and boys
National Overseas Scholarship-to go
abroad for higher education
35. Mandal Commission For Backward Class
27% of the public service post
Govt. should finance welfare programs
Set up of small scale industry
Radical land reform
36. Supply Chain of Social Reforms
Government offers
various schemes - Supply
Beneficiaries of the schemes
are identified and made
aware - Demand
Social Workers help the
beneficiaries with required
formalities for each scheme
Social Workers study the
schemes available
Each application for benefits
is followed up with the
Government
The social workers ensure
that the beneficiaries receive
their deserved benefits
The needy receive the help
they need and deserve
38. Solution...
Community health
nurse should partner
with the Government
and bridge the gap
that exists between
the supply and
demand of the
schemes and in the
process utilize the
widely practiced
management skills to
help bring about
Social Reforms