Course Objective: To examine current strategies for ensuring social justice and inclusion in in the Indian context and to explore ways and means for building a fair, just and harmonious society
Learning Outcomes:
Concept of Social Welfare: Social Welfare Administration; Meaning, Scope & Significance; Social Change and Social Justice; Gender and Development, Social Issues
Social Policy, Methods of Social Administration - Social Case Work; Group Work and Community Organization, Role of Voluntary/ Non-Governmental Agencies in Socio-Economic Development; Functions and Role of NGOs, Civil Society and Self Help-Group For Social Welfare.
Social Welfare Polices and Programmes for SC/ST, OBCs, Women, Child, Disabled and Aged at Central & State level; Composition and Functions of National Commission: for SC/ST, Women, Other Backward Classes and Minorities
Social Welfare Administration at Union Level: Composition and Functions of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment; Ministry of Tribal Affairs; Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Minority Affairs; Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB); Social Welfare Administration at State Level: Department of Social Welfare and State Social Welfare Board (SSWB)
International Agencies for Social Welfare: Composition and Functions of UNESCO, UNICEF, ILO, WHO (with special reference to India); Policy for Inclusive Development: Social Justice with Equity and Harmony