Accordingly, the objectives and methods of social welfare have also been changing. The approach to social welfare work these days is more collective and aims at achieving public good. Social welfare is a specialised work undertaken for the benefit of the weaker and more vulnerable sections of the...
Focusing on social work and social service delivery, this book examines the social policies and programmes designed to address different societal issues and concerns across India and China. It focuses on gaining understanding of design and delivery of social welfare policies related to special interest...
Religion andphilosophyhave tended to provide frameworks for the conduct of social welfare. The edicts of the Buddhist emperor Aśoka in India, the sociopolitical doctrines of ancientGreeceandRome, and the simple rules of the early Christiancommunitiesare only a few examples of systems that addressed...
• Item No. 24: Welfare of Labour including conditions of work, provident funds, employers’ liability, workmen’s compensation, invalidity and old age pension and maternity benefits. Part IV Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution of India lays down the following: Article 41 Ri...
Recognition of the significance of public wage employment programmes in tackling unpredictable community “covariate” shocks and ensuring livelihood security of the rural poor has led to the enactment of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, with state guarantee of work. Implementati...
Vida Dutton Scudder was an American writer, educator, and reformer whose social welfare work and activism were predicated on her socialist beliefs. Scudder was the daughter of a Congregationalist missionary. In 1862 she and her widowed mother moved from
Welfare PolicyEntitlementsSocial SecurityWork WelfareNutritionIndiaThere has been a major expansion of social security programmes in India during the last fifteen years or so, along with wider recognition of economic and socialDrèze, JeanKhera, Reetika...
The satire here is glaring: Sweetums gleeful disregard for public welfare underscores how marketing can be wielded as a tool for harm when unchecked by principles. While they rake in profits, the community bears the costs. Lesson : The line between clever marketing and exploitation is thinner ...
2018). Public and private sector innovation has boosted digital financial inclusion in India. The Indian government now provides social welfare scheme benefits digitally via direct benefit transfer into the beneficiary’s bank account. The Indian government has taken various initiatives for digital ...
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