Social Welfare Department
Introduction
The Department of Social Welfare
was set up by the state Government in the year 1955 with
the objective of providing social services to the weaker
sections, socially mal-adjusted & under privileged sections
of the society and rehabilitation of the Pakistani Refugees.
With the passage of time the objective of the Department
has changed manifold and it has become a broad spectrum.
In fact the mission of the Department has been changed from
"Welfare" to "Social Therapy and Development".
Now its scope has been widened to provide physical, emotional,
psychological, economic, employment & income generation,
gender sensitization, awareness generation, child survival
and child Development support to the aged and informs, Destitute,
delinquent, physically handicapped, juveniles, widows and
destitute women, nursing and lactating mothers and children
below the age of six years. This way the Department of social
Therapy covers 70% population of the State.
Objectives
The objective of the Department
of Social Security and Women & child Development is to
cater to the developmental needs of over 70% population of
the state by ensuring that the benefits of development from
different sectors do not bypass children, women, aged and
persons with disabilities. The flow of benefits under Pension/Financial
aid schemes for the old Age, widow and Destitute women, Dependent
Children, Disabled Persons, the flow of benefits to women
in the three core sectors of education, health and employment
and package of child survival and child Development support
under the I.C.D.S. Program shall be kept under close vigil
and surveillance as these contribute a great deal towards
main-streaming and National Development.
In order to achieve this objective the department recognizes
that it responses to the problems of aged and weak. As such,
the focus of the department is on an integrated approach
for providing various services must not regard them as mere
passive developmental process. Such participation requires
the beneficiaries particularly the women and the disabled
to be mobilized into groups at the grass root level through
which they can orchestrate coordination or Government program
and articulate their hops and aspirations.
Administrative Structure
The Department of Social Security and Women
& Child Development is headed by a Director who acts as
head of the Department.
Organizational Structure of Social Security Women and Child
Development, Punjab
| Minister |
| Social
Security and Women & Child Development
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| Secretary |
| Social
Security and Women & Child Development
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| Director |
| Social
Security and Women & Child Development |
| Additional
Director |
| Additional
Director (SS) |
Joint
Director (Admn) |
Joint
Director (ICDS)
(two posts) |
Deputy
Controller, (Finance & Accounts) |
| Deputy
Director (Pension) |
Deputy
Director (Defence) |
Deputy
Director (General-I) |
Deputy
Director (General-II) |
Joint
Director (Admn) |
Deputy
Directors (four posts) |
Superint-endent
(Accounts) |
| District
Social Security Officers in each District |
12
Superintendent Homes Under Juvenile Justice Act. |
1.
V.R.C. Ludhiana Hoshiarpur, Bathinda. 2.Institute
for Blinds, Ludhiana. 3.Workshop
for the handicapped, Ludhiana.
4. Home for Mentally retarded children Kapurthala.
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1.
Gandhi Vanita Ashram Jalandhar. 2.Kasturba Sewa Ashram
Rajpura.
3. Home for Widows & Destitute Jalandhar.
4. Potective Home, Jalandhar.
5. Home for Aged and Infirms, Hoshiarpur.
6. Beggar Home, Kapurthala
7. Mahila Ashram High School, Hoshiarpur.
8.Gandhi Vanita Ashram High School, Jalandhar. |
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Programme
Officers in each district |
Section
Officer (I,II & III) |
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Child
Development Project Officers in each Block |
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Development of women & Children
who constitute about 70% of the total population of the state.
Providing social security to the Aged and Informs women and
destitute women, handicapped mentally retarded and delinquent
children, widows and destitute women.
Implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act 1986. Implementation
of the persons with disabilities (equal opportunities, protection
of rights and full participation) Act 1995.
Grantin-aid to non
government organization working for the rehabilitation or
Aged, weak and Disable.
2.50
lac beneficiaries have been benefited under the old Age
Pension Scheme.
60000 beneficiaries
have been benefited under Financial Assistance to widows
and destitute women scheme. 23000 beneficiaries have been
benefited under Financial Assistance to dependent children
scheme. 22000
beneficiaries have been benefited under Financial Assistance
to disabled persons scheme. There art 324 inmates in the
Homes working under the Juvenile Justice Act 1986.
337000
beneficiaries are getting benefit under ICDS Program 7000
beneficiaries have been benefited under Kanya Jagrit Joti
Scheme. 456000 women above the age of 60 years have been
provided free travel facility in Punjab Roadways and Pepsu
Road Transport Buses. 3% reservation has been provided to
the handicaps in Government jobs. 193 persons (blind) have
been adjusted in various Departments as on 28.2.98. The
retirement age for the blind has been enhanced from 58 years
to 60 years. 61 blind students ate studying in Govt. Institute
rot blind Ludhiana where free education, food, and hostel
facilities are provided to them up to 10th class.
A Braille Press and a Talking Library has also been set
up at a cost of Rs. 212.00 lac for providing free books
for students in Braille. Three vocational Rehabilitation
centres have been set up at Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana and Bhatinda
where Vocational Training is imparted to handicapped. Thirty
Five Non Government organisations have been given Grant-in-aid
amounting to Rs. 46.12 Iac during the year 1997-98 who are
working for the welfare of children women handicapped and
weaker section of the society.
Major
Schemes/Projects
Old
Age Pension
(Started in 1964)
Eligibility:
Age: Men -65 years as above; Women
-60 years of above.
Income:
Upto Rs. 1000, if applicant is single and up to Rs.1500
per month for couples.
Domicile:
He/She should be bonafide resident of Punjab and certificate
of residing in Punjab at least for 3 years.
Rate
of Pension: Rs.200 per month per beneficiary.
Mode
of payment: Quarterly through Banks.
How to apply
A very simple
application form is available free of cost from the office
of District Social Security Officer. The contents to be certified
by the Sarpanch and Lamberdar of the village and in towns/city
by the Municipal Counselor and attested by either SDO (C)/Executive
Magistrate/ Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar/Programmer Officer (ICDS)/CDPO/BDPO.
Sanction of Pension
Applications,
Complete in all respects, are submitted in the office of District
Social Security Officer who processes the case, if found in
order, Additional Deputy Commissioner sanctions the pension/financial
assistance. Financial
Assistance to Widows and Destitute Women
(Started in 1968)
Eligibility:
Age : Applicant should be less than 60 year old.
Domicile:
She should be bonafide resident of Punjab and should be
residing in Punjab for the last three years.
Income : Any widow or women including unmarried
women of 30 years age and above, deprived of her husband's
support, for any reason whatever, resulting her to lead
a life of destitution shall be eligible for financial assistance,
if her income is less than 1000 per month.
Rate
of Pension: Rs.200 per month per beneficiary.
Mode
of payment: Quarterly through Banks.
How
to apply: A very simple application from is available
freed of cost from the office of District Social Security
Officer. The contents to be certified by the Sarpanch and
Lamberdar of the village and in towns/city by the Municipal
Counselor and attested by either SDO (C)/Executive Magistrate/Tehsildar/Naib
Tehsildar/Programmer Officer (ICDS)/CDPO/BDPO.
Sanction
of Pension: Applications, complete in all respects,
are submitted in the office of District Social Security
Officer who processes the case, if found in order, Additional
Deputy Commissioner sanctions the pension/financial assistance.
Budgetary
Provision and Achievements
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1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Beneficiaries |
49437 |
60407 |
68840
(Proposed) |
| Expenditure/Budget |
Rs.031.63
lacs |
Rs.1359.21
lacs |
1652.18
lacs (Plan Budget not yet approved) |
Finance
Assistance to Dependent Children
(Started in 1968)
Eligibility:
Age: Orphan and destitute children below the age of 21.
Income:
The income of the mother or father/guardian should not exceed
Rs.1000 per month. Where parents are alive, income of both
mother and father should not exceed Rs.1500 per month in
a family, financial assistance is restricted only upto 2
children. Relaxation in income limit to the extent of Rs.300
per child for 2 children is admissible.
Rate
of Pension: Rs.200 per month per beneficiary.
Mode
of Payment: Quarterly through Banks.
How
to apply: A very simple application from is available
free of cost from the office of District Social Security
Officer. The contents to be certified by the Sarpanch and
Lamberdar of the village and in towns/city by the Municipal
Counselor and attested by either SDO(C)/ Executive Magistrate/
Tehsildar/ NaibTehsildar/ Programmer Office (ICDS)/ CDPO/
BDPO.
Sanction of Pension: Applications, complete in all respects,
are submitted in the officer of District Social Security
Officer who processes the case, if found in order, Additional
Deputy Commissioner sanctions the pension/financial assistance.
Budgetary
Provision and Achievements
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1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Beneficiaries |
17042 |
22712 |
25698
(Proposed) |
| Expenditure/Budget |
Rs.506.88
lacs |
Rs.526.57
lacs |
616.74
lacs (Plan budget not yet approved) |
Financial
Assistance to Disabled Persons
(Started in 1982)
Eligibility:
Type & degree of disability: The handicapped person
(blind, deaf and dumb, mentally retarded and chronic patients
etc.) who, by reason of their severe degree of disability,
are permanently infirm dependent on others.
Income:
Should not exceed Rs.1000 per month
If
the applicant is married, the income of both husband and
wife should not exceed Rs.1500 per month.
If the disabled person is not earning, the income of parents
should not exceed Rs.2500 per month.
Rate
of Pension: Rs.200 per month per beneficiary.
Mode
of Pension: Quarterly through Banks.
How
to apply: A very simple application form is available
free of cost from the office of District Social Security
Officer. The contents to be certified by the Sarpanch and
Lamberdar of the village and attested by either SDO (C)/Executive
Magistrate/ Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar/Programme Officer (ICDS)/CDPO/BDPO.
Sanction
of Pension: Applications, complete in all respects,
area submitted in the office of District Social Security
Officer who processes the case, if found in order, Additional
Deputy Commissioner sanctions the pension/financial assistance.
Budgetary
Provision and Achievements
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1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Beneficiaries |
16969 |
21763 |
27274
(Proposed) |
| Expenditure/Budget |
Rs.413.50
lacs |
Rs.473.00
lacs |
654.57
lacs (Plan budget not yet approved) |
Juvenile Justice Act 1986
(Started on 2-10-1987)
Juvenile:
Girl below the age of 18 and boy below the age of 16.
Purpose:
Reception of neglected and delinquent Juveniles and their
rehabilitation and development.
Juvenile:
Patiala Patiala, Bathinda, Sangrur.
Welfare
Board Ropar Ropar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur.
Gurdaspur
Gurdaspur, Amritsar.
Jalandhar
Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ferozepur, Faridkot
Juvenile
Court Patiala Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib,
Ropar
Ropar, Hoshiarpur
Jalandhar
Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Nawanshehar
Gurdaspur
Gurdaspur, Amritsar
Faridkot
Faridkot, Ferozepur, Moga, Muktsar
Ludhiana
Ludhiana, Sangrur
Bathinda
Bathinda, Mansa
Observation
Home Jalandhar Jalandhar, Kapurthala
Patiala
Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib
Ropar
Ropar, Hoshiarpur
Gurdaspur
Gurdaspur, Amritsar
Faridkot
Faridkot, Ferozepur
Ludhiana
Ludhiana, Sangrur
Bathinda
Bathinda, Mansa
Juvenile
Home Jalandhar For Boys Hoshiarpur For Girls.
Special
home Hoshiarpur
State
After Care Home Ludhiana For Boys Amritsar For Girls.
Special
features:
The
Police will be in plain clothes except at the time of arrest
of the Juvenile.
The
Juvenile will not be handcuffed. As and when the Juvenile
is required to convey to Hospital for treatment, she will
be in complete clothes and a women would accompany her.
The
Juvenile will be heard in a separate Court or Chamber.
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1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Beneficiaries |
309 |
324 |
324 |
| Expenditure/Budget |
68.69
lac |
81.69
lac |
128.72
lacs.
(Plan budget not yet approved) |
Integrated
Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS)
(100% Centrally sponsored)
Started 1975 (in Nurpur Bedi Block) Covered all the blocks
in 1996.
Objective:
All round development of children below the age of 6 years.
To reduce death rate amongst children and to reduce drop outs
in the scheme.
Services
provided: The children the age of 6 years, Pregnant
ladies and
lactating mothers are provided the following services :-
Immunization;
Health
Check-up;
Supplementary
Nutrition;
Non
Formal Pre-School Education;
Referral
Services; and
Health
& Nutrition Education.
No.
of projects 137 rural, 5 Urban in slums.
Anganwari Centers
| Sanctioned |
15829 |
| Operational
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11986 |
Kanya Jagrit Joti Scheme
(Started 26-1-1996)
Eligibility:
The girl children borne on or after 26.1.1996 in the families
living below the poverty line are eligible under this scheme,
provided their parents adopt two child family norm.
Objective:
This scheme aims at upgrading the Social status of the girl
children besides, promoting family planning program.
Benefit:
An amount of Rs.5000/- is invested in the name of the beneficiary
with the Life Insurance Corporation. The child gets scholarship
@ Rs.100/- per month at the age of 6 to 12 years. The rate
of scholarship is doubled at the age of twelve years to
18/21 years. At the termination of the scheme at the
age of 18/21 years, the beneficiary gets lumpsum amount
of Rs.5000/- plus bonus accrued thereon; provided the parents
continue to follow the two child family norm and also the
child passes at least Matriculation.
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1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Beneficiaries |
6000 |
6000 |
6000 |
| Budget |
Rs.300.00
lac |
Rs.300.00
lac |
300.00
lacs (Proposed) |
Balika
Samridhi Yojna (Centrally Sponsored)
(Started on 2-10-1997)
Objective:
To raise the Social Status of the girls and to provide Nutrition
to the pregnant ladies at the time of delivery.
Benefit:
Under this scheme the mother of girl child belonging to
the families living below the poverty line is given Rs.500/-
for Nutrition and an amount of Rs.4500/- is invested in
the name of girl child.
A
sum of Rs.25.00 lac has been released by the Govt. of India
benefiting 3673 beneficiaries.
Free
travel facility to the women above the age of 60 years
(Started 1-1-1997)
Eligibility:
Women above the age of 60 years.
Domicile:
A permanent resident of Punjab.
Benefit:
Eligible to travel free in the Punjab Roadways and Pepsu
Road Transport through out the State.
Objective:
To increase mobility amongst women above the age of 60 years
to maintain their social interaction.
How
to apply: Eligible women can apply to the C.D.P.O of
their block on the prescribed form available free to cost
from the office of the C.D.P.O alongwith proof of age C.D.P.O
issues an Identity Card to the beneficiary.
Beneficiaries:
4,56,000 beneficiaries have been issued Identity Card.
| |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Budget |
100.00
lacs |
456.00
lacs (required)
for 1/3rd of the total number of passes
issued.) |
Punjab State Women Commission
(Started 1-1-1994)
Term:
4-2-1994 to 25-6-1996.
Objective:
To suggest local and progressive policies for the welfare
of women Protection of legal rights of women. To suggest
improvement in the existing schemes and laws for the welfare
of women & to suggest administrative reforms. To dispose
of complaints of women.
The
state Government is well aware of the problems of the women
and is actively considering to revive the Punjab State Women
Commission, which was disbanded on 26-6-1996, so that commission
can dispose of the cases pertaining to women as per law
and instructions.
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1996-97
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1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Budget
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6.48
lacs |
11.64
lacs |
10.49
lacs |
The
Persons with disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection
of rights and full participation) Act,1995
(Implementation January 1996)
The Persons with disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection
of rights and full participation) Act 1995
enacted by the Parliament has come into force from January,
1996.
Under
section 13 of the Act, a committee has been constituted
under the chairpersonship of Minister for Social Security
Women & Child Development. The first meeting of the
Committee was held on 9-3-1998. Under
section 19 of the Act, an executive committee has bee constituted
whose first meeting will be held on 2-4-1998. Under
section 50 of the Act, Director Social Security, Women &
Child Development has been declared as Competent Authority.
Under
section 60 of the Act, Director Social Security, Women &
Child Development has been appointed as Commissioner. A
High Power Committee has been constituted who would ensure
the implementation of the Act in the State as a whole and
will also monitor the progress of wok being done for the
welfare of the handicapped. The
rules are being framed under the Act, which will be enforced
shortly. The
instructions have been issued to Transport, Labour and employment,
Health & Family Welfare and Education Department for
implementation of the provision of the Act regarding facilities
to be provided by them in the said departments. The
State Government has also decided to set up a hospital at
the state level for the persons with severe disabilities
during the year 1998-99. As
per provisions of the Act, 3% posts have been reserved for
blinds, deaf and dumb and orthopeadically handicapped persons.
All out efforts are being made to fill the posts reserved
for handicapped in class I, II, II, & IV services. Against
the posts reserved for blinds, the department has sponsored
the names of 364 persons different departments and Districts
Administration out of which 193 have been given employment
as on 28.2.1998. The
retirement age has been enhanced from 58 years to 60 years
for blind.
Govt.
Institute for Blinds at Jamalpur, Ludhiana
Commissioned: 1968
Objective:
Free education, food and hostel facility to the blinds
upto 10th class.
Capacity:
65 students. There are 61 students in the institute
as on 28.2.98.
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1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Budget |
Rs.15.57
lac |
Rs.20.52
lac |
Rs.22.29
lac |
Braille
Press: The Government has also set up a Braille Press
and Talking library at the cost of Rs.212.00 lac for providing
books to the students in Braille.
| |
1996-97 |
1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Budget |
Rs.8.45
lacs |
Rs.11.20
lacs |
Rs.13.50
lacs (Proposed) |
It
has been declined to supply free books to the Blind Persons
upto the age of 18 years.
Vocational Rehabilitation Centers.
Set up : In 1996-97
Objective:
To impart training to the persons with disabilities in small
vocations like canning, candle making, soap making, sewing
embroidery, typing and shorthand etc. to enable them to
stand on their own feet.
Where:
i) A Vocational Rehabilitation Center for the handicapped
girls has been set up at the premises of Govt. Institute
for Blind, Jamalpur (Ludhiana) where 15 trainees are admitted.
ii)
A Vocational Rehabilitation Center for the handicapped boys
and girls has been set up at the Red Cross Bhawan, Bathinda,
where 12 trainees are admitted.
iii)
A Vocational Rehabilitation Center for the handicapped boys,
and girls has been set up at Ram Colony Camp, Hoshiarpur,
where 8 trainees are admitted.
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1997-98 |
1998-99 |
| Budget |
Rs.9.54
lac |
Rs.11.26
lac |
There
is a proposal for Regional Rehabilitation Centre for the
orthopaedically disabled handicapped persons at Bathinda.
Grant-in-aid
to Non-Government Organizations
The
State Government is also providing Grant-in-aid to non-Government
Organizations which are about 35 in number, working for
the welfare of children, women, handicapped and weaker section
of the society. A budget provision of Rs.46.12 lac as made
during the year 1997-98. Plan Budget for the yet 1998-99
yet not approved.
Contact
Information
Secretary Social Security and Women
& Child Development, Punjab
0172-2741189 (O)
0172-2742243 (PBX)
Director Social Security and Women & Child Development,
Punjab
0172-2602726 (O)
0172-2608746 (PBX)
0172-2664533 (Fax) |
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