R.B.S. Verma
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This book consists of a detailed analysis of the terms social welfare, administration and social administration regarding their conceptual classification, models, approaches, functions etc. followed by detailed description and analysis of different dimensions of social administration i.e. social policy, planning and decision making, organizing, staffing, directing, budgeting, controlling, and project formulation. The book also encompasses administration in ...
The well-researched essays on inclusive development in Indian society delve into the meaning of inclusive development and evolution of the concept. With an overview of inclusive development in post-independence India, they explore the systems in place and mechanisms to facilitate inclusive development. They examine issues relating to food security, the spread of poverty, promotion of health, employment-related problems, education, and development of women, ...
Outcome of the written contributions and deliberations of a national seminar, this is perhaps the most outstanding book on the theme of empowerment of the weaker sections in India. Organized in three sections, it provides authoritative treatment of the concept of empowerment and its relationship with the profession of Social Work, characteristics, concerns and contributions of the civil society organizations, and the commitment and response from the government ...
This collection of essays grew out of dissatisfaction with the tone and tenor of public discourse on the women's problematic in India, in particular by the feminists leading the women's movement. While this long drawn out debate has been critical of society and the state in general and entrenched culture of patriarchy in particular, it has not directly addressed the basic question: how have some sections of the women's movement itself collaborated with the ...
Tremendous changes have been recorded in the nature and intensity of the problems now being encountered by different segments of women in different socio-economic-cultural locales of the country. A paradigm shift is therefore needed in the approach and methodology empowering them. A vital pre-requisite to do so is to map out the transformed empowerment tasks. However, this is what is lacking in most exercises attempting situation analysis, identification of the ...
This collection of 21 papers is third volume in the three volume series on women's empowerment in India. Contributors include some of the best names in women's studies. This volume assesses the contemporary state of the art of study of women's problematic in India. This assessment is arranged on ten major themes: disaggregating women as a category; women's specific problems; health; education; women, work and workplace; women in new work areas; treatment of the ...