Social Work Perspective on Depressed Class Population

Though India has been number second in terms of population in the world, there are many aspects which make it vulnerable. Socio-economic issues pertaining to Indian population do reveal many multifarious vulnerability. Demographic indicators also give us frightening score. People living below poverty line do catch special attention. The plight of millions of landless agriculture and unorganized labourers speak fire and tell agonizing stories of human exploitations and injustice. Though the Scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes, population form majority, yet they have received very negligible share of developmental fruits. Policy and programmes which have been designed, formulated and implemented to comply constitutional provisions have yet to achieve the goals of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Social work and social justice for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe, children, women, marginal farmers and other backward classes have become the most relevant at the dawn of new century and millennium which holds the rationale of our academic attempt in the form of this book.