About Us - Organisational Set-up
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice & empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised section of the society viz, Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes, Persons with Disabilities, Aged Persons, and victims of Drug Abuse etc.
Basic objective of the policies, programmes, law and institution of the Indian welfare system is to bring the target groups into the main stream of development by making them self-reliant.
The Ministry is headed by Sh. Mukul Wasnik, Cabinet Minister and Sh. D. Napoleon is the Minister of State. Shri K. M. Acharya is the Secretary and Smt. Sangita Gairola is the Special Secretary of the Ministry.
The activities of the Ministry are under taken through Bureaus as shown below:
| S.No. | Bureau | Bureau Head |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | i. Social Defence Division (Senior Citizens, Victims of Substance Abuse & Rehabilitation of Beggars ii. Administration iii. Vigilance iv. Official Language Division | Shri T. R. Meena, Joint Secretary |
| 2. | i. Scheduled Castes Development Division ii. Parliament, Media iii. Member Secretary, Dr. Ambedkar Foundation | Shri Sanjeev Kumar, Joint Secretary |
| 3. | Backward Classes Division | Shri Partha Pratim Mitra, Joint Secretary |
| 4. | Disability Division | Shri Pankaj Joshi, Joint Secretary |
| 5. | i. PREM Division (Planning & Monitoring) ii. Coordination (including work relating to overall monitoring & coordination of the Ministry's PSUs and common issues pertaining to them)iii. Facilitation Centre (Public Grievances & RTI) | Dr. J.C.Sharma, Economic Advisor |
| 6. | PREM Division (Statistics, Research and Evaluation) | Shri Mukat Singh, Deputy Director General |
