FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL DEFENCE - Part II
1. INTRODUCTION
The mandate of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is the welfare and empowerment of the following target groups / areas:
- Schedule Castes (SC)
- Other Backward Classes (OBC)
- Persons with disabilities
- Victims of substance (Drug) abuse
- Senior citizens / older persons
- Social security save to the extent allotted to any other Department.
For the above mentioned target groups, the Ministry implements a number of schemes. Voluntary organizations play an important role in implementation of quite a few of these schemes.
However, the Ministry sometimes has to step in to meet unforeseen circumstances and needs, which are not covered by its existing schemes. Since these relate to several types of problem areas not easy to predict, it is not possible to have a separate specific scheme for each problem. There are also some problems relating to social security / defence which are of an inter-state character and therefore cannot be effectively tackled by one State.
The above type of problems lend themselves to effective action through voluntary effort rather than administrative or legislative action. The 'Scheme of Financial Assistance in the Field of Social Defence' aims to meet such need which fall within the over-all mandate of the Ministry. It is not meant to overlap with the existing grant-in-aid schemes but to supplement them.
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