The Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) is a key organization for social welfare in India. It has 51 members and aims to empower women and children. The CSWB provides grants to NGOs, runs rehabilitation centers, and educates women. It also aims to promote small families and provide services like hostels and nutrition programs. The CSWB must strengthen voluntary organizations, create networking opportunities, and raise awareness of issues impacting women and children. It has a General Body of 56 members and an Executive Committee of 16 members that includes representatives from state governments and central ministries.
2. INTRODUCTION
CSWB
• Key organisation in the field of social welfare in India
• comprises of a 51 member body
• a full time chair person and members from all states and
union territories…
• Jawahar Lal Nehru, Pt. Govind Vallabh Pant and Sh. C.D.
Deshmukh
• Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh
3. • Developing a healthy partnership with Voluntary Organizations for the
welfare, development and empowerment of women in our society has
been one of the primary objectives of the CSWB
4. MISSION
• As a National Organisation, strive to be recognized as the
most progressive entity for providing services of
unequivocal excellence to women and children for their
protection, capacity building and total empowerment. To
raise awareness about the legal and human rights of
women and girl child and to run campaigns against social
evils affecting them.
5. FUNCTIONS
• (1) To survey the need and requirements of social welfare
organisations.
• (2) To promote the setting up of social welfare institutions in
remote areas.
• (3) To promote programmes of training and organize pilot projects
in social work.
• (4) To subsidies hostels for working women and the blind.
• (5) To give grants-in-aid to voluntary institutions and NGOs
providing welfare service to vulnerable sections of society.
• (6) To coordinate assistance extended to welfare agencies by
Union and state governments.
6. SOME OF THESE WELFARE
ACTIVITIES OF THE TARGET GROUPS
ARE:
• (1) Running of rehabilitation centres and cooperative societies
for destitute, widows, orphans and deserted women and
children.
• (2) Educating and training women to acquire vocational skills
to become employable.
• (3) Organising family welfare camps to promote small family
norm through opinion leads.
7. • (4) Providing hostels for working women of low income
groups with adequate security.
• (5) Operating urban welfare centres in towns for recreational
activities and learning programmes for women and children.
• (6) Supplying nutritional supplementary diet and tonics to
malnourished mothers and children below 5 years through
balwadis and day care centres.
8. (OBJECTIVES)
THE BOARD MUST
• Act as a change maker with a humanitarian approach by
reinforcing the spirit of voluntarism.
• Create an enabling mechanism to facilitate networking of
committed social workers for the empowerment of women and
children.
• Develop a cadre of sensitive professionals with a gender
centric vision committed to equity, justice and social change.
• Recommend gender specific policy initiatives to meet the new
challenges for women and children in emerging areas.
9. (OBJECTIVES)
THE BOARD MUST
• Strengthen voluntary organizations and expand coverage of
‘engendered’ schemes in areas where they have not yet
reached.
• Initiate and strengthen its monitoring role to act as social
audit and guide for the voluntary sector so as to access
Government funds as resource.
• Generate awareness about the challenges of a society in
transition where negative use of technologies and
practices are impacting on the wellbeing of women and children.
10. CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY FOR
ASSISTANCE
• It should be registered under an appropriate Act or be a regularly
constituted branch of a registered welfare organization (mere affiliation
to a registered body will not suffice for this purpose).
• Office bearers of the institution should not be related to each other.
• It should have a properly constituted Managing Committee with its
powers, duties and responsibility clearly defined and laid down in a
written constitution.
• It should have facilities, resources, personnel, managerial skill and
experience to initiate the activity for which the grant is required.
11. • Its financial position should be sound and it should be in a position to
raise such additional funds, as may be required, to complete the
program for which assistance is given by the Board and in addition,
where necessary, to continue to maintain the existing level of services
from its own resources.
• The activities of the institution should be open to all citizens of India
without any distinctions of religion, race, caste or language. Apart from
the above conditions, there are other conditions of eligibility applicable
for specific schemes of assistance which are detailed in the relevant
sections pertaining to the schemes on succeeding pages.
12. CNTD….
The organization should have completed at least 2 years after
registration in order to be eligible for grants from the Board under any
scheme, except in the scheme of Family Counselling Centers where
completion of 3 years after registration is required. Relaxation may
however, be made
(i) in case of institutions in hilly, remote, border and backward or tribal
areas
13. • (ii) in case of those institutions which provide specialized services where
these are not available
• (iii) in case where the need for starting an altogether new service is
recognized. This requirement does not apply to branches which have been
started by well-established national/state level organizations in remote and
needy areas.
14. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
The Board has a 56 member General Body and a 16 member Executive Committee. The
composition of the General Body and Executive Committee are as follows:-
General Body
• Chairperson, CSWB
• All Chairpersons of State Social Welfare Boards, (33)
• Representatives from the Parliament; two from Lok Sabha and One from Rajya Sabha.
• Five Professionals (one each from Law, Medicine, Social Work, Education and Social
Development and Nutrition)
• Three eminent persons with extensive experience of social work.
15. • Representatives from Ministries/Departments (of the rank of Joint
Secretory) of the Government of India - Ministry of Women and Child
Development, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare, Ministry of HRD, Department of Secondary and Higher
Education, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of
Labor and Employment, Ministry of Finance, Department of
Expenditure, Planning Commission, Financial Adviser, Ministry of
Women and Child Development
• Executive Director, Central Social Welfare Board.
16. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Chairperson, CSWB
• Chairperson of State/Union territories State Social Welfare Boards; -
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Assam, Rajasthan, A&N Islands
• Representatives of Ministries/Department of Government of India (of the
level of JS) - Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health &
Family Welfare, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Finance, Ministry
of HRD, D/o Secondary & Higher Education, Ministry of Social Justice &
Empowerment, Financial Advisor, Ministry of Women and Child Development
• Two Professionals
• Executive Director, CSWB.
17.
18. CONCLUSIONS
• Over the years, the Board has been steadily evolving into a mature
instrument of social change that has its anchor in the changing realities of
our society. In order to maintain the topicality of its schemes and
programmes and to remain responsive to the needs of society, the Board has
been revamping and redesigning or formulating programmes that best fulfil
emerging requirements.
19. REFERENCES
• Class notes of first semester “HPSW”2015.
• WWW.cswb.govt.in
• http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/india-2/central-social-welfare-board-functions-and-
activities/46739/
• https://india.gov.in/official-website-central-social-welfare-board
