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{{Short description|Indian government ministry responsible for affirmative action}}{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox government agency
|seal = Emblem_of_India.svg
|seal_width = 70px
|seal_caption = [[Emblem of India]]
|jurisdiction = {{flagicon|India}}[[Republic of India]]
|headquarters = Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Shastri Bhawan, C-Wing, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road New Delhi,110011 [[New Delhi]]
|region_code = IN
|minister1_name = [[Virendra Kumar Khatik]]
|minister1_pfo = Cabinet Minister
|minister2_name = [[A. Narayanaswamy]]
|minister2_pfo = Minister of State
|minister3_name = [[Pratima Bhowmik]]
|minister3_pfo = Minister of State
|minister4_name = [[Ramdas Athawale]]
|minister4_pfo = Minister of State
|website = {{url|http://socialjustice.nic.in}}
|name=Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment|logo=|formed=|employees=|budget={{INRConvert|6908|c}} (2017-18 est.)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiabudget.gov.in/ub2018-19/eb/sbe95.pdf |title=Budget data |date=2019 |website=www.indiabudget.gov.in |format=PDF |access-date=15 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304170727/http://www.indiabudget.gov.in/ub2018-19/eb/sbe95.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>|chief1_name=|chief1_position=|chief2_name=|chief2_position=|chief3_name=|chief3_position=|chief4_name=|chief4_position=|chief5_name=|chief5_position=|chief6_name=|chief6_position=|chief7_name=|chief7_position=|chief8_name=|chief8_position=|chief9_name=|chief9_position=|parent_department=}}
The '''Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment '''is a [[Government of India]] [[Ministry (government department)|ministry]]. It is responsible for [[welfare]], [[social justice]] and [[empowerment]] of disadvantaged and marginalised sections of society, including [[scheduled castes]] (SC), [[Other Backward Class]]es (OBC), [[Transgender| trans-people]] and [[LGBT|LGBTQ people]], the [[Disability|disabled]], the [[elderly]], and the victims of [[drug abuse]].

The Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment holds [[Cabinet (government)|cabinet]] rank as a member of the [[Council of Ministers of the Republic of India|Council of Ministers]]. The current minister is [[Thawar Chand Gehlot]], who is assisted by a [[Minister of State]], [[Rattan Lal Kataria]], [[Krishan Pal Gujjar]] and [[Ramdas Athavale]].

==History==
In the 1985-1986, the former Ministry of Welfare was divided into the Department of Women and Child Development and the Department of Welfare. At the same time, the Scheduled Castes Development Division, Tribal Development Division and the Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare Division of the [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] and the [[Waqf|Wakf]] Division of the [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Ministry of Law]] left those ministries to form the new Ministry of Welfare.

The Ministry of Welfare adopted the name Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in May 1998. In October 1999, the Tribal Development Division left the ministry to become its own ministry, the [[Ministry of Tribal Affairs]]. In January 2007, the Minorities Division and the Wakf Unit were moved out of the ministry to form the [[Ministry of Minority Affairs]] and the Child Development Division left the ministry to form the [[Ministry of Women and Child Development]]. To propagate the ideologies and philosophy of [[Babu Jagjivan Ram]], the 'Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation', has been set up by the Ministry.<ref>{{cite web|title=A brief on Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation|url=http://www.socialjustice.nic.in/babujagjivanram.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619070115/http://socialjustice.nic.in/babujagjivanram.pdf|archive-date=19 June 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In 2012, the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment launched Oblindia, an online library for visually impaired college students. At launch, the library included 12,000 books in 10 languages.<ref>{{cite news |title=India's First Online Braille Library Launched |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/indias-first-online-braille-library-launched/746546 |access-date=2019-03-23 |date=2012-01-05}}</ref>

==Organisation==
The ministry has five [[Government agency|bureaus]], each headed by a Joint Secretary: Scheduled Castes Development Bureau; Backward Classes Bureau Coordination, Media, Administration; Disability Bureau; Social Defense (SD) Bureau; and Project, Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Bureau.

*'''Statutory Bodies'''
**Office of the [[Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities]], New Delhi
**[[National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities]]
**[[Rehabilitation Council of India]] (RCI)
*'''National Institutes'''
**[[Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped]], [[Mumbai]] (AYJNIHH)
**[[Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped]], [[New Delhi]] (formerly [[Institute for the Physically Handicapped]] (IPH))
**[[National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities]], [[Kolkata]]
**[[National Institute of Mentally Handicapped]], [[Secunderabad]] (NIMH)
**[[National Institute of Visually Handicapped]] (NIVH), Dehradun
**[[National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research]], [[Cuttack]] ([[NIRTAR]])
**[[National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities]] (NIEPMD), Chennai
**Indian Sign Language Research & Training Centre (ISLRTC)
*'''[[Public sector undertaking]]s'''
**[[National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation]] (NBCFDC)
**[[National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation]] (NHFDC)
**[[Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India]] (ALIMCO), [[Kanpur]]

'''*Composite Regional Centres for Persons with Disabilities (CRCs)'''

'''*Public Private Partnership
'''**Indian Spinal Injury Centre

==Legislation==
* [[Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007]]

== Ministers of Social Justice and Empowerment ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 700px"
! width="200px" |Name
! colspan="2" width="100px" |Tenure
! colspan=2|Political Party
!Prime Minister
|-
|[[Ashoke Kumar Sen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/759802/1/Council_of_Ministers_English.pdf|title=Council of Ministers}}</ref> ''(Minister of Social Security)''
|13 June 1964
|24 January 1966
|rowspan="7"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=7|
|rowspan="1"| [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]
|-
|[[Kotha Raghuramaiah]] ''(Minister in Department of Social Welfare)''
|24 January 1966
|25 March 1966
|rowspan="6"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
|[[Ashoka Mehta]] ''(Minister of Social Welfare)''
|25 March 1966
|22 August 1968
|-
|[[Panampilly Govinda Menon]]
|22 August 1968
|23 May 1970
|-
|[[K. Hanumanthaiya]]
|26 June 1970
|18 March 1971
|-
|[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]
|18 March 1971
|20 March 1972
|-
|[[S. Nurul Hasan]] ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|24 March 1972
|24 March 1977
|-
|[[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]
|26 March 1977
|28 July 1979
|rowspan=1|[[Janata Party]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Morarji Desai]]
|-
|[[Sathiavani Muthu]]
|19 August 1979
|23 December 1979
|rowspan=1|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|[[Charan Singh]]
|-
|[[S.B. Chavan]]
|19 October 1980
|08 August 1981
|rowspan="4"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=4|
|rowspan="1"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
|[[Sheila Kaul]] ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|08 August 1981
|31 December 1984
|rowspan="1"| [[Indira Gandhi]] [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
|[[Maragatham Chandrasekar]] ''(Ministry of Women and Social Welfare) '' ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|31 December 1984
|25 September 1985
|rowspan="2"|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
|[[Rajendra Kumari Bajpai]] ''(Minister of Welfare)'' ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|25 September 1985
|02 December 1989
|-
|[[Ram Vilas Paswan]]
|06 December 1989
|10 November 1990
|rowspan="1"| [[Janata Dal]] ([[National Front (India)|National Front]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Dal/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan="1"| [[V. P. Singh]]
|-
|[[Sitaram Kesri]]
|12 June 1991
|16 May 1996
|rowspan="1"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|rowspan="1"| [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|-
|[[Kariya Munda]]
|16 May 1996
|01 June 1996
|rowspan="1"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|rowspan="1"| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|-
|[[Balwant Singh Ramoowalia]]
|01 June 1996
|19 March 1998
|rowspan="1"|[[Independent politician|Independent]] ([[United Front (India)|United Front]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Independent/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|rowspan="1"|[[H. D. Deve Gowda]] [[I. K. Gujral]]
|-
|[[Maneka Gandhi]] ''(Minister of Welfare till 23 May 1998)'' ''(Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment)'' ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|19 March 1998
|01 September 2001
|rowspan="1"|[[Independent politician|Independent]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Independent/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|rowspan="2"| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|-
|[[Satyanarayan Jatiya]]
|01 September 2001
|22 May 2004
|rowspan="1"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|-
|[[Meira Kumar]]
|23 May 2004
|22 May 2009
|rowspan=4|[[Indian National Congress]] ([[United Progressive Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=4|
|rowspan="4" |[[Manmohan Singh]]
|-
|[[Mukul Wasnik]]
|28 May 2009
|27 October 2012
|-
|[[Kumari Selja]]
|28 October 2012
|28 January 2014
|-
|[[Mallikarjun Kharge]]
|28 January 2014
|26 May 2014
|-
|[[Thawar Chand Gehlot]]
|26 May 2014
|7 July 2021
|rowspan=2|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan="2" |[[Narendra Modi]]
|-
|[[Virendra Kumar Khatik]]
|7 July 2021
|
|}

== List of Ministers of State ==
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible style=" ;"sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Ministers of State of Social Justice and Empowerment
! [[Minister of state]]
! Portrait
! colspan=2| Political party
! colspan="2" | Term
! Days
|-align=center
|[[Sudarshan Bhagat]]
|[[File:Sudarshan Bhagat oath as Minister.jpg|100px]]
|Rowspan=3|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|Rowspan=3 bgcolor=FF9933|
|26 May 2014
|9 November 2014
|{{Age in days|2014|5|26|2014|11|9}} days
|-align=center
| [[Vijay Sampla]]
|[[File:The Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Vijay Sampla addressing at the “International Conference on Bodhi Dharma and Zen Buddhism”, in New Delhi on November 20, 2015.jpg|100px]]
|9 November 2014
|30 May 2019
|{{Age in days|2014|11|9|2019|05|30}} days
|-align=center
| [[Krishan Pal Gurjar]]
|[[File:Krishan Pal addressing at the inauguration of the “National Workshop on Autism Tools”, organised by the National Trust under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, in New Delhi.jpg|100px]]
|9 November 2014
|7 July 2021
|{{Age in days|2014|11|9|2021|07|07}} days
|-align=center
|[[Ramdas Athawale]]
|[[File:The Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Ramdas Athawale addressing a press conference, in New Delhi on November 24, 2017.jpg|200px]]
|[[Republican Party of India (Athawale)|Republican Party of India (A)]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|bgcolor=#000080|
|5 July 2016
|Incumbent
|{{Age in days|2016|07|05}} days
|-align=center
|[[Rattan Lal Kataria]]
|[[File:Shri Rattan Lal Kataria taking charge as the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|Rowspan=3|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|Rowspan=3 bgcolor=FF9933|
|30 May 2019
|07 July 2021
|{{Age in days|2019|5|30|2021|07|07}} days
|-align=center
|[[Pratima Bhoumik]]
|
|07 July 2021
|Incumbent
|{{Age in days|2021|07|07}} days
|-align=center
|[[A. Narayanaswamy]]
|
|07 July 2021
|Incumbent
|{{Age in days|2021|07|07}} days
|}

== See also ==
* [[Department of Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare (Tamil Nadu)]]
* [[Department of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare (Tamil Nadu)]]
* [[Department of Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme (Tamil Nadu)]]
* [[Reservation in India]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://socialjustice.nic.in/ Official website]

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