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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
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| Agency overview | |
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| Jurisdiction |  Republic of India |
| Headquarters | Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Shastri Bhawan, C-Wing, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road New Delhi,110011 New Delhi |
| Annual budget | ₹6,908 crore (US$970 million) (2017-18 est.)[1] |
| Ministers responsible |
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| Website | socialjustice |
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is a Government of India ministry. It is responsible for welfare, social justice and empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised sections of society, including scheduled castes (SC), Other Backward Classes (OBC), trans-people and LGBTQ people, the disabled, the elderly, and the victims of drug abuse.
The Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment holds cabinet rank as a member of the 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[edit]
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 and the Wakf Division of the 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.[2]
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.[3]
Organisation[edit]
The ministry has five 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
- 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 undertakings
*Composite Regional Centres for Persons with Disabilities (CRCs)
*Public Private Partnership **Indian Spinal Injury Centre
Legislation[edit]
Ministers of Social Justice and Empowerment[edit]
| Name | Tenure | Political Party | Prime Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashoke Kumar Sen[4] (Minister of Social Security) |
13 June 1964 | 24 January 1966 | Indian National Congress | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |
| Kotha Raghuramaiah (Minister in Department of Social Welfare) |
24 January 1966 | 25 March 1966 | 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 | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | |
| Sathiavani Muthu | 19 August 1979 | 23 December 1979 | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Charan Singh | |
| S.B. Chavan | 19 October 1980 | 08 August 1981 | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | |
| Sheila Kaul (MoS, Independent Charge) |
08 August 1981 | 31 December 1984 | Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi | ||
| Maragatham Chandrasekar (Ministry of Women and Social Welfare) (MoS, Independent Charge) |
31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | 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 | Janata Dal (National Front) |
V. P. Singh | |
| Sitaram Kesri | 12 June 1991 | 16 May 1996 | Indian National Congress | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| Kariya Munda | 16 May 1996 | 01 June 1996 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| Balwant Singh Ramoowalia | 01 June 1996 | 19 March 1998 | Independent (United Front) |
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 | Independent (National Democratic Alliance) |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| Satyanarayan Jatiya | 01 September 2001 | 22 May 2004 | Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
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| Meira Kumar | 23 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance) |
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 | Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
Narendra Modi | |
| Virendra Kumar Khatik | 7 July 2021 | ||||
List of Ministers of State[edit]
| Minister of state | Portrait | Political party | Term | Days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudarshan Bhagat | 
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Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | 167 days | |
| Vijay Sampla | 
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9 November 2014 | 30 May 2019 | 1663 days | ||
| Krishan Pal Gurjar | 
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9 November 2014 | 7 July 2021 | 2432 days | ||
| Ramdas Athawale | 
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Republican Party of India (A) (National Democratic Alliance) |
5 July 2016 | Incumbent | 3074 days | |
| Rattan Lal Kataria | .jpg)
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Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
30 May 2019 | 07 July 2021 | 769 days | |
| Pratima Bhoumik | 07 July 2021 | Incumbent | 1246 days | |||
| A. Narayanaswamy | 07 July 2021 | Incumbent | 1246 days | |||
See also[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ↑ "Budget data" (PDF). www.indiabudget.gov.in. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ↑ "A brief on Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2009.
- ↑ "India's First Online Braille Library Launched". 5 January 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
- ↑ "Council of Ministers" (PDF).