According to 2001 census, the disabled constitute 2.19 crore persons, constituting, thus, 2.13% of the total population of the country. "These include people with visual, hearing, speech, locomotors...
The Commission for the Scheduled Tribes, under Article 338, is supposed to supervise the welfare schemes for these people of central government posts 15% and 7.5% are reserved...
Scheduled Castes/Tribes'Issues and their Rights According to 2011 census, the Scheduled Castes population comprises 166,635,700 (16.2%) of the total population of India and the Scheduled Tribes population comprises...
To add life to the years that have added to life has been the crux of the UN 18 principles (1991), summed up in (I) Independence, (II) Participation,...
Some of the existing Child Protection Schemes and Programmes include: A Programme of Juvenile Justice for children in need of care and protection and children in conflict with...
Rights have been rightly described as those social claims without which no man can seek to be himself/herself at his/her best. "They belong to the individuals for the...
Nineteen percent of the world's children live in India, constituting 42 percent of India's total population. "The Ministry of Women and Child Development published a report on Child...
Swaran Singh Committee, in its recommendations (1976), suggested the inclusion of a separate chapter on fundamental duties in the Constitution. Following it, Part IVA with Article 51A was...
"The directive principles are, indeed, important, though some like Ivor Jennings may say that they do not matter. "They are really significant though they may have been haphazardly...
"There is much that has to be done with regard to the implementation of the Directive Principles, though much has already been done. "The Minimum Wages Act (1948),...
