Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Emblem of India.svg
Agency overview
JurisdictionIndiaRepublic of India
HeadquartersMinistry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Shastri Bhawan,
C-Wing,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road
New Delhi,110011
New Delhi
Annual budget6,908 crore (US$970 million) (2017-18 est.)[1]
Ministers responsible
Websitesocialjustice.nic.in

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.

*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)
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]

Ministers of State of Social Justice and Empowerment
Minister of state Portrait Political party Term Days
Sudarshan Bhagat Sudarshan Bhagat oath as Minister.jpg Bharatiya Janata Party
(National Democratic Alliance)
26 May 2014 9 November 2014 167 days
Vijay Sampla 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 9 November 2014 30 May 2019 1663 days
Krishan Pal Gurjar 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 9 November 2014 7 July 2021 2432 days
Ramdas Athawale The Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Ramdas Athawale addressing a press conference, in New Delhi on November 24, 2017.jpg Republican Party of India (A)
(National Democratic Alliance)
5 July 2016 Incumbent 2773 days
Rattan Lal Kataria Shri Rattan Lal Kataria taking charge as the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg Bharatiya Janata Party
(National Democratic Alliance)
30 May 2019 07 July 2021 769 days
Pratima Bhoumik 07 July 2021 Incumbent 945 days
A. Narayanaswamy 07 July 2021 Incumbent 945 days

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "Budget data" (PDF). www.indiabudget.gov.in. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  2. "A brief on Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2009.
  3. "India's First Online Braille Library Launched". 5 January 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  4. "Council of Ministers" (PDF).

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