Journal article
Social Policy, Social Welfare and Social Development-Pathak’s Ideas: A Critical Essay
Journal of Social Work, Vol.3(8), pp.171-182
2013
Abstract
Any discussion around India's Social Policy, Social Welfare and Social Development ought to be laid in the context of India's sixty years of planning history. In this critical essay, I explore the views and treatise of octogenarian Shankar Pathak on social welfare policies and development of the poor in India. In those sixty years of planning, India has certainly made strides, such as producing some billionaires that enter into who's who list compiled by Forbes, alongside its poor making world's record officially included into the top ten poor nations. India's situation can be aptly captured and surmised by borrowing the famous saying of American Political Economist "doing better but feeling worse" ( Wildavsky, 1977, pp105), this paper examines Pathak's (2013) views on social policy, welfare and social development in India and to an extent his views on social work profession in India.
Details
- Title
- Social Policy, Social Welfare and Social Development-Pathak’s Ideas: A Critical Essay
- Authors
- Venkat Pulla (Author) - Charles Sturt University
- Publication details
- Journal of Social Work, Vol.3(8), pp.171-182
- Publisher
- Niruta Publications
- Date published
- 2013
- ISSN
- 2230-8830
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2013 Niruta Publications. Reproduced here with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448847602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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