The Central Social Welfare Board of India is an autonomous body established in 1953 by the Government of India to promote social welfare activities and implement welfare programs for women, children, and the handicapped. It is headed by a Chairperson and composed of a 56-member General Body and 16-member Executive Committee that includes representatives from state social welfare boards and various government ministries. The Board aims to empower vulnerable groups, strengthen voluntary organizations, and generate awareness of social issues impacting women and children. It provides grants and subsidies to NGOs operating programs in areas like vocational training, family welfare, shelters, and nutrition.

1. CENTRAL SOCIAL WELFARE
BOARD OF INDIA
PREPARED BY,
APARNA.S.S
IV BSc.(N)
SSNMM College of Nursing,
Varkala.

3. • CSWB is an autonomous body ,under the control of
Ministry of Education.
• Setup by the Government of India on 13th August ,1953.
• State Social Welfare Board setup in 1954.
• Registered under Section 25 of the Indian Companies
Act,1956.
• Obtained its legal status in 1969.
• Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh was the founder chairperson .
• Initiative of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

4. CSWB LOGO

5. • To raise the awareness about legal and human
rights of women and girl child and to run
campaigns against social evils affecting them.
• Promoting social welfare activities and
implementing welfare programmes for women,
children and the handicapped through voluntary
organizations.

6. The Board must
• Act as a change maker with humanitarian
approach by reinforcing the spirit of voluntarism
• Create an enabling mechanism to facilitate
networking of committed social workers for the
empowerment of women and children.
• Develop a group of sensitive professionals with a
gender centric vision committed to equity ,justice
and social change.

7. • Strengthens voluntary organizations.
• Initiate and strengthen its monitoring role to
act as a social audit and guide for the
voluntary sectors so as to access government
funds as resource.
• Generate awareness about the challenges of
society in transition where negative use of
technologies and practices are impacting on
the wellbeing of women and children.

8. • The board is headed by a chairperson.
• The board has 56 member general body and 16
member executive committee.
• The composition of the general body and
executive committee;
General body
• Headed by the chairperson of the central social
welfare board.
• Consists of all chairpersons of the state social
welfare boards.

9. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

10. • Five (5) professionals,one each from
law,medicine,nutrition,social work,education and
social development.
• Three (3) eminent social workers representatives
of government of India from ministryof women
and child development,health and family
welfare,finance,NITI Aayog etc., and two(2)
members from Lok Sabha and one (1) from Rajya
Sabha and executive director ,CSWB.

11. Executive committee
• The executive committee is headed by the chairperson
of the central social welfare board.
• Chairpersons of five (5) state social welfare boards
including one (1) from union territory,state
board,Maharashtra ,Karnataka,Assam,Rajasthan and
Andaman and Nicobar islands.
• One representative each from ministry of women and
child development, rural development,finance,health
and family welfare education.
• Two (2) professionals from the general body.

12. • To survey the needs and requirements of
social welfare organizations.
• To promote the setting up of social welfare
institutions in remote areas.
• To promote programme of training and
organize the pilot projects in social work
• To subsidies hostels for working women and
blind.

13. • To give grants-in-aid to voluntary institutions
and NGO’s providing welfare service to
vulnerable sections of the society.
• To coordinate assistance extended to welfare
agencies by union and state governments.

14. • Running of rehabilitation centres and cooperative societies for
destitute, widows , orphans and deserted women and children.
• Educating and training woman to acquire vocational skills to
become employable.
• Organizing family welfare camps to promote small family norm
through opinion leads.
• Promoting hostels for working women of low income groups with
adequate security
• Operating urban welfare centers in towns for recreational activities
and learning programmes for women and children.
• Supplying nutritional supplementary diet and tonics to
malnourished mothers and children below 5 years through balwadis
and day care centres