New Name of Mental Retardation - Intellectual Developmental Disorder

 In the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the APA replaced “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder).”

Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992.

Mental Health Act, 1987.
 Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992.
The Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995.
National Trust Act, 1999.

Plantation Labour Act, 1951

Plantation Labour Act, 1951

Community Development Programs India

District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)     1993
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)     2000
Draught Prone Areas Programme (DPAP)     1973-74

Posco ACT 2012

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences. Act, 2012.

Time Line of Community and Rural Development Programme in India

Read the Time Line of Community and Rural Development Programme in India.

S.No.	Rural Development Programme	Year of Beginning	Objective/Description
1	Community Development Programme (CDP)	1952	Over-all development of rural areas with people's participation.
2	Rural Electrification Corporation	1969	Electrification in rural areas
3	Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme(ARWSP)	1972-73	For providing drinking water in villages
4	Crash Scheme for Rural Employment	1972-73	For rural employment
5	National Institution for Rural Development	1977	Training, investigation and advisory organization for rural development
6	National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)	1980	To provide profitable employment opportunities to the rural poor
7	Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA)	1982	To provide suitable opportunities of self-employment to the women belonging to the rural families who are living below the poverty line.
8	Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)	1983	For providing employment to landless farmers and laborers
9	National Fund for Rural Development (NFRD)	1984	To grant 100% tax rebate to donors and also to provide financial assistance for rural development projects.
10	Council for Advancement of People's Actions and Rural Technology (CAPART)	1986	To provide assistance for rural prosperity.
11	Service Area Account (SAA)	1988	A new credit policy for rural areas
12	Jawahar Rozgar Yojana	1989	For providing employment to rural unemployed.
13	Agriculture and Rural Debt Relief Scheme (ARDRS)	1990	To exempt bank loans upto Rs. 10,000 of rural artisans and weavers.
14	Supply of Improved Toolkits to Rural Artisans	1992	To supply modern toolkits to the rural craftsmen except the weavers , tailors , embroiders and tobacco laborers who are living below the poverty line.
15	District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)	1993	To provide financial assistance for rural development.
16	Mahila Samridhi Yojana	1993	To encourage the rural women to deposit in Post Office Saving Account.
17	Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana	1999	For eliminating rural poverty and unemployment and promoting self-employment.
18	Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana	2000	To fulfil basic requirements in rural areas.
19	Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)	2000	To line all vilages with pakka road
20	Bharat Nirman Program	2005	Development of Rural Infrastructure including six components : irrigation, Water supply, Housing, Road, Telephone and Electricity.
21	National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA)	2006	To provide atleast 100 days wage employment in rural areas.
22	Indira Awaas Yojana	1999	To help construction of new dwelling units as well as conversion of unserviceable kutcha houses into pucca/semi-pucca by members of SC/STs, freed bonded labourers and also non-SC/ST rural poor below the poverty line by extending them grant-in-aid.
23	National Livelihood Mission	2009-10	To reduce poverty among rural BPL by promoting diversified and gainful self-employment and wage employment opportunities which would lead to an appreciable increase in income on sustainable basis.
24	Pradhanmantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY)	2010	Integrated development of scheduled castes dominated villages in the country.
25	Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana	2001	To provide additional wage employment in the rural areas as also food security, along with the creation of durable community, social and economic infrastructure in rural areas.
26	Twenty Point Program	1975	Poverty eradication and and raising the standard of living.
27	Draught Prone Areas Programme (DPAP)	1973-74	To minimise the adverse effects of drought on production of crops and livestock and productivity of land, water and human resources ultimately leading to drought proofing of the affected areas.
28	Annapurna Scheme	2000	To ensure food security for all create a hunger  free  India in the next five years and to reform and improve the Public Distribution System so  as to serve the poorest of the poor in rural and urban areas.

Notes on UGC Social Work NET Exam

Kingsley Devis defined community as the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspects of social life

‘Power’ is gained whereas ‘authority’ is Vested.

The National policy on child labour was declared in the year 1987

The funding agency formed for fundraising and distributing the funds is called Community Chest.

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Headquarter:New York

World Trade Organization Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Headquarter:New York.

The UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes an annual Human Development Report (since 1990) to measure and analyse developmental progress.

World Summit on Social Development 1995

World Summit on Social Development was held in the year 1995 at Copenhagen.

Some important books on social work

Papers on Social Work – An Indian Perspective was written by G.R.Banerjee.

Social Group Work – A Helping Process by Konopka G.

Karl Pearson’s Correlation

In order to find the degree of relationships, we have to use a statistical test called Karl Pearson’s Correlation.

Operationalization of Variables in social work research means Making the variables measurable.