MPPCS Mains Paper II B (Social Sector)

6. Social & Some Important Legislation:

6.1 Indian society, Social Legislation as an instrument of Social Change.
6.2 The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
6.3 Protection to Women Women Under Indian Constitution & Criminal Law (Under Indian Constitution Law and Criminal Procedure Code)
6.4 Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act-2005
6.5 The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955
6.6 The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989,
6.7 Right to Information Act, 2005,
6.8 Environment (Protection) Act, 1986,
6.9 The Consumer Protection Act, 1986,
6.10 Information Technology Act, 2000,
6.11 The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
6.12 The Madhya Pradesh Lok Sewaon ke Pradan ki Guarantee Adhiniyam- 2010

7- Social Sector - Health, Education & Empowerment -

7.1 Health services, Preventive and curative health programmes in India / M.P. with an emphasis on children and women's health. Issues related to availability of curative health to all. Availability of doctor & Paramedical staff. Health services in rural area.
7.2 Malnutrition,its causes and effects and Govt. programmes for supplementary Nutrition
7.3 The technological interventions in the field of Immunology, Immunization, Biotechnology, Family health, Communicable and non-communicable diseases and remedies.
7.4 Vital statistics of Birth and Death
7.5 W.H.O.-Objectives, Structures, functions and its programmes.

8- Education systems -

Education as a tool of HR development, Universal elementary education, Quality of Higher and Technical, Vocational Education. Issues related to girls education, under privileged classes and differently abled classes.

9- Human resource development -

Availability of skilled manpower, employability and productivity of human resource of India, trends of employment, role of institutions like NCHER,NCERT, NIEPA, UGC, Open Universities, AICTE,NCTE, NCVT, ICAR, IITs, NITs. NLUs, IIMs,Polytechnic and ITls etc. and human resource development.

10- Welfare programmes
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Welfare programmes and Issues related to - Aged people, Differently able people, Children, Women, Labour, Socially deprived Classes and Displaced groups of developmental projects.