ifda dossier 74 - Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

India: Some SLARTC activities in 1988
From the 1988 Repor/ of /~c/i~Yties of tin' Socio-I,vl Aid Rt~.siwrcli & kinin"
Workshops. - Awareness building being an
niportiint activity of SI,ARTC, one day or
two days workshops on Women and Law
have been arranged in different places of
Wcst l3eng:il. Duringl9S8 in all ten such
workshops were held in the districts of
Midnapore. 1Ho'~raIi. Murishidal~ad and 24-
I'araganas (South). Total number of participants
in these workshops \v;is 1000. More
tliiin 80% pi'irlicipants were feii1;ile. All
togelher representatives of 104 social wellare/runil
development organisations participated
in the workshops.
Vuliiittur\' Organisations and the 1.a~. - Like
previous yeai-S, a three 1i;iys workshop on
Voluntary Organisations and the I.aw was
orgiiniscd in C;ilcutt;i in May 1988. There
were piii-tieip:ints representing 43 orgiinisations/institutions.
The subjects included
procedures for registration of a society/trust
and report and returns to be submitted
under the act; professional t;ix us applicable
to employees of voluntary organisations;
FCRA Act; Income .I'm Act and Rules as
applicable to voluiitn~y organisations and
trust bodies; form:ition of cooperatives;
procedures for opening of bank accounts
for voluntary organisations and also project
pbnning and evaluation mctliods.
Child Ahiise (t ATe~lect. - The problem of
child abuse and neglect is growing day by
day. Keeping this in view, SLARTC organised
a 4-days National Seminar on this
topic in Calcutta. The main theme was legal
protection :nul social security of neglected
and abandoned children. There were 51
participants from 29 organistitions/iiistitulions.
The topics discussed at different
sessions included (1) working children: (2)
sexual exploitation of cliikiren; (3) han-
dicapped and mentally retarded children;
(4) neglected children; (5) abandoned
children: (fa) juvenile delinquents: and (7)
girl child.
Street Children & Shun Children. - A workshop
on Street C/~/lc/reti and Slum Cliilclren:
lxpl Protection and Social Sceuri? wiis
organised in collaboration with the Institute
of Urban Management, CMC Calcutta. "Die
workshop tried to look at the basic needs
ol the street children iind sluni children viz..
need for nutrition programme; liealth and
sanitation programme, educational facilities
and vocational training programme; rccreatioiiiil
facilities, the program of ragpickers
and working children and voluntary efforts
for the welfare of street childrcn and slum
children. It was participated by 60 persons
representing 35 organisationslinstitutions.
Course on "Women's Development". - Our
courses on Women's I)evelopment (Women
Studies) have a great demand from the
women social workers associated with
different voluntary agencies especially
women's organisations. They come from all
over Eastern & North Eastern India as well
as liangliidesh. This is a residential course
for about 3 to 4 weeks. The course syllabus
covers existing laws in India and Bangladesh
relating to women. The other topics included
equality concept and present situation;
women in the unorganised sector;
women and the media; women and education:
women and health: women crime and
women prisoners; problems and f:icilitics
available to aged women; problen~s of rural
women; vocational training and employment
opportunities tor women; socially neglected
women dc. 50 participants from diflcrent
parts of West Bengal and also from Uiliar,