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Environmental
social service including personal hygiene, sanitation, home nursing, child care,
care of the sick, sewing and tailoring etc.
During the current financial
year universities, State Govern- ments, the ational Cadet Corps of the Ministry
of Defence and voluntary organisations, of which the most important are the
Bharat Sevak Samaj and the Bharat Scouts and Guides, organised
a large number of camps of different types all over the country. During the
period between 1st April, and 31st December, 1958 a sum of Rs. 32.78 lakhs was
sanctioned for holding 1,762 camps with a total strength of 1,38,987 campers.
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SECOND
FIVE YEAR PLAN
30. Young men and women and students from colleges and
schools are taking an increasing share in the tasks of national development. The
first five year plan made a special provision for youth camps and labour
services. Up to October 1955, at the instance of the Ministry of Education 795
youth camps had been organised in which 66,000 persons participated. These camps
create a sense of dignity in manual labour, provide new interests and bring
together different sections of the community. Valuable work has been done by the
National Cadet Corps which has now a strength of 46,000 in its senior division,
64,000 in the junior division anti 8,000 in the girls division besides 3,000
teachers and others drawn from educational institutions. The Auxiliary Cadet
Corps has now a strength of 750,000. The Bharat Scouts and Guides have a
membership of 438,405 scouts and 61,118 guides which represents an increase of
50 per cent since the beginning of the first plan. The Bharat Sevak
Samaj has organised nearly 500 youth and students camps in which about
40,000 youth and students have taken part. All these organisations have
ambitious programmes of development for the second five year plan. Youth and
students have a unique contribution to make to the building of the nation and it
is the aim of the plan to give them growing opportunities of service and
participation.
31. In connection with the formulation of the second five
year plan, an effort has been recently initiated to secure the close association
of teachers and students with work in the field of planning. At the suggestion
of the Planning Commission, planning forums have been formed in a number of
universities and colleges to enable teachers and students to consider problems
relating to national development and to send their suggestions to the Planning
Commission, State Governments and local bodies. It is hoped that in due course
such forums or associations will be formed in all universities and other
educational institutions. By disseminating information and creating a more
widespread under-standing of national, state and local plans and in organizing
voluntary work or development projects, planning forums will provide valuable
opportunities to teachers and students to contribute to the success of the
second five year plan.
32. As a non-political and non-official organisation
set up in pursuance of the first five year plan, the Bharat Sevak
Samaj has served as a national platform for constructive work. It has
now 31 Pradesh branches and 229 district branches, besides branches in tahsil or
taluka towns and in villages. The total membership of persons who have agreed to
give five hours of social service during the week now runs to 50,000. In
addition to a small number of whole-time employees, the Bharat Sevak
Samaj has been able to attract a number of retired and experienced
public servants for its programme of work, which now includes social education,
health and sanitation, labour cooperatives, work centres, youth and student
camps, information centres and cultural activities. Besides implementing its own
programmes, the Bharat Sevak Samaj also works in association
with other social service organisations. Five of its branches are running
welfare extension projects under the schemes of the Central Social Welfare
Board. Special arrangements have been made for training camp leaders. Some of
the camps have been organised on behalf of education departments and university
authorities. A youth organisation named the Bharat Yuvak Samaj has been recently
sponsored by the Samaj. Among activities undertaken by the Bharat Sevak
Samaj, mention may be made of the construction of 16 1/2 miles of
embankment at the Kosi project work on the Jumna bund, establishment of
cooperative societies, assistance in the small savings movement and
participation in local development works.
33. Many of the basic ideas of
Gandhiji have become part of the national heritage. Methods and techniques which
he and those associated with him in constructive work developed over many years
have been found to be of great value of working rural programmes. The tradition
of service which they embodied and their emphasis on village
reconstruction.
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PUBLIC
COOPERATION IN THE FIRST TWO PLANS
9. It was realised at the time of the
formulation of the First Five Year Plan that for rapid progress public
cooperation will have to be enlisted on a very large scale in every aspect of
development The Bharat Sevak Samaj was formed to provide a
common platform with the object of drawing out the available unused time and
energy of the people and directing them into various fields of social and
economic activity. The Samaj has adopted a comprehensive programme and has
branches all over the country. It has a large cadre of trained workers. Its
association with the Kosi project during 1955-59 has brought forth evidence of
the large possibilities of reducing cost, improving quality of performance and
speeding up completion of various projects through public participation. Against
the original estimates of Rs. 11.5 crores, the actual expenditure on the Kosi
embankment scheme came down to Rs. 6.5 crores. The work was completed in 1958
against target date of 1960, i.e. 2 years in advance. The Samaj has taken part
on a smaller scale in the construction of several other irrigation and flood
protection projects. Encouraged by its experience it has set up a Construction
Service with branches in several States. It has undertaken construction of a
variety of public works. The Organisation of works camps for students and youth
of the country in connection with the Labour and Social Service Camps scheme of
the Ministry of Education has become a major activity of the Samaj in which the
contribution of the people is becoming available in an increasing measure. A
specific approach has now been worked out in respect of activities in the rural
areas. A group of villages is selected as the field of activity of two or three
trained social workers whose task it is to develop, in an integrated manner,
people's programmes on the basis of a plan for the area. The Lok Karya Kshetra
aims at developing new resources for the area and creating local leadership.
This programme receives assistance from the State and is now being shared by
other voluntary organisations. To create social awakening and disseminate
information about the problems of the country and the various Plan programmes,
the Samaj has set up Jan Jagran (social enlightenment) centres. This is an
assisted activity which is now becoming an integral part of the Lok Karya
Kshetra programme. In the urban areas, the Samaj has given special attention to
the problems of the slum-dwellers and has been running a number of night
shelters for the homeless.
THIRD FIVE YEAR PLAN
members of this Committee are All
India Cooperative Union, All India Women's Conference, Bharat Sadhu Samaj,
Bharat Scouts and Guides, Bharat Sevak Samaj, Bharatiya Adim
Jati Sangh, Bharatiya Grameen Mahila Sangh, Central Social Welfare Board, Gandhi
Samarak Nidhi, Harijan Sevak Sangh, Indian Conference of Social Work, Indian
Council for Child Welfare, Indian Red Cross Society, National Cadet Corps and
Auxiliary Cadet Corps and Sarva Seva Sangh.
13. Construction.-Construction
activity in the bigger projects as well as smaller and local works will remain
the largest avenue for voluntary effort towards the utilisation of idle
manpower. In villages, voluntary agencies will be encouraged and helped to take
up construction work directly or through labour cooperatives. This will lead to
reduction of cost, observance of satisfactory standards of work, a better deal
for the construction workers and the promotion of honest dealings in the working
of the construction industry. Excessive dependence on contractors will be
avoided and additional resources will become available for the programmes of the
voluntary organisations. A Committee set up in the Planning Commission has made
the following recommendations to enable the voluntary organisations like the
Bharat Sevak Samaj to undertake construction work on a large
scale :
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(viii) The upper age limit will be relaxed in the case of
ex-employees of the Bharat Sevak Samaj engaged for the
execution of any Scheme financed by the State or Central Government to the
extent of their service in the Samaj provided they are otherwise qualified and
provided further they shall not have passed 40 years of age on the Ist day of
January of the year in which applications are invited. Such candidates shall
produce along with their application a certificate obtained from the Pradesh
Chairman of the Samaj stating that they had been appointed for the execution of
the scheme mentioned above, as and when required by the Commission.
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