About Us - Organisational Set-up
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice & empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised section of the society viz, Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes, Persons with Disabilities, Aged Persons, and victims of Drug Abuse etc.
Basic objective of the policies, programmes, law and institution of the Indian welfare system is to bring the target groups into the main stream of development by making them self-reliant.
The Ministry is headed by Sh. Mukul Wasnik, Cabinet Minister and Sh. D. Napoleon is the Minister of State. Shri K. M. Acharya is the Secretary and Smt. Sangita Gairola is the Additional Secretary of the Ministry.
The activities of the Ministry are under taken through Bureaus as shown below:
| S.No. | Bureau | Bureau Head |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Scheduled Castes Development, Media, Parliament and Dr. Ambedkar Foundation | Shri Sanjeev Kumar, Joint Secretary |
| 2. | Backward Classes, Administration and Official Language | Shri P.P.Mitra, Joint Secretary |
| 3. | Disability Bureau, Vigilance and Narmda Control Authority | Dr. Arbind Prasad, Joint Secretary |
| 4. | Social Defence | Smt Purnima Singh, Joint Secretary |
| 5. | Planning, Research, Evaluation & Monitoring and Coordination | Dr. J.C.Sharma, Economic Advisor |
| 6. | Planning, Research, Evaluation & Monitoring (Statistics, Research and Evaluation) | Shri S.Maitra, Deputy Director General |
