Synopsis The tap-root of social welfare in India is to ameliorate poverty, unemployment, upliftment of handicapped and deprived persons and in providing education, medical and health care for all citizens of our society. The book analyses in depth the various problems associated with the public and private social welfare agencies and in services and resources for practice of social work in the field of economic security, agencies for juvenile and adult offenders, and in the field of medical and health care and development of trends in social work. Social welfare with emphasis on human development, social development; and welfare of family, society and community as a whole, has been discussed in the book.