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Critically evaluate the child welfare programmes in India. Have they benefited all sections of children in India.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

India built the world's largest child welfare apparatus on the premise that childhood is a public responsibility. Yet welfare is delivered into a society stratified by caste, tribe, gender, region and class, and it is absorbed unevenly. The programmes have raised the floor for children as a category; they have not equalised childhood.

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