Social Welfare Department

The Social Welfare Department is an important branch of the Government of India and state governments, whose primary objective is to provide social security and economic support to the vulnerable, disadvantaged, and backward sections of society.

The Social Welfare Department’s function is to establish equality in society and bring into the mainstream those who have been marginalized due to various reasons—such as poverty, illiteracy, physical disability, or social discrimination.

This department runs various schemes specifically for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), the disabled, the elderly, and women.

Objectives:-

Social and economic upliftment of the weaker sections of society
Promoting education (through scholarships)
Providing financial assistance and security to the needy
Providing equal opportunities
Establishing social justice and equality in society

Official Details:-

For any questions or information, contact the relevant officer in the table below:

For any issues or information, the concerned official listed in the table below may be contacted:-

S. No.	Designation	Level	Phone Number	Email ID
1	District Social Welfare Officer	District Level	9151935263	dswbagpat@dirsamajkalyan.in

Schemes run by Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare Department and related website (portal):-

S.No	Name of Scheme	Related Website(Portal)	Objectives
1	Scholarship Scheme	https://scholarship.up.gov.in	Fee reimbursement Assistance for books and study expenses.
2	Old Age Pension Scheme	https://sspy-up.gov.in	To provide financial security, social respect and self-reliance to poor and helpless elderly people above 60 years of age.
3	Marriage Grant Scheme	https://shadianudan.upsdc.gov.in	Financial assistance for the marriage of daughters of poor families.
4	Chief Minister’s Mass Marriage Scheme	https://cmsvy.upsdc.gov.in	Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mass Marriage Scheme has been started to help in the marriage of daughters of economically weaker families and remarriage of widow/abandoned/divorced women.
5	Chief Minister’s Abhyudaya Scheme	https://abhyudayup.in/	It is a free coaching initiative that provides guidance to meritorious but economically weak students for competitive exams like UPSC, UPPSC, NEET, JEE, NDA, CDS.
6	Scheduled Caste Atrocities Relief Scheme	14566	Under the financial assistance, compensation is given to persons belonging to Scheduled Castes suffering from atrocities depending on the severity of the cases.
7	National Family Benefit Scheme	https://nfbs.upsdc.gov.in/	A one-time financial assistance of ₹30,000 is to help poor families whose main breadwinner dies.
8	Grant-in-Aid Schools	https://anudanitprathmikvidyalayaswd.upsdc.gov.in/	To provide educational opportunities to children from historically disadvantaged and educationally backward classes, especially Scheduled Castes, who were deprived of education due to social inequalities and the practice of untouchability in the pre-independence period.

For more information related to the schemes, click on the link:– Information about the schemes