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Social Welfare Activities: Various Activities in Edaicode Town Panchayat

The document summarizes various social welfare activities in the Edaicode town panchayat, including self-help groups, a football club, a milk society, and government programs like the noon meals scheme and public health centers. It also describes the role of self-help groups in providing savings and credit opportunities as well as social and economic benefits to communities.

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Social Welfare Activities: Various Activities in Edaicode Town Panchayat

The document summarizes various social welfare activities in the Edaicode town panchayat, including self-help groups, a football club, a milk society, and government programs like the noon meals scheme and public health centers. It also describes the role of self-help groups in providing savings and credit opportunities as well as social and economic benefits to communities.

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CHAPTER IV

SOCIAL WELFARE ACTIVITIES

There are two societies functioning for the sake of the Edaicode
panchayat people viz., Co-operative Society and Land Welfare Society.
These societies are functioning for the benefit of the people of Edaicode
town panchayat.

Various Activities in Edaicode Town Panchayat

1. A Self-Help Group was started in the year 2004 to help the needy-persons.1

2. A football club has been initiated by the native people of Edaicode.2

3. Many of the primary and middle school students are benefited by the noon
meals scheme initiated by the Tamil Nadu Government.

4. A milk society is run by the people of Edaicode successfully for the last
few years.

5. Many of the people of the village rely in agriculture. They avail loan from
different banks, in particular the cooperative banks.

Public Health

Health measure are carried out mainly through Primary Health Centre
of Edaicode Town Panchayat.4 There are about 300 and odd out patients are
enrolled in the Prifnary Health Centre. Ayurveda treatment is also provided
to the needy persons. Eventhough, there is a Primary Health Centre, most of
the people of Edaicode Town Panchayat are relaying on the private Health
Centres.

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Sports and Arts Club

Sports and Arts Club place an important role in unifying in the


society. It creates healthy and fruitful character among the people. In this
town panchayat there are four Sports and Arts Club established for the
betterment of the society viz., Chemmankalai, Puthanchandai, Kalluppalam,
Ambatingkala.

Mid-day Meals Scheme

Mid-day Meals Scheme was one of the measures adopted to create


awareness among the parents to send their children to school. Mid-day
Meals Scheme was first experimented by Sir. Thyagaraja Chetti. lS However,
the great beginning of the scheme was made on 1 November 1957 by the
Kingmaker, leader, Karmaveerar Kamaraj, the then Chief Minister of Tamil
Nadu

It was further developed by M.G.R. and K. Karunanidhi. In the


Edaicode Panchayat, the Mid-day Meal Scheme of Tamil Nadu Government
is functioning well. The Mid-day Meals Centre of this panchayat is located at
Edaicode. It was started on 2.6.1993. Each Centre consists of three staff
members.

The Mid-day Meals Scheme of Kamaraj is an excellent measure to


make education a common man's affair. In this Panchayat it is a source of
help to the poorer parents to send their children to a home which is more or
less a day-care centre.

Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project

Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project is located at Edaicode


Panchayat. It was inaugurated on 7 November 1993. It aims at the welfare of

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the pregnant mothers and babies, prevention of contagious diseases,
development of sanitation and promotion of social welfare of the panchayat.

Activities of the Nutritious Project

The trainees of the project check the body weight of the mothers and
babies and suggest medical treatment. They also impact civic education and
recommend vaccination.12

There are sixty three nutritious centres in the Melpuram Union. In the
Edaicode Panchayat five nutritious centres in the Melpuram Union. In the
Edaicode Panchayat five nutritious centres are established. These centres are
situated at Edaicode, Puthanchandai and Malaicode.

In these centes one mid-day meal teacher and one nutritious meal
teachers are appointed. At present there are 40 children taking nutritious
food in the Edaicode Centre.

Importance

The functioning of the nutritious scheme helps the mother to give


birth to healthy children. The scheme prevent the child death and helps the
handicapped child to become a unhandicapped one.15 Through this scheme,
wheat, ragi, soya, roasted banyan gram and jaggery are provided for the
pregnant ladiesand feeding mothers also supplied to mothers. The quantity
of nutritious meal given to people of various stage are as follows. For
the children of 6 to 24 months -50 gram, 25 to 36 months-100 gram, for
pregnant ladies -100 gram and feeding mother-100 gram

Development of Palmyrah Society

Samuel Amirtham, the former principal of the theological college at


Arasaradi, Madurai, the Director of World Theological College, former

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Bishop of South Kerala Diocese formed a society for Palmyrah workers in
Kanyakumari district in 1975. The Head office is at Marthandam.

The society implement accident benefit scheme, self home for those
who are affected. The society joined with another Trust and done good to the
poor palmyrah society.19

They have started training centres at various places in Kanyakumari


district. Sales places were started in many places to sell palm sugar and other
things. The society also arranged sales market in and out of the country. It
gives relief to the poor palmyrah workers.

Self-Help Groups (SHG)

Self-Help Groups have a better appreciation of the enterprise and


willingness of its individual members to undertake specific economic
activities. The ability of the member to bring for the personal savings and
the extend of external credit support received by the member of the group is
assessed. Self-Help Group is a small economically homogenius and cohensive
group of the rural poor voluntary coming together. In recent years such
voluntary agencies are working for the development of weaker sections
through social organization.21 The Banker extend credit to such groups
comprising the under privileged rural poor and assist them in promoting
savings and credit activities. The groups have been encouraged to practice.
Thrift and small savings collection that are done by individual members to
meet the consumption needs. Self-Help Group is small size. The maximum
number of member is 20.

Characteristics of Self-Help Groups

Based on local requirements, Self-Help Groups have evolved their


own characteristics. They are:

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1) Idential Interest

2) Social Heritage, Herogenity, affinity

3) Small size

4) Flexible and responsive

5) Transferency in'operations

6) Common fund contributions. Regular savings by members and outside


borrowings.

7) Intimate knowledge of members intrinsic needs and related to market


rates as per the decision of the group

7) Democratic functioning

8) Any activity supported - traditional and non-traditional production and


consumption

10) Collectoral consists of mutual confidence and trust

11) Simple documentation

12) Terms of credit decided by consenous in the group meeting."

13) Minimum external interventies (Non-Government organizations/Banks).

14) Repayment utmost sent per cent by pressure and group dynamics

15) Mutual discussions during meetings and collective leadership

16) Group solidarity, Self-Help awareness social and economic


empowerment.

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Functions of Self-Help Groups

Self-Help Groups are mostly inter used groups were numbers pool
savings and re-lend in the group on rotational basis. The group has a
common perception curtained improves towards collective action. Many such
groups formed around specific production activities, promote savings

Among members and use the pooled resources to meet various credit
needs of members.

The functions are:

i. The group members usually, create a common fund by contributing


their small savings as a regular basis

ii. Groups involve a flexible system of working and manage pooled


resources in a democratic way

iii. Loan requests are considered by groups in a periodic meetings and


compailing claims and limited resources are settled by consenous

iv. Loans are given mainly an trust with minimum documentation and
without any security.

v. The loan amounts are small, frequently for short duration and are
mainly for unconventional purposes

vi. The rates of interest varies from group to group and the purpose of
loan. It is decided by the group the interest rate is normally higher
than that of the loans but lower than that of money lenders.

vii. At periodic meetings, besides collecting money social and economic


issue are also discussed Repayments defaults are rare due to group
pressure and ultimate knowledge of the end use of credit.

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Criteria for the Selection of Self-Help Groups

1. The group should have successfully undertaken savings and credit


operations from its own resources

2. Democratic working of the group is where in all members feel that they
have a say in the group

3. The group is maintaining proper accounts or records

4. They should be genuine attempts to help each other and work together
among the members

5. The Self-Help Groups members should preferably have


homogeneous background and interest.

6. The interest of the non-Government organizations of Self-Help


promoting institution concerned if any, in the groups is evident and the
agency is helping the Self-Help Groups by way of training and other
support for proper functioning.

Benefits for Community and Village by Self-Help Groups

i) Innaculation of the spirit of Self-Help and Teamspirit

ii) Higher social, capital achieve participation and collective for


development

iii) Model effect, wjien other poor women begin to form similar groups
seeing the success of the other Self-Help Group

iv) Improved health and family welfare, through better awareness.

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v) Better education children and literacy due increased awareness

vi) Knowledge of various welfare programmes of government and bank


in villages

vii) Voicing and acting against social injustices and violence against
women and children.

viii) Women become vocal and gain confidence

ix) Economic development due to better economic status of families

x) Abolition of bounded labour and child labour through better


economic status and increased awareness

xi) Environment consciousness and conservation of mutual resources

xii) Communal harmony and caste harmony

xiii) Eradication of evils of alcohol and dowry system

Self-Help Groups in Edaicode Panchayat

In Edaicode Panchayat there are more than hundred Self-Help Groups


are established. In some groups, they buy coconut from the local people and
sell them in the market profitably and they collect the profit
amount for the development of the Self-Help Group. Some groups prepare
masal powders and sell in the shops. In short, the Self-Help Groups of this
panchayat, strive for the development of women.

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