CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NAPSWI was born in 2005, following the concerns of professional social workers to cater to the need of having an organization at the national level. Since its inception, it has been making attempts to bring professional social workers on one platform, so that a collectivity identity of the profession could emerge.

Detailed explanation-2: -NAPSWI intends to promote the social work profession across the country with the aim of improving the quality of services in the social welfare and social development sectors on one hand and to protect interests of social work professionals on other.

Detailed explanation-3: -However, the year 1936 marks the golden beginning of Social Work Education in India when Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work got established in Bombay and formal training began. After Independence, social welfare provisions were well defined in Indian constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The NCSW aims at the following objects: 1. Formulate a curriculum framework and standards for social work education in India, including specific standards for open and distance learning programmes, and use them for accreditation and registration of Social Work Education Programmes in India.