Journal of Social Welfare and Management

Empowering women has always been a major concern around the globe. Women's empowerment has the ability to alter a variety of societal and national factors. If we want to turn our country into a developed nation, it is essential that men, the government, low-income women, and women themselves work to empower women. In the Indian society, gender discrimination and male predominance necessitated the empowerment of women. Empowering women is essential for a prosperous future in the family, society, and country. The present study focuses on women's empowerment in India using various indicators such as women's decision making, employment, equal remuneration, occupational health and safety, social security, financial independence, and education access. In every nation on the planet, gender inequality exists, despite the fact that women constitute half of the world's population. Until women are afforded the same opportunities as men, entire societies are doomed to fall short of their true potential. The most pressing need of the hour is a shift in the social attitude towards women. Education is a crucial instrument that enables women and girls to participate in decisions that affect their lives and to advance their social standing. Women empowerment makes them independent decision makers. It is possible for a country to achieve social, political, and economic growth through the empowerment of women. Consequently, a woman must be empowered from all angles for a nation to develop. For this reason, women should be granted additional opportunities and benefits. Women's integration into the mainstream of development may be the most effective method of emancipation. Women's empowerment will be genuine and effective only when they are endowed with income and property, allowing them to stand on their own two feet and establish their identity in the community. Government initiatives alone would not be sufficient to reach this goal. Society must take the initiative to foster an environment in which there is no gender discrimination and women have equal opportunities for self determination and participation in the social, political, and economic life of the nation.

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is a government scheme dedicated to providing affordable housing. It aims to improve both the urban and rural housing crisis that is present in India via two variations of the same scheme Gramin and Urban. PMAY was established in 2015 and aimed at providing pucca houses by the end of 2022. The shortage of rural housing was mostly caused by households living in temporary and congested homes. This research understands a few holistic approaches to eradicating shelter deprivation in rural India and how various components such as the kitchen, toilets, sanitation, food, and employment all play a role in the housing crisis. The paper also takes a look at the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries as an effect of the PMAY.

China now has turn out to be a pandemic. This ailment is affecting the health of famous population and coursing intense intellectual distress in healthcare personnel. This survey emerge as planned to analyze the impact of pandemic on highbrow well being of these personnel. Medical frame of employees contributors walking in Services postal, Lahore had been recruited. The records regarding demographic statistics, insomnia, anxiety, depression and strain symptoms and symptoms had been acquired with the useful resource of the usage of questionnaire. Comparison of demographic statistics and people intellectual variables had been finished amongst insomnia and non-insomnia organizations. Total 356 healthcare personnel had been covered withinside the check. There had been symptoms and symptoms of depression in 222(62.35%), anxiety in 227 sixty 4 (76%), strain in 197 (55.33%) and insomnia in 130 153.37%) of participants. Mid to intense symptoms and symptoms of depression (9165% vs 28.9%1, anxiety (83.1% vs. 41.6%) and strain (84.26% vs. 22.22% had been seen predominately within side the insomnia employer (p<0.001). Insomnia emerge as extra in participants with low training level (78.08%) vs post-graduate degree (30.956), Paramedics, nurses and healthcare personnel in Isolation/intensive care gadgets had been extra vulnerable to insomnia. Mental well-being of health care personnel is affected due to COVID-19 pandemic Nurses, paramedics and those walking in isolation unit have big insomnia. Involvement of highbrow health specialists and on-line.

In this age of information, the internet has added amazing changes to the educational and research world. This paper discusses about the role of information literacy and needfulness in academic environment. The information literacy will help to understand the relevance of information sources, products and services to the library users at present digital era. It also gives the ability to understand the information and evaluate the fact and fiction to take the right decisions for the progress of the society to change the world into a knowledge society. Libraries also play a vital role in promoting information access and fostering information literacy. Libraries contribute to increased access digitally and physically mode to knowledge by gathering and organizing resources and making them freely available. The awareness of research supported services, workshops; orientations organized by libraries are very much useful to its users.