SOCIAL SERVICES DIVISION
Functions of the Divisions:
- Formulation of Five Year Plan documents.
- Formulation of Annual Plan documents.
- Preparation of Annual Plan Budget.
- Assisting the State Planning Board to advice on technical subjects.Subjects dealt by the Division:
- Education.
- Health.
- Water Supply & Sanitation.
- Social Security Welfare and Nutrition.
- Labour and Labour Welfare.
- Housing and Information & Publicity.
- Women DevelopmentDepartments and Agencies under the purview of the division:
I. Education.
- Directorate of Public Instructions
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- Directorate of Vocational Higher Secondary Education.
- Directorate of Higher Secondary Education.
- State Council for Education, Research and Training (SCERT)
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- District Primary Education Programme (DPEP)
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- Directorate of Collegiate Education.
- Directorate of Technical Education.
- Universities :
- Kerala University.
- Calicut University.
- M.G University.
- Cochin University of Science & Technology.
- Kannur University.
- Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit.- Kerala State Science and Technology Museum.
- Kerala State AudioVisual and Reprographic Centre.
- Directorate of N.C.C.
- Law Colleges
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- State Institute of Educational Technology
.
- Institute of Human Resources Development.
- Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
- International Institute of Dravdian Linguistics.
2. Sports and Youth Affairs
- Directorate of Sports & Youth Affairs.
- Kerala State Sports Council
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- Kerala State Youth Welfare Board.
3. Art and Culture
- Director, Department of Museums and Zoos.
- Director, Archaeology department.
- Director, State Archives.
- Margi, TVPM.
- VastuVidya Gurukulam, Aranmula.
- Kerala State Chalachitra Academy.
- Kerala Kala Mandalam, Cheruthurutty.
- Multi Purpose Cultural Complex Society.
- Kerala State Film Development Corporation.
- Kerala Sahitya Academy.
- Guru Gopinath Nadanagramam.
- Kerala Lalitha Kala Academy.
- Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy.
- Department of Cultural Publications.
- Kerala Gazetteers.
- Public Library.
- Kerala Book Marketing Society.
- Kerala State Library Council.
- State Institute of Children's Literature.
- State Institute of Languages.
- State Institute of Encyclopedia Publications.
- Kerala Folklore Academy.
- C-DIT.
- Bharath Bhavan.
- State NSS Cell.
11. Health and Family Welfare
- Directorate of Health Services.
- Directorate of Medical Education.
- Directorate of Ayurveda - All Medical Colleges.
- Directorate of Ayurveda Education - All Ayurveda Colleges.
- Directorate of Homoeopathy - All Homoeo Colleges.
- Government Homoeo Medical College, Trivandrum.
- Government Homoeo Medical College, Kozhikode.
- Govt. Analystics Laboratory.
- Public Health Laboratory.
- Drugs Control Department.
- Chemical Examiners Laboratory.
- Indian Pharmaceutical Corporation (Oushadi).
- Homoeo Cooperative Pharmacy, Alappuzha.
- Child Develolpment Centre.
- Regional Cancer Centre.
- Kerala Ayurveda Education and Research Society.
- Society for Rehabilitation of cognitive and communicative disorders.
- About 50 District Level/State Level Health Societies.111. Water Supply and Sanitation
- Kerala Water Authority.
- Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency.
- Total Sanitation Mission.
- Rural Development Department.
- Socio-Economic Unity Foundation.
1V. Social Security, welfare and Nutrition
- Department of Social Welfare.
- Kerala State Women Development Corporation.
- Kerala State Physically Handicapped Persons Welfare Corporation.
- State Institute of Mentally Retarded Children.
- National Institute for Speech and Hearing Therapy.
- State Commissionerate for Disability.
- Kerala Women's Commission.
- Department of Prisons.
- State Nutrition Bureau.
0 Labour, Employment and training
- Commissionerate of Labour.
- Directorate of Employment and Training.
- Department of Factories and Boilers.
- Kerala Institute of Labour and Employment (KILE).
- Department of Non Resident Keralites Affairs (NORKA).
- Overseas Development Employment Promotion and Consultant Ltd.(ODEPEC)
1 Housing
- Kerala State Housing Board.
- Kerala Police Housing Construction Corporation.
- Kerala State Co-operative Housing Federation.
- Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra.
- Public Works Department.
0 Information and Publicity
Public Relations Department.
List of Study Reports/Publications prepared by the Division: Synopsis of them (if possible)
- Report on School Health Programme - Health Card for school children (a quick study).
- Report of the expert committee on Social Security initiatives in Kerala.
- Health infrastructure and development indicators in Kerala (1995).
- Report of Export Committee on Financial and Surplus manpower in school education and higher education sectors in Kerala.
- Report of High Power Committee on Self-financing Education - Policy perspectives for Kerala.
- Report of the Expert Committee on Integrated Planning and Development of disabled in Kerala.
Any other details not covered above.
Studies currently undertaken.
- A Study on Vocational Higher Secondary Education in Kerala.
- A Study on Health Societies in Kerala.
- A Study on Unusable/Idle Equipment under Health Institutions.
- A Study on shortage of Medical Personnel's in Heath Institutions.
- Keralathile Samukhia Shema Paripadikal.
- Total Housing in Kerala.