Social Work Bulletin

Social Work

University of Kashmir

Online ISSN: 2582-7790

Adequate legal and policy frameworks are essential elements that can promote the growth of entrepreneurship in markets. This paper focuses on a comparative study of these government schemes, regulatory, and policy frameworks to identify potential obstacles among many of the frameworks in India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar. However, there are differences in the frameworks that may contribute to various developmental stages in entrepreneurship in the BIMSTEC region. The study demonstrates how governments in various nations implement similar laws and policies to encourage the emergence of entrepreneurial opportunities. The frameworks of those seven nations are compared in the article to the BIMSTEC agenda. The research also demonstrates that the laws and rules governing enterprises face difficulties in the BIMSTEC region, “1.68 billion people, or 22% of the world's population, reside in the BIMSTEC region, and its member countries' yearly GDP totals US$3.697 trillion” (ABOUT BIMSTEC – Home-The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), n.d.). This paper offers some suggestions for India to take to encourage entrepreneurship using the comparison.

The Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic affected the people across the globe. Be it the number of deaths and infections, the disease posed a great threat to the people at large. Economic activities remained suspended for many months and imposed long spell of lockdowns forced people to adopt new set of living. Educational institutions including schools, colleges and universities were closed for face-to-face learning paving way to online mode of learning as an alternative.Given its magnitude and global spread, COVID19 resulted in a new set of social problems with both immediate and long-term consequences for key institutions of the society including education. Social work as a profession tries to adopt skills and theories of human behavioral and social systems in resolving social problems. An attempt is made in this article to understand the role of social workers in different capacities in the context of corona pandemic with special focus on education. In the entire enterprise of education, this research article tries to study how teaching learning process has undergone a radical transition in a pandemic environment. The key focus of this research article is to find the need and relevance of professional social work practice to address the multiple set of problems in education posed by pandemic circumstances. It is anticipated that exploring interventions that will positively impact the lives of the stakeholders associated with education including students, teachers, parents, administrators and community at large will be significant. Social work profession being responsive to the naive and challenging social situations has to step in to play its instrumental role in addressing the pandemic/post-pandemic issues faced by educational institutions.

The adolescence period is the most conflicting time during adolescence. It is a time of confusion when the child is not an adult, and at the same time, the child is no longer in the childhood stage. Girls experience puberty much earlier than boys with a series of events. Considering these individual differences, each girl can progress through these changes differently. Girls in adolescence face more challenges from both physical and emotional aspects. The adolescent stage for girls is more challenging than boys, and they need more support to tackle such problems. Although studies have been conducted to discover such problems amongst adolescent girls, the review of such studies needs to be included in the literature. This paper has attempted to present a review of critical studies concerning psychosocial issues among adolescent girls. This paper can help bring forward such issues which need to be resolved for the welfare of girls.

Skilling of youth is one of the major policy interventions of the Government to address the unemployment amongst the youth. The economy has experienced unprecedented growth, but has been characterized by jobless growth and informalization of job opportunities in the organized sectors. This paper attempts to assess the employment intensity and the potential to create jobs through the skill development initiative of Udaan program. A major policy objective of the scheme is to ensure demand-oriented employment opportunities. Nevertheless, the scheme serves broader socio-economic goals of empowerment through positive network effects. This paper discusses key policy imperatives towards expanding the scale and scope of the scheme amongst the educated youth of Jammu and Kashmir.

The paper traces the underlying ideologies, forces and factors that have set GM crops in motion throughout the world, especially in developing nations like India. It looks at the debate between the opponents and proponents of Genetically Modified (GM) Crops with special reference to the Indian scenario. However, no monolithic praising or condemning of GM crops has been resorted to. It describes both the versions- Pro- and Anti- of GM crops. The paper briefly identifies the public health risk and implication of GM crops. Moreover, it briefly Towards the end, the paper gropes to explore whether there is any meeting ground or balance possible between the two versions. “... walk on the legs of innovation and solidarity and work with one hand for food production and with the other for environment.”

The inception of special education for students with disabilities provided hope and opportunity for equitable educational experiences. a disability studies in education framework allows for complex components of teaching and programming for students with special needs to be explored in a practical way that promotes inclusive education among students with disabilities. Special education ensures students with disabilities receive specialized instruction designed to meet their unique learning needs. That way, they too get an opportunity to reach their full academic potential. For students with special needs, inclusion means everything because they thrive in the presence of their peers. When disability is viewed as a difference rather than deficit, it compels educators to consider the alternatives to pedagogy and programming more importantly it allows curricula and less on students overcoming their disability. Special Education ensures students with disabilities to receive specialised instructions designed to meet their unique learning needs. Through the special education people with special needs get an opportunity to reach their full academic potential. This paper is focused to provide a critical review on how special education optimises leaning process among people with special needs and highlights various strategies and challenges of special education.

COVID-19 has created an unprecedented worldwide health crisis, and the effect on the mental health of children and adolescents is expected to be significant. The present study explores consequences of the pandemic on fueling frustration, loneliness and isolation, psychological effects of students and their educational trajectories. Online education appears to be a permanent part of education systems, potentially marking the start of a new era in learning methods. The present study is also reflects on the economic collapse, employment anxiety and depression, financial worries, families of children with child sexual abuse. The study also addresses the mental condition of street children in India and children of migrant labourers during the pandemic, widening inequity of the impact on children from low-income families and lastly on building of mental health services for young and poor families.