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At a Glance Upazila Social Service Office, Bhaluka

Upazila Social Service Office Bhaluka, Mymensingh started its journey in 1984. Upazila Social Service Office Bhaluka is one of the most important offices related to human resource development, poverty alleviation, welfare, development and empowerment of the backward and backward communities of Atra Upazila. In order to introduce Bangladesh as a welfare state, the Upazila Social Service Office is implementing old age allowance, widow allowance, disability allowance, assistance programs for acid burns and disabled persons. Upazila Social Service Office Bhaluka as well as backward, backward sections of the society, unemployed, landless, orphans, destitute, vagabonds, destitute, socially, intellectually and physically handicapped persons, poor, helpless patients, vulnerable children welfare and development in both rural and urban areas across the upazila. Intensive activities are also being implemented. According to Article 15(d) of the Constitution of Bangladesh, Upazila Social Service Office Bhaluka is implementing all these activities in coordination with other government departments and organizations. Activities have been undertaken to achieve the targets outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Vision 2021 and the Seventh Five Year Plan.

The Department of Social Services is one of the other nation-building institutions of the government. Social welfare activities started in the country in 1955, but the Department of Social Services was created in 1961. The department created in the sixties has been upgraded to the Department of Social Services today. After the partition of the country in 1947, various social problems including slum problems arose in the then provincial capital Dhaka. To solve these problems, under the advice of United Nations experts, Urban Community Development Board, Dhaka, in 1955, the city social service office and the hospital social service program were taken under the social welfare council. The Department of Social Welfare was created in 1961 by taking over the responsibility of running Vaghuré Kendra (Government Shelter), Rashtriya Atimkhana (Government Children's Home) under the Bengal Vagrants Act of 1943, Orphan and Widow Homes Act of 1944. Later, due to the extensive expansion and expansion of social service activities, it was promoted as a permanent nation-building department of the government in 1978 and recognized as the Department of Social Services in 1984.

In the context of social philosophy and development strategy, the Hon'ble Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh declared January 2 as 'National Social Service Day' at the inauguration of the Samaj Seva Bhavan in 1999 to encourage the social workers engaged in this great work. The Cabinet meeting on 4 June 2012 declared 2 January as 'National Social Service Day' and listed the day as 'B' category. Department of Social Services won the Digital Bangladesh Medal in 2019 for implementation of INTHI, MIS, DIS, Information Delivery, Bangladesh Directory and other online activities.