Social Reform Activities

(i) women's organisation and welfare; (ii) children's organisation and welfare; (iii) local vagrancy relief; (iv) monitoring of sanctioning and distribution of pension for widows, old and physically disabled destitutes and allowances for unemployed and couples of inter-caste marriage in which one party is a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe; (v) control of fire outbreaks; (vi) campaign against superstition, castism, untouchability, alcoholism, expensive marriage and social functions, dowry and conspicuous consumption; (vii) encouraging community marriage and inter caste marriages; (viii) vigilance against economic offences such as smuggling, tax evasion, food adulteration; (ix) assistance for developing lands assigned to landless labourers; (x) resumption of lands alienat d by tribals; (xi) to identify, free and rehabilitate bonded labour; (xii) to organise cultural and recreation activities; (xiii) encouragement of sports and games and construction of rural stadia; (xiv) to give new form and social content to traditional festivals; (xv) promotion of thrift and savings through :- (a) promotion of saving habits; (b) small savings campaign; (c) fight against spurious money lending practices and rural indebtedness.