It’s true that State or a politically organized body of people under a single government has its own roles in the social system and their efficient applications happen to provide basis.
The government, for that reason, whether it’s the socialist state or the free market economy, should bring forth programs for the betterment of the society. There has been the predominance of these state-funded benevolent programs, especially in the realm of pubic health, in a country like India and has been from the commencement of the independent era.
In the recent days, thanks to the tutelage of the pertinent governmental authority, these programs have attained new heights in the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
There has been the introduction of six teams to appraise an assortment of health problems extensive among schoolchildren.
All these are part of the school health scheme (2006-09) for rendering preventive and curative services in 104 government schools in the Union Territory.
What has been the rate of performance of the school health scheme? Well, it is quite impressive and proves once again that there can be astounding results if the government is attentive.
Not only there have been high developments in the domain of services to kids but in other sectors also. Take for instance the rate of malnourishment. The available statistics show, in accordance with the comparison of nutritional status, there has been a sharp reduction from 51.6% to 46.6%.
There has also been a great decrease in the incidences of anaemia and it has gone down from 30.2% to 23%. You will be amazed to know that dental diseases have also descended from 45.8% to 34.9%. Last but not least, nearly 262 pair of spectacles, under the blindness control programme, had also been provided free-of-cost to needy children by the department of ophthalmology.
The entire chapter, therefore, can be regarded as a gracious strategy of the government to lessen people’s sufferings. The government, as a social institution, has lots of roles to play.