Vision

Build a cadre of social work professionals with comprehensive perspective and who can be a cause for social change and inclusive growth of nation.

Mission

• To impart skill based theoretical inputs to the deserving, to engender qualified, analytical and ethical development professionals.
• To initiate departmental field action efforts to contribute for social change and development as an educational institute of historical relevance.

Objectives

• To prepare graduates and post graduates to enter the professional practice as trained and skilled social work practitioners with unbiased, balanced attitude.
• To enhance the understanding of the student-social-workers towards the basic human rights and duties of the populace that exists globally as well as locally.
• To enhance the ability of student-social-worker to identify various causal factors that can affect people and environments, as also to identify how these factors can potentially interact to produce social disorganization, stress and problems that affect individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.
• To increase awareness, generate sensitivity towards, issues of gender, caste, class, age, ability, and religion; in our pluralistic society, in the attitude and the approach of the student-social-workers.
• To prepare the student-social-workers to use the social work knowledge, skills, values and ethics to enhance both the quality of life for the people whom they work with and the quality of such attempted efforts in the urban as well as in rural India.
• To provide the student-social-worker a platform to apply the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to continually and constant evaluation of the efficacy of their efforts as well as the initiatives carried out by the community based agencies; and to thus, contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.
• To provide the student-social-worker an opportunity to share the knowledge, skills, inculcate values and ethics essential for the effective engaging in the practice of social work at the micro as well as macro-levels, to advocate for systemic change and to work towards a setting that positively contributes to social and economic justice; as also questions the existing frameworks.

Introduction

• The Department of Social Work launched Master of Social Work Program in 2004. We at the department of Social Work are running three programs i.e. Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), Master of Social Work (MSW) and Ph.D in Social Work. Since 2006-07, two specializations namely Family & Child Welfare (FCW) and Urban & Rural Community Development (URCD) are on offer and now introducing 'Medical and Psychiatric Social Work' specialization on the onset of 2021-22.

•The Department of Social Work was started with the aim of making constant efforts to impart qualitative knowledge to our students but also updated inputs, relevant for their theory-field knowledge, skills, attitude, and professional and personality development. During the one & half decade of its existence the department has taken efforts to impart skills so as to shape the students to be professional social workers. During the learning period the students get wide firsthand experience of field training through several curricular and co-curricular activities. Issue based field work is an innovative pattern of field work introduced since 2008 and further developed collaboration with various government departments.

Board Of Studies

Composition	Name of the member	Tenure
Chairperson	Dr.Madhavi Renavikar	2 Yr.
One Associate Professor and One Assistant Professor of the faculty of Department by rotation of Seniourity	1. Dr.Prakash Yadav 2. Dr.Kartiki Subkde	2 Yrs.
Not more than 2 persons to be Co-opted for their expert knowledge including those belonging to the profession or industry concern Members	1. Smt Jayashree Chandekar 2. Dr. Lalita Vartak	2 Yrs.
I/C Registrar	Dr.Suvarna Sathe	2 Yrs

Approvals

• National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
• Notification

Course Information

1.Features
• Integrated teaching and learning approach through emphasis on field work and theory sessions.
• Skill-enhancing and potential building efforts for student-social-workers through Skill lab and research lab, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and advanced specialisation exposure visits organised on a regular basis.
• Additional vidyapeeth level exposure in community-based interventions. Energetic, enthusiastic, qualified faculty members with filed experience and research aptitude. 
• Campus placement in various civil society organisation and Corporate Social Responsibility sector.
2.Field Work
• As An Essential Component of Social Work education, Field Work is conducted in definite stages. All domains of field work is covered in this education. Sartting from Orientation Visit,Concurrant Field Work in all semester, Rural Education Camp after first semester, Summer palcement in Movement base Organisations after second semester,Specialization based Advance Orientation Visists, Block Field Work in Government organsiations and projects after third semester, Block Palcemt after fourth semester.

Teaching Staff

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Academic Calendar

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Specializations

1. Family and Child Welfare
2. Tribal, Rural, Urban Community Development
3. Medical and Psychiatric Social Work.