Setting Priorities For Social Protection

Social protection is expanding around the world with new and innovative plans, policies and programmes supported by devoted resources. This is not a luxury, but a need of evolving society. All efforts towards lifting people above the poverty line and preventing people to fall below the poverty line can be counted as social protection. People have right not to be in poverty, suffering and destitution. And the informed and empowered people demand it from the state. However, this is one of the areas in government programme which still gets relatively fewer budget allocations while there is persistence need to extend social protection coverage.