The first SOS Children's Village in India was set up in 1961.
Location: The village was established in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Karnataka.
Purpose: SOS Children’s Village provides a family environment for abandoned, orphaned, or vulnerable children, ensuring they receive love, care, and education.
So, the correct option is (C): 1961
List-I (Name of the Programme/Scheme/Initiative) | List-II (Objective) |
(A) The National Service Volunteer Scheme | (I) Provide a family approach to the long term care of orphaned and abandoned children |
(B) NSS | (II) Provide day-care, educational and entertainment opportunities, healthcare, companionship |
(C) Multi-Service Centres for Older Persons | (III) Provides opportunities to students (who have completed their first degree) to involve them-selves, on a whole-time basis for a short period of one or two years, in programmes of national development |
(D) SOS Children’s Villages | (IV) Aims at involving college level students in programmes of social service and national development |