Section 4

to co-ordinate voluntary welfare activities in the State not only as between member organisations of the Council but also with other similar organisations;

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to maintain and improve standards of voluntary social works and to encourage voluntary welfare efforts in fields not fully covered by the State

Government;

to assist member organisations by contributions or otherwise to promote voluntary welfare activities in the State;

to initiate, assist and organise such forms of relief and schemes or social service as may be deemed desirable by the Council;

to raise, receive, administer and distribute such funds and goods in kind as are entrusted to the Council;

to disseminate information to, and to interest in all possible ways, the members of the public in social welfare matters and to encourage participation therein;

to make such recommendations to the State Government as the Council thinks fit on matters pertaining to legislation in the field of social welfare or for the furtherance of the objects of the Council; and

to establish and manage a Headquarters for the Council, social service centres and welfare institutions in the State.

Powers of the Council.