ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

The innate objective of any constitution or governing body lies in its ability to be pro-Welfare. The concept of this “Welfare State” has been long discussed by numerous philosophers and economists alike. Starting from Plato, to modern day Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, welfare has been an undisputable constituent in the general functioning of all economies. What we consider, if not ideally as welfare, seldom remains mutually exclusive from the basic economic requirement that drives the consumer society; need. Perhaps it isn't overstating if we could term welfare as a state where the government looks out for its citizens by attending to their needs. The constancy across perspectives is that the human instinct is conditioned to survive and it requires the basic necessities to do so; which are narrowed down to food, water, clothing and shelter. What is dealt with a non-existent third eye, is the welfare aspect of people in a State. A lot of schemes and policies are introduced for uplifting the living standards of the poor, but seldom have they been worked upon to enhance their lives starting from their basic needs. Over a course of 5 years, the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has come up with myriad ways to deal with the abundance of dread in their territory. The State government adopted strategies that could help in increasing accessibility to hygienic food, clean drinking water, quality inputs for infrastructural development, educational up gradation, etc. This research is an attempt to understand the various aspects of being a Welfare state, with Tamil Nadu as the sample, and the costs associated with it. The study is aimed at attempting to create an economically viable model that could be used by all states in the country to slowly erode the deficiency of people to meet their basic needs.