All the educated and successful of a community must return whatever is possible for them to their immediate society.

• How do you look at this statement?

Social welfare is a collective exercise in which society has the duty to give its citizens whatever is needed for them to be successful. The same way, citizens have to be returning whatever is possible for them to the community. This responsibility is higher with the educated and successful.

As a matter of fact, society is a collective term, and keeping its well being is a complex process. From individuals’ perspective, their society is expected to provide them with everything so that they can be productive and thereby successful. For example, schools, food, energy and water security, law and order, justice system, medical care, transportation, sanitation and the list goes on.

Here crops a question? Do all members depend on their society for everything throughout their life? No. Society as such is a complex mix of people: there are haves and have-nots, educated and not so educated, employed and unemployed, healthy and weak, young and old, and there are several other disparities. Can a society bridge all these gaps?

Here comes the role of the educated and successful. There are innumerable options for them to help their society that has made them what they actually are. For example, doctors can offer free consultation; teachers can guide poor students; advocates can offer a little free legal aid, the educated can help educate the rest and the successful can generate employment, and the employed can promote development.

In short, it is right to say there is no society without people’s participation and there are no successful people without societal intervention. This is a two way process, and the absence of one will cancel the other out. It is a kind of help and be helped.

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