Disability / differently able

Key messages..
The number of people with disabilities in India is substantial and likely to grow - disability does not go away as countries get richer. Social attitudes and stigma play an important role in limiting the opportunities of disabled people for full participation in social and economic life, often even within their own families. India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks in the developing world. However, there remain huge challenges in operationalize the policy framework.

Key messages
Increasing the status and social and economic participation of people with disabilities would have positive effects on everyone, not just disabled people India has a vibrant and growing disability rights movement and NGO/DPO and civil society involvement in service delivery for people with disabilities.

What is Disability
Dis-able The Blind The Deaf The Orthopaedically Handicapped The Negative Lepers The Mild Mentally Retarded

Types of Disability
Physical Disability Visually Impaired Hearing Impaired Speech disability Locomotors Disability Overlapping

Specific Data
Overlapping 11.54%

Physical disability 41.32%

Locomotors disability 23.04%

Disability

Visual impairment 10.32%

Speech ability 5.06%

Hearing impairment 8.36%

Source: SARVEKSHANA, 36th &47th rounds, National Sample Survey Organization, Department Of Statistics

Census of India 2001 identified five types of disabilities as defined above. Number of disabled in each type of disabilities is depicted in table below, which shows total number of disabled in India at 21,906,769 which constitute more than 2 percent of total population. Disabled in India by types of DisabilitiesTypes of DisabilitiesNumber of DisabledPercentageSeeing1063488148.55Speech16408687.49Hearing12 617225.76Movement610547727.87Mental226382110.33Total21906769100 .00Source: Census of India 2001

Facts
India has 40 to 80 billion disable people At least 1 in 12 house has disable member Children with disability are 5 time more likely to be out of school than average Nearly 75 percent of total disabled lives in rural areas

Crisis due to Disability

Rarely progress then primary- lower employment
Subject to severe social exclusion Health -Only a few disabled people have access to aids and appliances Education lack of awareness , budget are not well utilized

Crisis due to Disability

Employment Social protection Disability does not go away as countries get richer They often have low awareness of rights and entitlements 94% of HH with disabled member have not heard of PWD Act in rural TN and UP But there remain huge challenges in operationalizing the policy framework cont;Inherent challenges of inter-sectoral coordination Awareness among service providers, officials and PWD often low Executive Coordination Structures very weak in most states Commissioners offices usually under-resourced in funds and people Mechanisms for service outreach below district level remain underdeveloped and unclear PRI strategy NGO sector vibrant but challenges to expand into rural areas and to strengthen business processesa

Ngos

Wings..

Corporate agency

Govt agency

Recommendations
A large number of disabilities in India are preventable Scholarship Concessional assistive devices Job reservation Concession facilities in traveling Special training institutions

Recommendations
Tax benefits Loan for business at concessional rate etc More organizations working for disabled should be there are rural areas

Conclusion
The proportion of disabled in India as per census 2001 is 2.13 percent of total population India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks in the developing world cont;PWD Act, 1995 The education system of a country is the main edifice on which the future of the nation rests Get the basics right : Preventive care Identifying people with disabilities Major improvements in early intervention Getting all children with special needs into school improve societal attitudes

 The problem is not how to wipe out the differences but how to unite with the differences intact. Rabindranath Tagore

The Government knows that there is a need for improvement in health services in rural areas, and, therefore, a time bound programme has been formulated to achieve the desired targets. The National Rural Health Programme launched in 2005, has to provide effective health care to the rural population throughout the country with special focus on 18 States, which have weak public health indicators and/or weak infrastructure. The Mission also aims at raising public spending on health to undertake architectural corrections of the health system to enable it to effectively handle increased allocations and promote policies that strengthen public health management and service delivery in the country. The goals of the Mission are reduction in IMR, MMR, universal access to public health services, prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, including endemic diseases, access to integrated comprehensive primary health care, population stabilization, gender and demographic balance, revitalize local health traditions and medical systems and promote healthy life styles.

 disabled, handicapped, crippled, physically

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