the rate of unemplyement fall in uttar pradesh is because the non organizations which used to play a key role have become mum in this issue. on the other hand the political parties have no programme for disability oriented one. the abilities of disabled are often mocked up here. this i am not saying without any detailed fact. my words are based on facts. our lucknow university has more than hundred disabled students every year but this year this number has gone down. in 2000 indian association for the visually handicapped donated about 700000 Rs for establishing a high tech centre in the tagore library of lucknow university. it was done so. the then vice chancellor innogerated the centre. however it is lying defunct since that time. no care has been taken for its revival. however a committee under my chairship was formed by the then vice chancellor but my knock the doors for the issue is taken very lightly. this year u.g.c. released about 810000 Rs in XI plan as first instalment including disability related problems to be solved in the same money but only inspite of me another committee is formed under the chairship of professor Rashmi Pande, Department of medieval history lucknow University but no work has been carried out by the same Vice Chancellor's committee for phuysically challenged. now this may be understood that in a city's leading university has this kind of atitude thane what can be thought about the general mass of U.P. in this regard. I hope some day a light will enlighten them till then we have to wait here. regards .....drunsinha
On 11/22/07, sweety bhalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unemployment up among the disabled: Study > > A World Bank report has found levels of unemployment increasing among > disabled persons in the country. > > The study commissioned by the Government of India and based on a sample of > 2,000 households in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh says that employment rate > among > people with disability (PWD) fell from 42.7 per cent in 1991 down to 37.6 > per cent in 2002. > > The five percentage point difference results in part from the different > sample as people with mental illness and retardation were not counted as PWD > in > the 47th round but were in the 58th round, where they were the PWD sub > groups with the lowest employment rates. > > However, the finding of a reduced employment rate among PWD between the > early 1990s and the early 2000s holds even when mental illness and mental > retardation > people are omitted from the 58th round sample. > > Excluding MI and MR, the study says that the employment rate of PWD still > stands at 39.6 in 2002 i.e. 3.1 percentage points lower than in 1991. This > compares > to a fall of only 1.1 percentage points for the general population (from > 58.6 to 57.5 per cent) between 1993 and 2000, the report points out. > > The report finds no explanation for this decline in employment rates over a > decade among people with disability. Says lead author Philip O'Keefe: "We > are > still looking for answers for this one. I feel better reporting and better > awareness about the matter could explain the figures partly." > > The report, People with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to Outcomes, > concludes that further research is needed to understand the determinants of > the decline in the job rate of persons with physical and sensory > disabilities between 1991 and 2002, particularly to assess if it results > from changes > in the demographic composition of the population with disabilities, in the > increased severity of disability or factors in the labour market and > society. > > The report goes on to say that fall in the employment rates of PWD relative > to the general working age population during the 1990s is almost universal > across > the country except Sikkim. But the extent of the relative decline varies. > > States like Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra exhibit small falls in the > PWD/non PWD employment ratios, while others like J& K, Bihar, and Assam have > seen > large falls in the relative employment position of PWD. > > A further aspect of the unfair gap between the employment rates of the PWD > and the general working age population is the variations between the two in > the > levels of education. > > The study says that the gap in employment rates between the two is more > pronounced for those with the lowest levels of education in both periods. > The gap > in employment levels has widened for all education levels, the study shows. > > For the illiterate PWD population, their employment rate was 64 per cent of > the of the general illiterate population in the early 1990s. This fell > sharply > to 47 per cent by the early 2000s. Not only have PWDs lost out in employment > terms in 1990s, but those likely to be the poorest have lost out > proportionately > more, the report says. > > (Sweety Bhalla) > Assistant Manager > IFCI LTD > New Delhi India > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
