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Karnataka High Court notice to Centre on petition challenging
exclusion of disabilities from National Family Health Survey
The petitioner has sought a direction to the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare to include the 21 disabilities mentioned in the schedule
to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPwD), 2016 as a
variable in the household survey
The High Court of Karnataka has ordered issue of notice to the Central
government on a PIL petition questioning exclusion of disabilities as a
variable in the ensuing National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice
M.G.S. Kamal passed the order on the petition filed by Javed Abidi
Foundation.
The petitioner has sought a direction to the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare to include the 21 disabilities mentioned in the schedule
to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPwD), 2016 as a
variable in the household questionnaire of the NFHS-6 while pointing out
that disabilities was a variable in the NFHS-5
Reasons for exclusion
Quoting various media reports, it has been claimed in the petition that
the disabilities were excluded from NFHS-6 on the advise of a Technical
Advisory Committee citing two reasons - enumerators were not trained nor
qualified to ask about and evaluate disability; and enumerating
disability as a variable was a time-consuming and laborious process.
The reasons cited to exclude disabilities are unjustifiable in the light
of Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (UNCRPD), which states that it the right of persons
with disabilities to be part of any data collection exercise and all
data about disability should be disaggregated so that persons with
disabilities can get the maximum advantage of any schemes and other
programmes meant for their welfare. The exclusion also violative of the
provisions of the RPwD Act, the petition has complained.
Disputing claim
The petitioner has also disputed the claim of the Ministry that the
disabilities has been already enumerated during the 76^th round of the
National Sample Survey of 2018 and there would be no change in those
figures.
The Ministry’s response to petitioner stating that the NFHS-5 contained
questions questionnaire on disabilities on the advise of Department of
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, and the primary focus of NFHS
is maternal and child health and other questions with a very shorter
version of the question will not be advisable.
*Source:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/karnataka-high-court-notice-to-centre-on-petition-challenging-exclusion-of-disabilities-from-national-family-health-survey/article67161659.ece*
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