Unfortunately you are not alone Prateek. Yes lot of time and resources has been spend on awareness on Question 9 of the on-going Census this year. However there are cases where this question was not asked.
This evening, I was the guest speaker in one phone-in programme of one FM Channel on the topic Census and Disability. There was one caller who called during the programme and said that he was not asked the question. He himself raised this with the enumerator, to which the reply was "But you do not look disabled, that's why we omitted it". And according to this gentleman, he has 75% orthopedic disability. He even showed his certificate to the enumerator! We received few other similar complaints in our helpline as well. And mind you all the complaints we received till now are from Kolkata city and not from the districts. Shampa Sengupta Sruti Disability Rights Centre Kolkata 700 042 On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:45 AM, prateek aggarwal < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > Its nice to know the sensus experiences for many of you. If about my > experience about sensus, unfortunately, I can not mark it very > pleasant. > The enumerators have visited my home in my absence and met mom for the > information collection. > They didn’t ask question 9 till the end, so finally mom had to ask > them for this. > Because i've already made mom aware about the question and the whole > issue, I got counted well, but this posed an important question that > what would have happened if it was someone else instead of my mom who > isn’t aware about all this, specially, if in a rural area? > > The government has done its work, and a lot of NGOs too have actively > participated in adding the question about disability, while spreading > awareness, or training the enumerators. > In fact, I personally have conducted one such training for the > enumerators here in jaipur, where it was resoundingly > told to the enumerators about the importance of question 9. > I wonder why they are still not cooperating? I hope that the group > which came to my home was the only oblivious one, others might have > been knowing this well. > > Regards, > > Prateek agarwal. > Director, > Daedal technovations pvt. Ltd. > www.daedaltechnovations.com > we bring the change we wish to see! > > > > Website: > www.prateekagarwal.tk > | > www.prateekagarwal.webs.com > > Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! > Question 9 relates to disability. > Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! Question 9 relates to disability.
