BHOPAL: The state capital is home to highest number of disabled citizens, 84,502 to be precise. Indore stood at second place with a population of 78,761 disabled people. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Disabled-people-Highest-number-in-Bhopal/articleshow/45142282.cms Releasing data at a workshop here at Academy of Administration, on Thursday, census Madhya Pradesh director Sachin Sinha said there are 15,51,931 people with different disabilities in Madhya Pradesh, which is 2.14% of disabled population of 2,68,10,557 in India.
Comparing to 2001 census, there is a decline of 0.19% in disabled population in the state. This data is based on 2011 census and is released for the first time. Sinha said Jabalpur and Rewa with population of 59,074 and 57,889 people with disabilities, respectively are placed at third and fourth positions. Sagar is at fifth position with a population 52,576. Interestingly, Alirajpur, one of most backward districts of the state tribal district has minimum number of disabled people -10,869. He said this statistics is based on eight categories, including visually challenged, people who are hard of hearing or deaf, those lacking power of speech or dumb, physically disabled people and people with learning difficulties. Surprisingly, Bhopal stood first in all parameters. In visually challenged category, Bhopal has 21,346 citizens followed by Indore with 16,839 people under this category. Datia is at lowest level in the state with population of 1,843 people who visually challenged In all there are as many as 2,70,751 people in the state with this problem. In category, with people lacking hearing power, Bhopal again topped the list with a population of 21,843, while Indore is at second position with population of 18,915. Sheopur is at lowest level with population of only 1,748 people with this problem. There are 2,67,361 people in MP with problems of hearing power or completely deaf. In speech-related problems, Bhopal again has highest population of 4,553 people under this category followed by Indore, 3,764 people. Alirajpur is at bottom with 339 people having speech-related problems. Bhopal also has highest number of people with learning disability with the population of 3,917 people. Indore is again at second level with population of 3, 823 people. Alirajpur is at the bottom with only 403 persons with the learning disability. In all, there are 77, 803 people in the state with problem of learning disability . As far as mentally retarded people are concerned, Indore is at the top position with 1,701 such people. Jabalpur is the second position having 1,622 persons followed by Alirajpur with only 224 mentally tretarded people. In all, Madhya Pradesh has 39,513 people with learning disabilities. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
