I've shared the URL of the news appeared in TOI for primary Data you can visit Census website
On 12/25/14, Amiyo Biswas <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you mention the link for the census data? > > With best regards, > Amiyo Biswas > Cell: +91-9433464329 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "avinash shahi" <[email protected]> > To: "sayeverything" <[email protected]>; "accessindia" > <[email protected]>; "jnuvision" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 3:53 PM > Subject: [AI] latest report on 2011 Census released: '71% of disabled kidsin > > rural India' > > >> India has 20.42 lakh disabled children aged between 0 and 6 years. >> Around 71% of them - 14.52 lakh children - are in rural areas. There >> are 5.9 lakh disabled children in cities. Of them, 11.04 lakh are male >> and 9.38 lakh are female children. Among them, 1.49 lakh children have >> multiple disabilities. >> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/71-of-disabled-kids-in-rural-India/articleshow/45611400.cms >> Children with hearing and eyesight disabilities form the lion's share >> among them. All age groups put together, there are more than 41 lakh >> children with eyesight problems and 47 lakh children with hearing >> disabilities in the country, says the latest report on 2011 Census >> released on Monday. >> >> "More children with disability are found in rural areas because of >> lack of paediatricians in villages. Many community health centres in >> rural areas don't have even a doctor, leave alone paediatricians," >> said chairman and founder of Narayana Health Dr Devi Prasad Shetty. >> "Only a paediatrician will be able to detect disability in a child at >> an early stage. If detected on time, the child can be sent to urban >> centres to consult specialists," he said. >> >> "Even many years after independence, in many villages, women give >> birth with the help of midwives and not under a gynaecologist's care. >> Problems that a pregnant woman faces affects the child also. At times >> they are born with mental disability," Shetty said. >> >> There are more than 5.80 lakh children in this age group with other >> disabilities like autism and cerebal palsy. Uttar Pradesh has the >> maximum number of children with disabilities. Bihar is next on the >> list with 2.90 lakh children. Maharashtra has 2.17 lakh children with >> disabilities. In the south, undivided Andhra Pradesh has 1.27 lakh >> children, followed by Karnataka - 92,853 - Tamil Nadu - 62,538 - and >> Kerala - 26,242. >> >> Among the smaller states, Sikkim has the lowest number (628) of >> disabled children. Assam has the maximum number of disabled children >> (35,742) in the northeast. >> >> "State governments should take steps based on census numbers. Even in >> Tamil Nadu, the state government has not taken any step like incidence >> analysis based on the 2011 census," said Meenakshi Balasubramanian of >> Equals, an NGO working with disabled people in the state. >> >> The country's disabled population has increased by 22.4% between 2001 >> and 2011. The number of disabled, which was 2.19 crore in 2001, rose >> in 2011 to 2.68 crore - 1.5 crore males and 1.18 crore females. Rural >> areas have more disabled people than urban areas. In Maharashtra, >> Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir and Sikkim, the disabled >> account for 2.5% of the total population, while Tamil Nadu and Assam >> are among those where the disabled population is less than 1.75% of >> the total population. >> >> -- >> 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. 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