Why people with disabilities are undercounted in Census and NSSO surveys In the month of January last year,I put some light on the issue http://kafila.org/2014/01/08/enumerative-practices-of-the-indian-state-and-the-disabled-avinash-shahi/
On 7/1/15, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: > Among the 2.68 crore disabled people, which includes 1.18 crore lakh > women, Uttar Pradesh houses the most number of disabled (41.57 lakh), > followed by Maharashtra (29.63 lakh) and Bihar (23.31 lakh). > Karnataka, with 13.24 lakh disabled, is eighth on the list, while > national capital Delhi has 2.34 lakh people with disabilities. > > Five states — UP, Maharashtra, Andhra, Bihar and Bengal — alone > account for more than 50 per cent of disabled women in the country. > Read more: > http://www.deccanherald.com/content/486770/number-disabled-rises-18-pc.html > -- > Avinash Shahi > Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU > -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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..
