Can you mention the link for the census data?
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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
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