The number of disabled persons aged 5-19 years attending
educational institutions rose by 11 % during the 2001-2011
decade.
According to figures released by the Registrar General of India on
Monday Oct 31,2016, the total number of disabled person aged 5-19 years stood at
65.7 lakh, of which 40.2 lakh (61.2 %) were attending educational
institutions, while 17.5 lakh (26.7 %) said they never attended
any educational institution. Eight per cent said they had attended
earlier.
However, the urban-rural divide in access to education for disabled
persons aged 5-19 years was quite pronounced with a total of 12.2 lakh
of the total of 18.8 such persons in urban areas attending educational
institutions, against 28.1 lakh out of a total of 46.4 lakh such persons
attending any institution in rural India.
Predictably, the gender gap among the disabled was also evident with
22.8 lakh or 56.7 % males and 17.4 lakh or 43.3 % females
among those attending educational institutions.
“The corresponding status for total population (3,801.6 lakh) in the
same age group at Census 2011 is 2,698.1 lakh (71 %) attending
educational institutions, 449.4 lakh (11.8 %) attended earlier
and 654.1 lakh (17.2 %) never attended,” said an official
release.
Among the major states, Kerala had the best record with 76,394 out of
104,418 such persons attending educational institutions.
In Tamil Nadu,
150,883 disabled persons out of a total of 239,756 persons aged 5-19
were attending such institutions, while in Karnataka, 207,779 out of
330,781 such persons had access to education.
Among those attending educational institutions in this age group, the
category ‘any other disability’ showed the highest percentage (71.2 % ) attendance, followed by ‘seeing’ (68 %), ‘hearing’ (67 %), ‘movement’ (59.6 %), ‘speech’ (58.9 %), ‘mental
retardation’ (47.2%) and ‘multiple disability’ (37.2 %).
The poorest record was shown by the mentally disabled (34.1 %).
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