Burden of Disability in India (1881–2011)
| dc.contributor.author | Kalosona Paul | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shrestha Saha | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-06T06:43:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-06T06:43:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-10-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | It is estimated that roughly in the world 10 percent or 650 million people live with disability while India consists of 26.8 million (Census 2011) & 58th round of National s ample survey (N ss), 2002 (18.5million) indicates that around 2 percent of country’s population suffers from disability. the overreaching aim of this paper is to estimate the prevalence of disability with its type and assess the changes of proportionate disabled population during pre-independence and post-independence period. the paper essentially explains the manifold increase in the prevalence of disability in post-independence period due to the adaption of new definition. to analyze the prevalence of disability the standardized Index of Diversity (s ID) which was dev eloped by lieberson (1969) and Rowland (2003) and further given in K.M. Ponnapalli and F.Ram (2010). Paper outcome be said that blindness which continues fluctuated from the colonial periods in India. Concentration of disabled females is more with speech and, hearing whereas males' movement and mental disabilities. s IDD index values indicates that all the states and districts have experienced a rising seeing disability and movement disability, but 2011 reveal that prevalence of hearing and movement disability gradually growing. this index reveals that North-east states like sikkim; Nagaland & Manipur districts are disabled population are direct effect on curvature of economic. However, there is a need for the much-detailed investigation of the demography of disability which could provide insights into the problem and suggest the efforts that are needed to tackle the issue. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2393-8536 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2393-8544 | |
| dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.15415/jmrh.2015.21003 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://demodspace.chitkara.edu.in/handle/123456789/114 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Chitkara University Publications | |
| dc.subject | Definition | |
| dc.subject | Disability or Infirmity | |
| dc.subject | Definitional Issues | |
| dc.subject | types of disability | |
| dc.subject | SIDD index | |
| dc.title | Burden of Disability in India (1881–2011) | |
| dc.type | Article |