The
table C-22 gives distribution of the disabled population in
the age-group 5-19 by their attendance status in educational institution, type
of disability, age, sex and residence for India, State/UT and Cities.
The table reveals that there are about 65.7 lakh
disabled population in age-group 5-19 at Census 2011 in India out of which 40.2
lakh (61.2%) are attending educational institutions, 8.0 lakh (12.1%) attended
educational institutions earlier and 17.5 lakh (26.7%) never attended any
educational institutions. The corresponding status for total population (3801.6
lakh) in the same age group at Census 2011 is 2698.1 lakh (71.0%) attending
educational institutions, 449.4 lakh (11.8%) attended earlier and 654.1 lakh
(17.2%) never attended. Further, out of 40.2 lakh disabled persons attending
educational institutions, 22.8 lakh (56.7%) are males and 17.4 lakh (43.3%) are
females. In 2001, about 33.0 lakh (50.5%) out of 65.3 lakh disabled persons in
the same age group reported attending educational institutions. As such, there
is an improvement of about 11 percentage points in the status of attending
educational institutions by disabled persons in the age-group 5-19 during the
decade 2001-2011.
It
is further noticed that disabled persons with ‘Any other disability’ shows the
highest percentage (71.2%) in attending educational institution followed by ‘Seeing’
(68.0%), ‘Hearing’ (67.0%), ‘Movement’ (59.6%), ‘Speech’ (58.9%), ‘Mental
retardation’ (47.2%), ‘Multiple disability’ (37.2%) and least with ‘Mental
illness’ (34.1%). Maximum percentage of disabled persons who attended
educational institution earlier is seen in ‘Movement’ (17.7%) followed by ‘Mental
illness’ (15.5%), and least in ‘Multiple disability’ (8.4%). The proportion of
disabled persons, who never attended any educational institution in 2011 was
found to be highest among persons with ‘Multiple disability’ (54.4%), followed
by ‘Mental illness’ (50.3%) and ‘Mental retardation’ (41.2%) whereas persons
with ‘Any other disability’ (17.7%) show the least percentage.
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