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| Disableds deprived of government |
| Statistics tell the tale of neglect, of how the benefits of many government schemes don't percolate to the people with disabilities
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| INDIA
, 21-February-2008
0:6:50 AM |
| The disabled in India comprise only 1.5 percent of the total beneficiaries of various poverty alleviation and welfare schemes, government figures reveal.
Statistics tell the tale of neglect, of how the benefits of many government schemes don't percolate to the people with disabilities.
Though statutory provisions of the People with Disabilities Act 1995 entitles the 20 million disabled in the country - as per Census 2001 - to share three percent of benefits of any poverty alleviation schemes, the number is exactly half of that.
As per government figures, the number of beneficiaries of different poverty alleviation schemes account for less than 1.5 percent of the total beneficiaries, an abysmally low figure.
The government's Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities noticed the huge gap between the benefits of government schemes and the disabled while studying beneficiaries of different centrally sponsored poverty alleviation schemes.
According to Javed Abidi of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), as many as 70 percent of PWDs (persons with disabilities) in India live in rural areas and 50 percent of them are extremely poor.
''This is a very liberal estimation of ours. One should know disability leads to poverty and vice-versa,'' Abidi said.
''In 2006-07 up to January, there were only 8,374 PWDs among the 895,236 beneficiaries of the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), a ministry for rural development scheme to provide houses to the houseless,'' said Manoj Kumar, chief commissioner for persons with disabilities under the ministry of social justice and empowerment.
''Even the percentage of funds utilisation on welfare activities for PWDs in ministries like rural development, housing and poverty alleviation and human resource development varied from 0.37 percent to 1.07 percent in 2006-07,'' said Kumar.
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