Count Them In Too

Paik, Saswati (2010) Count Them In Too. i4d Magazine.

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Defining the dis-abled Total estimated number of disabled people in the world is 650 million. Almost eighty per cent of all disabled persons in the world live in isolated rural areas in the developing countries. In India, the decennial census sequentially couldn't focus on disability in set format since its inception. The information on disability were collected for India's decennial census since its inception in 1872. The questionnaire of the 1872 Census included questions not only on the physically challenged but also the mentally challenged and persons affected by leprosy. In each of the successive decadal censuses between 1872 and 1931, the information on disabled population were collected. But the enumeration of physically disabled persons was discontinued during the 1941 Census. In 1976, the United Nations launched its International Year for Disabled Persons (1981). It resulted in inclusion of a question on disability during censuses all over the world.

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Paik, Saswati

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