People with Disabilities in India: From Commitment to Outcomes

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6.8. One of the factors driving the apparently poor PWD outcomes on public works appears to be very low awareness in PWD households of the reservation. In the UP and TN rural survey, fully 94 percent of households were not aware of the reservation on public works schemes, and only 0.1 percent of PWD themselves had participated in any public works. 6.9. While SGRY performance on employment of disabled people appears to be poor, the 2005 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGS) has dropped the reservation for disabled people, with no mention of preferences for people with disabilities in either the Act itself or the implementing guidelines. This appears to be clearly inconsistent with the PWD Act, and efforts are ongoing to seek adjustment of the NREGS guidelines. An interesting joint effort between the state Government and disability NGOs is underway in AP to identify additional categories of works which would be better suited to employment of different disability categories. A second significant innovation in AP is that households with a disabled member are entitled to 150 days of public works employment per year, rather than the 100 days for other households under the Act. This can apply to any household member. 6.10. Performance on the IAY housing program is also well below commitments of the PWD Act. Recent data are available for fewer years, but 2003-04 data indicate that only around 0.8 of all beneficiaries were PWD. Again, there was some range statewise, but – with the exception of Manipur – not state met its quota, with again AP being the best performer with 2.3 percent of beneficiaries as PWD. In contrast, UP and J&K reported no PWD beneficiaries at all in 2003-04, and many states having PWD rates of 0.2 percent or lower of total beneficiaries (e.g. Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa and Karnataka). Data for the period 1998-2003 also indicate very low state shares of PWD to total IAY beneficiaries, estimated to be less than half of percent of all IAY beneficiaries in the period. 160 6.11. (b) Unemployment allowance for PWD: The PWD Act also provides for development of unemployment allowance (UA) schemes for PWD registered with employment exchanges for more than two years who have not found employment. The commitment is circumscribed by the phrase “within the limits of their economic capacity and development”, so that it is not a binding entitlement as such. Table 6.2 presents information on the states and UTs which have developed unemployment allowance schemes for PWD and the amounts of allowances, where available. Unemployment allowance schemes are available in 13 States/UTs and allowance amounts vary from Rs. 50 to Rs 500, which can be higher or lower than disability pension amounts depending on the state/UT. However, the majority of governments which have introduced the UA for PWD are either UTs or small north-eastern states. Among the major states, only Tamil Nadu, AP and West Bengal had schemes as of 2004. In addition, there appears to be some uncertainty on which states have such schemes. The CAG indicates that the MoSJE reported that additional states had introduced UA for PWD - including Karnataka, Maharashtra, HP and Manipur – but that CAG found that benefits were not being paid. 161 In addition, beneficiary data are not available. This suggests that reporting systems between states and the centre are less than adequate. 160 CAG, ibid. 161 CAG (2004). -111-
Table 6.2: States/UTs with unemployment allowance (Rs), 2004 State UA per month AP Rs. 75 Haryana Yes Meghalaya Rs. 50 Punjab Rs. 150 to 400 Sikkim Rs. 500 Tamil Nadu Rs. 200 to 300 Tripura Rs. 500 West Bengal Yes Andaman and Nicobar Rs. 100 Chandigarh Rs. 150 to 400 Daman and Diu Mizoram Yes Rs. 100/month Pondicherry Rs. 400 and 500 Source: MOLE. 6.12. (c) Social pensions for PWD: India has social assistance cash payments for destitute elderly, widows and PWD. There are other qualification criteria which vary somewhat by state, but broadly relate to the degree of support form immediate family and lack of current income of any significant level. Nationally, all states/UTs for which data are available have disability social pension schemes, with the monthly benefits level in 2004 ranging from as low as Rs. 60 in Chandigarh to Rs. 500 in West Bengal and Goa, around a national average for reporting states of close to Rs. 200. This may have increased since 2006 with an increase in the central funding for elderly social pensions to Rs. 200, which has been mimicked for disability social pensions in most states. Unfortunately, the beneficiary and spending numbers on disability “social pensions” are not consolidated to allow a national picture of coverage and spending. Nor does the NSS ask about such payments specifically. 6.13. Household survey data from 2004/05 provides the first nationally representative insight into coverage of disability social pensions, as well as into the incidence of coverage across different wealth categories and social groups. The findings are shown in Table 6.3 and 6.4 below. Several points are worth noting: • while coverage of disability social pensions is low across the entire population (at 0.3 percent of households nationally), they cover quite significant shares of households who have a disabled member (nationally, around 14 percent of such households) • there is wide variation across states in coverage rates. Given that disability social pensions are state-funded entirely, this reflects largely state-specific priority given to the program. However, the interesting feature is that coverage rates do not vary systematically according to the poverty rate in states (note that cross-state disability rates in official statistics are not very great). Thus some lagging states such as Orissa, MP and Rajasthan have good coverage rates, while some richer states such as TN and especially Gujarat have lower than average rates. • while state-specific benefit levels varied at the time of the survey, the median benefits reported as received by households indicate that there appears to be fairly low leakage of funds in terms of reporting beneficiaries getting less than their cash entitlements. -112-
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PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN INDIA:
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Abbreviations and Acronyms ADL ANM
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Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Figure 5.3: Employment rates of PWD
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Box 5.4: A Jobs Fair Bringing Emplo
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NGOs, both quantitative and qualita
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Out of school rates for CWD are hig
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needs to respond more proactively t
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government strategies for promoting
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Safety Net Schemes 33. Safety nets
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40. In early 2006, a National Polic
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should move to implement the Act’
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54. Addressing current and future p
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disability SHGs, which has been sho
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have comparative advantage is putti
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extent of individual functioning du
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converting income into well-being o
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not be explained by this. The major
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Table 1.2: Disability Prevalence ra
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The share of disability impact due
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• It is also important to recall
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1.17. A second issue with obvious i
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Figure 1.9: Employment rates of PWD
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Box 1.2: Census questions on disabi
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Box 2.1: Disability in Indian mytho
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• overall, there is low acceptanc
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different areas, as for example the
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governmental sectors drive home the
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Box 2.4: Raising awareness and chan
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• onset of mental disabilities is
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3.9. Locomotor disability is the ca
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B. Prevention of Disability 3.15. A
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3.20. The NBCP, like other vertical
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PWDs. The scheme operates in 11 cen
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Table 3.11: Type of Service Accesse
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Urban 1.46 North 1.40 South 1.10 Ea
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Box 3.1: WHO’s “Ten Question Pl
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3.51. (f) Financial barriers to acc
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including for road accidents, and e
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A. Indian and International Policy
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