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A STUDY ON THE REHABILITATION FACILITIES PROVIDED BY THE
GOVERNMENT TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES &
ITS AWARENESS IN THE SOCIETY


Major General Vijay P Pawar*, Dr George Judah

*Research Scholar, AVSM, VSM (Retired)


ABSTRACT

Indian population is facing a large number of challenges like gender disparity, poverty,
illiteracy and so on. The Government is making every effort to provide equal opportunity to each
individual in the country that has a large population of 1.27 billion. Persons with disabilities must get
opportunity to have better and healthier life in society like any other person and that is the need of
the day. To meet this requirement, Society and Government play an important role. This study was
carried out with an objective to understand the need of the government schemes which are available
for the people with disabilities. Primary research was carried out to understand the society awareness
of these facilities provided by the government, so that we can analyse the utility of the facilities.
Study has revealed that there are great needs of the governmental support, which can be offered to
the needy. Around 2% and more of the population in India & Maharashtra are with disabilities and
this number is large. We need to look into betterment of these persons. Peoples awareness about the
schemes & support for rehabilitation is still low which must be increased through advertisement or
any other promotion activity. Accessibility of the facilities for the disabled and those who are
looking into their welfare can be improved only by the awareness of availability.

OBJECTIVES

To find the need for rehabilitation of people with disabilities in Pune.
To study useful schemes the government has launched for disabled people.
To know of the general awareness of the people about Rehabilitation Centres and facilities.

Hypothesis

H1: There is significance between age & awareness about rehabilitation facilities available.

H2: There is significance between the level of awareness between any facilities provided like
Reservation in jobs, Scholarship in education & other concessional schemes.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

i) Research Design: It is Exploratory and Descriptive Research as it an analysis the Research
problem to find the need and facilities available for the people with disabilities by exploring
secondary data of the population. Secondly the primary research was carried out to understand the
awareness of the people about the facilities available for disabled people for better employment.

ii) Sampling Design: Universe: Individuals in Pune with minimum 10
th
Class Pass.
Sample Frame: From Wakead, Dange Chowk, Chinchwad, Wanowari, Saswad. Hadapsar and parts
of Pune. Sample units: Each individual. Type of Sampling: Non probabilistic Convenience
Sampling. Sampling Size: This study is based on the sample of 127 People.

NEED FOR REHABILITATION

Disabled People in the country are 2.2% of the population. Among the total disabled in the
country, 12.6 million are males and 9.3 million are females as per census of 2001. As per National
Sample Survey Organization's (NSSO) Survey 2002, the number of disabled persons in the country
is 18.49 million and they form about 1.8% of the total estimated population. The census 2001
indicates that 2.2% of the total population is affected by disability. Reputed foreign studies indicate
that the correct population of disabled is anywhere around 10%. For this study all figures are based
on disabled population of 2.2%.

Disabled Population according to census 2011 in India

Total India Population Persons 1210193422
Total number of disabled persons Persons 268,10,557
2.2% of total population
Males 149,86,202
Females 118,24,355
In seeing Persons 50,32,463
In Hearing Persons 50,71,007
In Speech Persons 19,98,535
In Movement Persons 54,36,604
Mental Retardation Persons 15,05,624
Mental Illness Persons 7,22,826
Any Other Persons 49,27,011
Multiple Disability Persons 21,16,487

As we can see from the above data the total population of disable people has increase by .1%
of 1211 million, therefore we can say that need of Rehabilitation is increasing for the better country.

Disabled Population according to census 2011 in Pune

Total India Population Persons 9429408
Total number of
disabled persons
Persons 207446.976
(Around 2 Lakhs People, figures worked out on the basis
of 2.2 % of total population)
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Reservation for Physically Handicapped people in India
Reservation in Govt. job:
In Group 'C' and 'D' posts under the Government employed, reservations are provided in
direct recruitment for physically handicapped persons. A few examples of such posts are as indicated
below.
Category of handicapped / Percentage of reservation

i. Visually handicapped 1%
ii. Orthopaedic ally handicapped 1%
iii. Hearing handicapped 1%

Scholarship
The State Govt. awards scholarship to disabled persons from Class I to Class VIII.
Assistance for self-employment:
Financial assistance is given for self-employment to the disabled persons.

Assistance for purchase of aids & appliances
Assistance is provided to the concerned handicapped persons in order to improve his/her mobility
Financial assistance for medical treatment in mainland is available.

In Government Jobs
3% reservation is available in Government jobs for physically handicapped persons in Group
'C' and Group 'D' posts.
The state government has decided that 1% vacancy of each for the Blind, the Deaf and for the
Orthopaedic ally Handicapped in Class III and Class IV services of Govt. and comparable posts in
the Public Sector Undertakings and local bodies.

In Educational institutions
2% seats are reserved for handicapped for extension programme like short termcourses in the
following:

Categories Program
Mental Retardation Awareness Programme
Learning disability 1% seat is reserved for handicapped for admission in Technical
Institutions

Scholarship/Stipend: Awards Rs.30/- P.M. as scholarship from Class I to Class VIII, if
family income is less than Rs.4,800/- P.M
Maintenance Allowance
(Through Institutions / NGOs)
Disabled persons whose age is 55 years and above, assistance
provide by NGOs @ Rs.125/- P.M
Unemployment allowance

Unemployed graduates are sent to work in Government Offices
and given Rs.100/- for 15 days. They have to work for 4 hours per
day.
Conveyance allowance: Government. employees get 5% of the basic or Rs.100/- P.M. for
attending office
Bus Concession 75% concession in bus fares to blind, deaf and Orthopaedic ally
Handicapped persons
Assistance for self-
employment

Financial assistance up to Rs.1000/- is given to the trained
disabled person.
A margin money scheme is implemented by State Govt. for
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starting self-employment by disabled persons. Project up to
Rs.25,000/- are considered for financial assistance. Out of this
80% will be Bank Loan and 20% from the Government
(Limited to Rs.5,000/-)
Awards/Sports/Seminars: State Govt. gives awards to disabled for excellence in any work
done
Exemption in professional
tax/road tax
Physically handicapped persons are totally exempted from paying
professional tax from 1987-88. Physically handicapped persons
are also exempted from paying road tax.
Assistance for purchase of aids
& appliances

Handicapped persons whose income is up to Rs.1500/- P.M. are
entitled to 100% grant on aids and appliances, for those whose
income is between Rs.1,501/- to Rs.2,000/- are entitled 50%
assistance. The maximum limit of assistance and appliances is
Rs.3,000/-. Handicapped persons are also eligible for Rs.150/- as
conveyance allowance and Rs.10/- for lodging and boarding per
day up to maximum of Rs.100/- for attending rehabilitation camps
for aids and appliances.

Primary Data Analysis

1. Qualification

Qualification
Below 10th 3
Higher secondary pass 12
Graduated 44
Graduate above 68


89% of the responded are graduates& above, so study was carried on good educated class.

2. Age

Age
20-30 24
30-40 84
40 & Above 19
2%
9%
35%
54%
Qualification
Below 10th Higher secondary pass Graduated Graduate above
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92% of the respondents are below 40

3. Know any person with disabilities

Yes
No


Only 37% of the samples were aware of persons with disabilities.

4. Aware about the following types of disabilities

Aware about the following types of disabilities
Type
Visually handicapped
Orthopaedic ally handicapped
Hearing handicapped

know any person with disabilities
0
50
100
150
Visually
handicapped
62
65
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92% of the respondents are below 40 years of age. Responded are of young generation.
Know any person with disabilities
Know any person with disabilities
47
80
Only 37% of the samples were aware of persons with disabilities.
following types of disabilities
Aware about the following types of disabilities
Yes No
Visually handicapped 62 65
Orthopaedic ally handicapped 62 65
Hearing handicapped 61 66
18%
64%
18%
Age
20-30 30-40 40 & Above
37%
63%
know any person with disabilities
Yes No
Visually
handicapped
Orthopaedic
ally
handicapped
Hearing
handicapped
62 62 61
65 65 66
Yes No
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Around 50% of the responded are aware about the type of disabilities; people must be
educated on this aspect so that others can help the needy and understand the people with disabilities
better.

5. Are you aware about what type of governmental support is provided

Are you aware about what type of governmental support is provided
Yes 49
No 78



38% of the people are aware about the governmental schemes & facilities. This awareness
must be increased then only many people will be able to avail the facilities being offered by the
Government.

6. Facilities Awareness

Facility
Rating: 1 to 5 Scale
1: Fully aware, 2:Aware 3: Neutral 4: Not
Aware 5: Fully Unaware
Reservation in Government Job 20 38 39 22 8
Scholarship/Stipend 18 30 33 34 12
Maintenance Allowance (Through
Institutions/NGOs)
11
14 51 40 11
Unemployment allowance 8 10 33 49 27
Conveyance allowance 20 20 42 30 15
Bus Concession 24 29 33 45 16
Assistance for self-employment 16 17 40 41 13
Awards/Sports/Seminars 15 19 37 40 16
Exemption in professional tax/road tax 12
16 40 39 20
Assistance for purchase of aids &
appliances
13 7 39 32 36




38%
62%
Are you aware about what type of
governmental support is provided
Yes No
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Awareness for the Reservation in Government jobs & educational scholarship are high as
more no. of people given fully aware & aware opinion regarding this two schemes. Other schemes
are need to be promoted, people must be educated & communicated on, so that needy can reach to
the service. In data analysis, only the score of wt. avg. for these two schemes is acceptable to be
aware region bellow 3(Neutral Point.)

Hypothesis 1
H1: There is significance between age & awareness about rehabilitation facilities available

Chi-Square Test
Frequencies

Test Statistics
Age awareness_about_Govt_support
Chi-Square 41.843
a
3.962
b

df 2 1
Asymp. Sig. .000 .026
a. 0 cells (.0%) have expected frequencies less than 5. The minimum
expected cell frequency is 51.4.
b. 0 cells (.0%) have expected frequencies less than 5. The minimum
expected cell frequency is 73.0.

Null Hypothesis is rejected; there is a significance relationship between Age & awareness
about the Governmental support provided to people with disabilities. It can be said that aged people
are more aware about the governmental support to people with disabilities.

Hypothesis 2:
H2: There is significance between the level of awareness between any facilities provided like
Reservation in jobs, Scholarship in education & other concessional schemes

Test Statistics

Reservation
_Govt_Jobs
Schola
rship
Maintena
nce_Allow
ance
Unemploy
ment_allo
wance
Conveya
nce_allo
wance
Bus_Conc
ession
Assistance_f
or_selfempl
oyment Awards
Exemption_in_
professional_ta
x
Assistan
ce_for_p
urchase_
of_aids_
applianc
es
Chi-
Square
29.023
a
31.775
a
31.234
a
145.712
a
65.642
a
79.430
b
67.127
a
93.763
b
221.632
a
181.321
b

df 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 3
Asymp.
Sig.
.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

Null Hypothesis is rejected; there is a significance difference in the level of awareness of the
scheme provided by the government.



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CONCLUSIONS

The study carried out reveals that more than 2% of the population in India is suffering from
different types of disabilities and this is a matter of concern to rehabilitation bodies to organise
facilities that need to be provided to the disabled for a better life. Government has organised to
provide many facilities for the disabled like Reservations, Scholarships and Concessions at Centre
and State level. The monetary amount being given seems to be low in todays economic environment
and this can be revised, so also better awareness of the facilities being provided need to be generated
as less than 38% persons are aware about these facilities. There is significant relationship between
age and awareness of the people. We can see that as age grows persons awareness about the
schemes for the people with disabilities increases. This awareness can be further improved by many
ways for better utilization of the facilities being provided to the needy people. All the facilities are
not known equally among the people. There are also significant differences in the awareness of
different schemes - reservations and educational concessions are popularly known but other schemes
must be promoted as awareness about these schemes is low.

SUGGESTIONS

Amounts towards Scholarships and all other monetary aids can be increased as it is low in
todays economic environment. The higher revised values if offered by the government, will be
helpful to up-liftment of the disable person.
Awareness regarding disabilities, difficulties and the facilities available amongst all
categories of persons must increase as it is very low.

LIMITATIONS

The Study was based on samples, so finding may vary from population to population and
sample to sample.
Exact Population size was taken under study was from census 2001, so data will be changing
every day.
Scheme s for the disabled will vary from country to country and state to state, so this study
may not be true in different countries or states where disabled are really cared for.

FUTURE SCOPE

Culture and Society of a region would play an important role for impacting social life of the
people and the disabled. Social factor can have a major impact in looking after disabilities of all
types. Further study can be carried out by considering the social dimension.

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[3] www.disabilityindia.co.in/useful-information.
[4] www.pcmcindia.gov.in.