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Delhi has second lowest disabled population
By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI,
FEB. 5
. The number of disabled persons per lakh of the population in the Capital has fallen compared to 1991.
This was revealed by the Delhi Finance and Planning Minister, Ashok Kumar Walia, during the release of the Annual Report on Mentally and Physically Challenged Persons in the Capital today.
Prepared by the Delhi Directorate of Economics and Statistics, according to the report, the number of disabled persons per lakh of population -- known as prevalence rate of disability -- has come down in Delhi from 1093 during 1991 to 707 during 2002.
Dr. Walia also informed that Delhi had the second least as far as prevalence rate of disabled persons was concerned followed by Chandigarh.
The highest prevalence rate of 2571 disabled persons per lakh population was in Himachal Pradesh.
The prevalence rate of disability in case of male in Delhi is 821 compared to 2000 at the national level.
In case of females, it is 567 per lakh persons in Delhi compared to 1,493 at the national level.
As per the report, the total number of disabled persons in Delhi as on October 1, 2002, is 102,427, which constitutes about 0.71 per cent of the total population of the city.
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