Lok Sabha Question No. 1918 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-14
Subject: Disability Certificate
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: K.R.P. PRABAKARAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (Divyangjan)

## MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT

## LOK SABHA

## Disability Certificate

## 1918. SHRI KRP. PRABAKARAN:

## Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that many of the disability certificates issued by the States are not valid across the country;
- (b) if the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereto; SO,
- (c) whether the Government has any plan to increase the number of categories of physical disability and if the details thereof; SO,
- (d) whether the Government has conducted any survey in all the States across the country to collect data on the number of disabled persons ~there;-and living

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

(SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)

- (b) In order to solve this problem the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 notified by the Government on 28.12.2016 mandates validity of the disability certificate   issued by certifying authority across the country. Further; the Ministry has developed a web-based software application for issuance of disability certificate with Unique Identity Card to all persons with disabilities across the country along
- (c) In the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act; 2016 notified on 28.12.2016, the following disabilities are recognized as against earlier 7 disabilities:

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1918 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.03.2017

## 1. Physical disability:

- A. Locomotor Disability, including:
2. (b). Cerebral Palsy
3. (a). Leprosy Cured persons
4. (c) Dwarfism
5. (e). Acid Attack victim
6. (d). Muscular Dystrophy
- B. Visual impairment:
8. (6): Low vision
9. (a). Blindness
10. C.Hearing Impairment:
11. (b): hard of hearing
12. (a). Deaf
- D. Speech and language disability

## 2. Intellectual disability, including:

- (6). Autism Spectrum Disorder
- (a). Specific Learning Disabilities

## 3. Mental Illness

## 4. Disability caused due to

- (i) Multiple Sclerosis
- (a). Chronic Neurological conditions, such as
- (ii) Parkinsons disease
- (a): Blood Disorder
- (i) Hemophilia
- (iii) Sickle Cell disease
- (ii) Thalassemia

## 5. Multiple Disabilities including deaf blindness

(d) (e) As per Census 2011 there are 2.68 crore persons with disabilities. State-wise population of persons with disabilities is at Annexure

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (d) & (e) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1918 for answer on 14.03.2017 regarding 'Disability Certificate"

| State/UT_wise population_   | State/UT_wise population_   | State/UT_wise population_                                       |
|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| S.No:                       | State                       | Total population of persons with disabilties as per Census 2011 |
| a                           | b                           |                                                                 |
| 1                           | Andhra Pradesh              |                                                                 |
|                             | Arunachal Pradesh           | 26734                                                           |
|                             | Assam                       | 480065                                                          |
|                             | Bihar                       | 2331009                                                         |
|                             | Chhattisgarh                | 624937                                                          |
|                             | Delhi                       | 234882                                                          |
|                             | Goa                         | 33012                                                           |
|                             | Gujarat                     | 1092302                                                         |
| 9                           | Haryana                     | 546374                                                          |
| 10                          | Himachal Pradesh            | 155316                                                          |
| 11                          |                             | 361153                                                          |
| 12                          | Jharkhand                   | 769980                                                          |
| 13                          | Karnataka                   | 1324205                                                         |
| 14                          | Kerala                      | 761843                                                          |
| 15                          | Madhya Pradesh              | 1551931                                                         |
| 16                          | Maharashtra                 | 2963392                                                         |
| 17                          | Manipur                     | 58547                                                           |
| 18                          | Mizoram                     | 15160                                                           |
| 19                          | Meghalaya                   | 44317                                                           |
| 20                          | Nagaland                    | 29631                                                           |
| 21                          | Odisha                      | 1244402                                                         |
| 22                          | Punjab                      | 654063                                                          |
| 23                          | Rajasthan                   | 1563694                                                         |
| 24                          | Sikkim                      | 18187                                                           |
| 25                          | Tamil Nadu                  | 1179963                                                         |
| 26                          | Telangana                   | 1046822                                                         |
| 27                          | Tripura                     | 64346                                                           |
| 28                          | Uttar Pradesh               | 4157514                                                         |
| 29                          | Uttarakhand                 | 185272                                                          |
| 30                          | West Bengal                 | 2017406                                                         |
| 31                          | A&N Islands                 | 6660                                                            |
| 32                          | Chandigarh                  | 14796                                                           |
| 33                          | Daman & Diu                 | 2196                                                            |
| 34                          | D& N Haveli                 | 3294                                                            |
| 35                          | Lakshadweep                 | 1615                                                            |
| 36                          | Puducherry                  | 30189                                                           |
|                             | Total                       | 26814994                                                        |