Lok Sabha Question No. 3517 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-17
Subject: Disability Statistics and Initiatives by National Trust
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: Shri Karti P Chidambaram

## Government of India

## Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3517

TO BE ANSWERED ON:  17.12.2024

## DISABILITY STATISTICS AND INITIATIVES BY NATIONAL TRUST

## 3517. Shri Karti P Chidambaram:

Will the MINISTER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of disabled people identified by the 2011 Census;
- (b) the number of people issued disability certificates, State-wise;
- (c) the number of people issued UDID (Unique Disability ID) cards, State-wise;
- (d) the number of guardianship certificates have been issued by the National Trust since the year 2000; and
- (e) whether there is any proposal to establish offices of the National Trust in the States/UTs?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT

(SHRI B L VERMA)

- (a): As per Census, 2011, 2.68 Cr persons have been identified as Persons   with Disabilities.
- (b)  to  (c)  :  As  per  Section  57  of  the  RPwD  Act,  2016,  the  authority  responsible  for  issuing Disability Certificates is the State Government. Before the UDID project was launched in 2017, all States were issuing disability certificates manually. The State- wise data of manual disability certificates is not maintained centrally. As per record available on 12.12.2024, the State-wise details of Unique Disability ID (UDID) cards issued are as follows:

|   Sl.No. | State/UT Name               |   Total Generated Cards |
|----------|-----------------------------|-------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman And Nicobar Islands |                    6287 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh              |                  964836 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh           |                    4010 |
|        4 | Assam                       |                  217324 |
|        5 | Bihar                       |                  559913 |
|        6 | Chandigarh                  |                   11166 |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh                |                  256512 |
|        8 | Delhi                       |                   82175 |
|        9 | Goa                         |                   11082 |
|       10 | Gujarat                     |                  435458 |

| 11.   | Haryana                                      | 201697      |
|-------|----------------------------------------------|-------------|
| 12.   | Himachal Pradesh                             | 99642       |
| 13.   | Jammu And Kashmir                            | 205029      |
| 14.   | Jharkhand                                    | 190159      |
| 15.   | Karnataka                                    | 828714      |
| 16.   | Kerala                                       | 361447      |
| 17.   | Ladakh                                       | 3781        |
| 18.   | Lakshadweep                                  | 1056        |
| 19.   | Madhya Pradesh                               | 902587      |
| 20.   | Maharashtra                                  | 1186285     |
| 21.   | Manipur                                      | 13691       |
| 22.   | Meghalaya                                    | 32245       |
| 23.   | Mizoram                                      | 6240        |
| 24.   | Nagaland                                     | 3139        |
| 25.   | Odisha                                       | 752497      |
| 26.   | Puducherry                                   | 21970       |
| 27.   | Punjab                                       | 358096      |
| 28.   | Rajasthan                                    | 555480      |
| 29.   | Sikkim                                       | 5184        |
| 30.   | Tamil Nadu                                   | 855514      |
| 31.   | Telangana                                    | 775294      |
| 32.   | The Dadra And Nagar Haveli And Daman And Diu | 4044        |
| 33.   | Tripura                                      | 38012       |
| 34.   | Uttar Pradesh                                | 1425217     |
| 35.   | Uttarakhand                                  | 96559       |
| 36.   | West Bengal                                  | 60162       |
|       | Total                                        | 1,15,32,504 |

(d): As per record available, 72,159 Legal Guardianship certificates (till 12th December, 2024) have been issued by the Local Level Committees constituted under Section 13(2) of the National Trust Act, 1999 with District Collector as the Chairperson.

(e) : There is no such proposal under consideration in the Department.

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