Report of The Technical Advisory Committee on Disability Statistics April, 2006

Abstract

From Introduction: A Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Disability Statistics was constituted by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation on January 2005. The Committee was entrusted with the work to review the conceptual framework and definition for the measurement of disability and to examine the reasons of variations in the estimates of disability as obtained from NSSO 2002 Survey and Census 2001. The Committee met four times and deliberated on the various aspects of the disability statistics including reasons for variations in the estimates of disability as available from the two sources of the data. The first two meeting were chaired by Dr. G. Raveendran, the then Additional DG. After the superannuation of Dr. G. Raveendran, Dr. K.V. Rao, Additional DG, NSSO (FOD) was made the Chairman of the TAC. Two meetings were held under the Chairmanship of Dr. K.V. Rao, Specialist Doctors from Safdarjang Hospital and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital were invited in the sixth meeting to give their views for finalizing the definitions on various disabilities.