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Disability - Challenges Vs Responses by Ali Baquer, Anjali Sharma

Data On Trained Manpower Requirements In The Field Of Disability

Data Showing status of Trained Manpower in the field of Disability
(Source : Report on Manpower Development. 1996. Rehabilitation Council of India, Ministry of Welfare, Government of India)

Table - 1 No. of Institutes offering Training Courses in Rehabilitation

S. No.	Mentally Retarded	Visually Handicapped	Hearing Impaired	Locomotor Handicapped	Total
1.	40	17	32	27	116

Table - 2 Available Trained Manpower

S. No.	Mentally Retarded	Visually Handicapped	Hearing Impaired	Locomotor Handicapped	Total
1.	5116	1459	5288	1502	13365

Tabel - 3 Category–wise Breakup of above Trained Manpower

S. No.	Fieldwise	Degree	Diploma	Certificate	Total
1.	Mentally Retarded	194	3992	30	4216
2.	Visually Handicapped	283	1176	-	1459
3.	Hearing Impaired	996	4292	-	5288
4.	Locomotor Handicapped				484 812 206 1502

Table - 4 Profession–wise Breakup

S. No.	Field	Special Teachers/ Special Educators	Delivery of Service to the Disabled
1.	Mentally Retarded	4295	821
2	Visually Handicapped	1079	380
3.	Hearing Impaired	4011	1277
4.	Locomotor Handicapped	107	1395

Table 5

S.No.	Training Centres	No. Of Trained Physiotherapists
1.	10	200

Table - 6 No. of Universities offering qualifications in the field of rehabilitation

State–wise Breakup

S.No.	State	Name of the Universities	Qualification	No.	Total
1.	Andhra Pradesh	i) Andhra University ii) Sri Padmawati Vishwa Vidyalaya	B.Ed.(O.H.) B.Ed.(H.I.)	1 1	2
2.	Delhi	i) Jamia Millia Islamia ii) AllMS (Deemed Univ.)	M.Ed., B.Ed. (Spl. Edu) B.Sc. (Spl.Edu)	1 1	2
3.	Haryana	Kurukshetra University	B.Ed., M.Ed. (Spl. Edu)	1	1
4.	Madhya Pradesh	Chitrakoot University	B.Ed. (V.H.)	1	1
5.	West Bengal	Calcutta University	P.G. Diploma(Psychology)	1	1
No. of Universities offering qualification in the field of rehabilitation.				7	7

On the basis of available information the following table shows the number of training schools and the projected number of teachers in these schools.

Table - 7 The following table shows the disability–wise breakup.

S.No.	Category of Personnel	Estimated No. of Schools	Estimated No. of Teachers	Nos. to be trained in the IXth Plan	Nos. to betrained in the Xth Plan
1.	Hearing Impaired	500	7500	15000	30000
2.	Mentally Retarded	650	9750	19500	39000
3.	Visually Handicapped	250	3750	7500	15000
4.	Cerebral Palsy	-	-	1000	2000
5.	Multiple disabled children	-	-	1000	2000
			22000	44000	88000

Table 8 shows all the category of personnel to be trained in the IXth and Xth plan period.

Table - 8 Manpower requirement for all disabilities

S. No.	Category of Personnel	Nos. to be trained in the IXth Plan	Nos. to be trained in the Xth Plan
1.	Teachers of Hearing impaired children	15000	30000
2.	Teachers of Mentally retarded children	19500	39000
3 .	Teachers of Visually Handicapped children	7500	15000
4 .	Teachers of Cerebral Palsy children	1000	2000
5.	Teachers of Multiple disabled children	1000	2000
6.	Physiotherapist/occupational therapists	2000	4000
7.	Orthotic/Prosthetic Engineers	1000	2000
8.	Speech Pathologist/audiologist/ear mould technicians	3200	6400
9.	Rehabilitation Engineers	500	1000
10.	Clinical Psychologists	100	200
11.	Rehabilitation Psychologists	2000	4000
12.	Vocational Instructors	2,50,000	5,00,000
13.	Medical Psychiatric social workers	1000	2000
14.	CBR workers	50,000	1,00,000
15.	MRWs	5000	10000
16 .	Physiotherapists	.1000	2000
17.	Master Trainers	500	1000
18.	Pre-School Teachers	1000	2000
19.	Low Vision Teachers	1000	2000
		3,62,300	7,24,600

Table - 9 Centres Required

S. No.	Cetegory of Personnel	Manpower Projected in the IXth Plan	Centres required	Remarks
	PT/OT	2000	100	No additional centre
	Ortho/Prosth	1000	10
	Speech Pathologist/audiologists	3200	30	-
	Rehabilitation Engineers	500	5
	Clinical Psychologists	100	2	No additional centre
	Rehabilitation Psychologists	2000	20	1yr. programme
	Vocational Instructors	2,50,000	2000
	Medical psychiatric social workers	1000	-	no addition
	CBR Workers	1 lac	1000
	Master Trainers	500	-	No addition UGC/Univ. sponsored programme.
	Pre-school Teachers	1000	10
	Low Vision Teachers	1000	10
	Teachers for all catagories of disabled	44000	2200
	Total		5387

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