Kalathil Ramakrishnan
Express News Service
Last Updated : 26 Nov 2011 12:18:15 PM IST
KASARGOD: Here is a good news for the people of Kasargod who are supposed to suffer from various diseases. The widespread propaganda that the district is hit by various diseases now stands exposed by the first report on disability which was published as per the Census of the government of India, 2001.
There was a hue and cry in the district by various environmental organisations that the people of the district suffered from various ailments when the data was being collected by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India in 2001. The latest disability data as per the Census of 2011 is yet to be published.
In the case of disabled population, the district has only 24 disabled persons per thousand.
The high percentage of disability is reported from Kollam and Idukki districts where the disability rate is 32 per thousand followed by Alappuzha (30 per cent)Pathanamthitta and Thiruvanandapuram (29 per cent) each. The disability data for Kozhikode district is 28 per thousand, Kottayam 28 and Kannur 24 per thousand.
According to the Census report, the movement disability is only seven per thousand in Kasargod, but it is higher with nine per thousand each in Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta .
Mental disability is lowest in Kasargod district with only three per thousand, but it is higher in most of the districts recording five per thousand.
As per the Census report, seeing disability is also lowest in Kasargod with nine per thousand. It is the highest in Idukki with 14 per thousand. But hearing disability is three per thousand in Kasargod with other districts recording more or less the same figure.
Source: http://expressbuzz.com/states/kerala/census-disproves-kasargod%E2%80%99s-high-disability-myth/337261.html
Express News Service
Last Updated : 26 Nov 2011 12:18:15 PM IST
KASARGOD: Here is a good news for the people of Kasargod who are supposed to suffer from various diseases. The widespread propaganda that the district is hit by various diseases now stands exposed by the first report on disability which was published as per the Census of the government of India, 2001.
There was a hue and cry in the district by various environmental organisations that the people of the district suffered from various ailments when the data was being collected by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India in 2001. The latest disability data as per the Census of 2011 is yet to be published.
In the case of disabled population, the district has only 24 disabled persons per thousand.
The high percentage of disability is reported from Kollam and Idukki districts where the disability rate is 32 per thousand followed by Alappuzha (30 per cent)Pathanamthitta and Thiruvanandapuram (29 per cent) each. The disability data for Kozhikode district is 28 per thousand, Kottayam 28 and Kannur 24 per thousand.
According to the Census report, the movement disability is only seven per thousand in Kasargod, but it is higher with nine per thousand each in Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta .
Mental disability is lowest in Kasargod district with only three per thousand, but it is higher in most of the districts recording five per thousand.
As per the Census report, seeing disability is also lowest in Kasargod with nine per thousand. It is the highest in Idukki with 14 per thousand. But hearing disability is three per thousand in Kasargod with other districts recording more or less the same figure.
Source: http://expressbuzz.com/states/kerala/census-disproves-kasargod%E2%80%99s-high-disability-myth/337261.html
I wish we could have a similar census of farmers in other parts of India where Endosulfan has been used successfully, economically, and safely, for DECADES. Further, what about beneficial insects? Do we know what has happened to their communities after the court restriction on Endosulfan?
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