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The United Nations General Assembly in 1976 proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of the Disabled Persons. It is important to keep in mind that persons with disabilities are enthusiastic to overcome both social and economic barriers. The data used for the present study has been taken from the Census of India 2001. It covers type of disability, sex and residence as well as for the main workers, marginal workers and non-workers has given data. The number of workers have also be cateogrised by residence, type of disability and broad age groups. Economic dependency has been computed by dividing the non-worker disabled population by type of disabilities and sex by total working population. In the present paper an attempt is made to study the work participation rates among disabled peoples in India. It is observed that in India out of a population of 1.03 billion about 2.1 per cent population is disabled in one form or another. Out of the total of disabled about 49 per cent have the disability in seeing followed by disability in movement. Work participation among disabled people in India is about 35 per cent, males’ participation being double than those of the females. The work participation among the general population is higher than that among disables. It is observed that the economic dependency for the total area and all disables together is about 190 per cent, which is extremely high as compared to the age dependency ratio for the same. The economic dependency ratio even is much higher in urban areas. When economic dependency is considered by the type of disability it is observed that it is highest for those who have mental disability as compared to any other type of disability. Therefore, concludes the need to increase the work participation among disables especially among females.

Stream: Disability, Health

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At present I am working as Assistant Professor at DTRC, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. I have field level social research experience on Reproductive and Child Health, HIV/ AIDS and Family Health with in a span of 10 years of job experience. I have taught courses to Post-Graduate Students of DTRC: Population Theories, Population and Development, Indirect Techniques of Demographic Estimation, Family Planning Programmes and Their Evaluation, Reproductive Health and Family Planning Programs Management. My research aspirations in the field of mainstream demography, I mainly focus on the ‘demography of health’ with attention to a life course analysis of health risks, interventions and outcomes. A life course model is considered throughout the research to understand the occurrence frequency, timing and sequencing of life (health) events. My specific research interests are in the following areas: Reproductive and child health: Contraceptive dynamics (sterilization, in particular), Child nutrition, Poverty & Development, HIV/AIDS, Ageing, disability and Community Health.