Classification of Persons with Disability by Age

Age %
0-5 13.9%
6-12 28.87%
13-18 27.57%
19-35 13.33%
36-60 12.02%
60- 4.24%
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Number and Ratio of Pesons with Disabilities by Area

Savannakhet: 3,400
Luang Prabang: 2,700
Oudomxay: 1,900
Saravan: 1,300
Xayaboury: 1,000
Xieng Khoang: 1,250
Luang Namtha: 1,000
Phongsaly: 700
Bokeo: 300
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Export Trading Partners FY2002

United States: 23.4%
Hong Kong, Chinar: 4.7%
United Arab Emirates: 4.2%
United Kingdom: 5.3%
Germany: 4.4%
Japan: 3.9%
Other: 54.2%
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System of Major Ministries of the Government

Cabinet
1.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
2.Ministry of Railway
3.Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment
4.Ministry of Civil Aviation
5.Ministry of Rural Development and Employment
6.Ministry of Labour
7.Ministry of Surface Transport
8.Ministry of Human Resource Development
8.1 Department of Women and Child Development
8.2 Department of Science and Technology
9.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
9.1 National Institute for Visually Handicapped
9.2 National Institute for Hearing Handicapped
9.3 National Institute for Orthopaedically Handicapped
9.4 National Institute for Hearing Handicapped
9.5 National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped
9.6 National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research
  9.6.7 Institutes for the Locomoter Disabled
  9.6.8 Institutes for the Physically Handicapped
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Outlay on Major Schemes in Social Sector

Rural Development, employment and poverty alleviation: 42.0%
Education: 23.0%
Family welfare: 15.0%
Health :6.0%
Welfare :6.0%
Women and child development :6.0%
Other :2.0%
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Disability-Specific 1991

Physical Disability: 41.5%
Visually Impaired: 10.4%
Hearing Impaired: 8.4%
Speech Disability: 5.1%
Loco motors Disability: 23.1%
Overlapping: 11.6%
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Causes of Visual Disability 1991 Sample Survey

Old Age: 24.4%
Cataract: 25.8%
Eye Discharge: 11.9%
Glaucoma: 3.8%
Injury: 3.4%
Small Pox: 3.2%
Diarrhea: 1.2%
Other: 26.4%
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Causes of Speech Disability 1991 Sample Survey

Paralysis: 21.6%
Mental Illness: 9.1%
Voice Disorder: 7.7%
Injury :4.0%
Hearing Impairment: 3.4%
Cleft Palate: 2.0%
Other Illness: 21.4%
Old Age: 2.3%
Other: 28.8%
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Causes of Locomotor Disability 1991 Sample Survey

Palsy: 33.7%
Burns: 21.8%
Cardio Respiratory: 11.4%
Old Age: 5.2%
Cerebral: 4.6%
Leprosy: 3.5%
Polio: 2.5%
Smoke: 2.0%
Other Illness: 1.9%
Other: 13.7%
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Causes of Hearing Disability 1991 Sample Survey

Other Illness: 27.9%
Noice Induced Hearing Loss: 2.5%
Old Age: 5.6%
Ear Discharge: 23.1%
Other: 40.8%
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National and State Coordination Committees

Chairman (Cabinet Minister Government of India)
Consits of Two working line
Composition of System One are: Committee [Central Coordination Committee (CCC)]
  Committee [State Coordinatio Committees]
  Central Executive Committee (CEC)
  State Executive Committees
Composition of System Two are: Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
  Central Executive Committee (CEC)
  State Executive Committees
 
Comppsition of all Committees
Governmental Agencies Ministry of Education
  Ministry of Women and Child Development
  Ministry of Health
  Ministry of Rural Development
  Ministry of Urban Development
  Ministry of Employment
  Ministry of Labour
Non-Governmental Agencies Persons with Disabilities
  Association of PWDs
  NGOs

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The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE)

Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Minister of State Social Justice and Empowerment
Secretary
Addl.Secretary
Join Secretary
Disability Related Organizations under Join Secretary
District Rehabilitation Center
Director DD (3)
ALIMCO
National Institutions (Under National Institutions)1.NIMH 2.NIHH 3.NIVH 4. NIOH 5.NIRTAE 6.IPH
Composit Rehabilitation Center for PWDs(4)
Regional Rehabilitaiton Centre for Persons with Spinal Injury (4)
District Disability Rehabilitation Center (107)
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