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Employment opportunities for disabled bleak in Northeast
Times of India | PTI | Jun 26, 2012, 11.38AM IST
The prevailing employment scenario for people with disabilities in the Northeast is very bleak with an estimated 83 per cent of them being unemployed.
Of the 17 per cent employed disabled people, women constitute just four per cent, according to a study conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, in collaboration with an NGO called " Shishu Sarothi".
The study reveals that 51.7 per cent of the disabled people are afflicted with vision impairment, 18.9 per cent with locomotor disability, 15.5 per cent with hearing impairment, 6.9 per cent with mental retardation, five per cent with speech retardation and 1.9 per cent with mental illness
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