According to Census 2011, there are 20, 17, 406 Person with Disabilities who constitute 2.21% of the total population of West Bengal. This includes Persons with visual, hearing speech, locomotor mental retardation, mental illness and multiple disabilities. District-wise popular of Persons with Disabilities on the basis of type of disability as per Census 2011 is as under:-
Dist: | Total PWDs | Seeing | Hearing | Speech | Movement | MR | MI | MD | Others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bankura | 77418 | 13122 | 10311 | 5403 | 15935 | 5784 | 3778 | 9906 | 13179 |
Birbhum | 75061 | 12636 | 10111 | 4467 | 17383 | 5179 | 3081 | 8853 | 13351 |
Burdwan | 152930 | 28969 | 24421 | 11942 | 25239 | 10925 | 5723 | 13599 | 32112 |
Coochbehar | 56831 | 11243 | 10336 | 3978 | 8414 | 3048 | 2137 | 5719 | 11956 |
Dakshin Dinajpur | 35713 | 7727 | 5034 | 2177 | 6028 | 2694 | 1038 | 3841 | 7174 |
Darjeeling | 40136 | 5808 | 10112 | 3262 | 4294 | 1796 | 1276 | 5434 | 8154 |
Hooghly | 109448 | 19681 | 14910 | 9542 | 18775 | 8897 | 4443 | 10354 | 22846 |
Howrah | 104949 | 22074 | 17857 | 8704 | 14418 | 8192 | 3306 | 8051 | 22347 |
Jalpaiguri | 82420 | 15679 | 13918 | 6700 | 13123 | 4731 | 3710 | 9733 | 14826 |
Kolkata | 121410 | 34040 | 22723 | 9133 | 11532 | 7652 | 3159 | 5297 | 27874 |
Malda | 84158 | 20005 | 13631 | 5678 | 12820 | 5820 | 2806 | 7870 | 15528 |
Murshidabad | 165505 | 32466 | 23833 | 11450 | 33203 | 12157 | 6379 | 18351 | 17531 |
Nadia | 93759 | 17130 | 10578 | 6057 | 20590 | 6773 | 4050 | 1108 | 17531 |
North 24 pgs | 219853 | 43998 | 40079 | 17582 | 28751 | 14017 | 7377 | 17020 | 51029 |
Paschim Medinipur | 143573 | 32576 | 21179 | 10553 | 22561 | 9863 | 4679 | 15217 | 26945 |
Purba Medinipur | 114088 | 23787 | 14437 | 8989 | 21254 | 8355 | 4155 | 13966 | 19145 |
Purilia | 61788 | 12173 | 11640 | 4279 | 10687 | 2973 | 2135 | 6693 | 11208 |
South 24 Pgs | 227129 | 60614 | 32965 | 13563 | 29707 | 14210 | 6524 | 20276 | 49270 |
Noth 24 Pgs | 51237 | 10745 | 7147 | 3877 | 8231 | 3457 | 1759 | 5241 | 10780 |
Total | 2017406 | 424473 | 315192 | 147336 | 322945 | 136523 | 71515 | 196501 | 402921 |