Social exclusion: Impact on physical disabled people in India

Pages: 1741-1743
Astha Sakshi and Rashmi Kumar (Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)

After the independence, India has progressive changes in some areas such as monetary development, exports, and foreign policies etc, but exclusion proceeded based on caste, disability, religion, ethnicity etc. Social Exclusion is defined as a process which involves opportunities which the majority enjoys and denial of rights, resulting in the inability of individuals from excluded groups to participate in the basic political, economic and social functioning of the society. Social Exclusion or Social marginalization is social disadvantage and regulation to the fringe of society. The objective of this study is to know the impact of Social exclusion on disabled people in India. In this study the data has been collected through secondary sources such journals, websites and other reliable sources. As a consequence of social exclusion, its impacts on the livelihood of the people such as increase in rate of poverty, health and others. The impact of exclusion has made the physical disabled group as a vulnerable community whose suffering has no end. The process of social exclusion system had made the disabled dependent on others for their very small needs. In the contemporary scenario due to their situation they are subjected to social, economically and politically exclusion. The most affected population is people with physical disability who lag in all spheres of development activities