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This paper elaborates the institutional and socioeconomic factors that effected the enrollment rate of physically disabled children in Quetta, district of Balochistan. The first section explains the general scenario of the policy instrument and major problems faced in improving the quality of education for the physically disabled children. The second part highlights the institutional and socioeconomic factors that influenced the enrollment rate of PDC in the study area. The required data and information were randomly gathered from 100 households where the physically disabled children lived. The primary data was collected through household questionnaire survey, group discussions, semi structured personal interviews and observation. On the other hand, secondary data included books, journal articles and websites. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The linear regression model was applied to analyze the factors effecting the “enrollment rate of physically disabled children” at primary level. The findings of this study revealed that the centralized policies and a number of socio-economic and institutional factors seemed to have significantly affected the enrollment and quality education in the case of physically disabled children, in the study area. For instance, there were only few schools functional in entire Balochistan. The other almost 30 districts of Balochistan lack the facility to educate the PDC. The crux of the findings reflected that as the number of PDC (boys and girls) increased at household level, the enrollment rate eventually increased. On the other hand, the enrollment rate decreased in join family system as well as where both the school teachers and family members treated physically disabled children with harsh behavior. We argue that only awareness and motivation could not help in improving the enrollment rate in the case of physically disabled children. We recommend the concerned organizations and authorities to develop and ratify specific policies and provide the required facilities to schools, including sufficient budget; and streamline the academic planning, effective monitoring and evaluation system. There is an urgent need to provide assistive devices and the immediate needs to rehabilitate all the enrolled and dropped out children in study area.
Amina Aziz Mengal1, Dr. Mumtaz A. Baloch2. (2017) Factors Effecting the Enrollment rate of physically disabled children in Quetta, Balochistan, Balochistan Review, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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