Webinar – Draft National Policy for Persons with Disabilities

Post published:June 27, 2022
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Webinar – ‘Draft National Policy for Persons with Disabilities, 2021: Expectations, Assurances and Realities’ – 05 July 2022

About GNLU

Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar, is one of the premier national law universities in India. The university offers Under Graduate, Post Graduate, and Ph.D. Courses in law as well as many interdisciplinary areas. The University is a forerunner in the field of interdisciplinary research. The University has established various centers of excellence to carry out research, training, and extension activities

About GCDS

The University established GNLU Centre for Disability Studies (GCDS) with an aim to work for the rights of disabled people and promotion of social justice through teaching and research in the interdisciplinary areas of sociology, social work, law, and policy. Through curriculum development, research projects, and disability studies, the Centre aims to provide meaningful contributions in the areas of disability and human rights, disability and society, accessibility and reasonable accommodations, inclusive education, gender, and disability, amongst others.

About the Webinar

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India has published Draft National Policy for Persons with Disabilities, 2021, and has invited comments from the public. The existing policy for Persons with Disabilities was adopted in 2006. Since then, a number of developments have taken place in the disability sector like the signing of the UNCRPD by India, the enactment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, and the adoption of the National Education Policy, 2020. Therefore, the new policy has been framed by the Task Force constituted by the Committee which was constituted to review the 2006 policy and suggest a new draft National Policy.

To discuss the new draft policy, GNLU Centre for Disability Studies along with Sruti Disability Rights Centre is organizing a webinar titled ‘Draft National Policy for Persons with Disabilities, 2021: Expectations, Assurances, and Realities’ to discuss different aspects of the Draft Policy like Sports, Education, Rights of Women with Disabilities, Accessibility, etc. for the persons with disabilities. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, 05 July 2022 from 5 P.M. onwards.

Speakers for the webinar are:

Prof. (Dr.) S. Shanthakumar, Director, GNLU
Shampa Sengupta, Director, Sruti Disability Rights Centre
Mr. Muralidharan, Secretary, National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled, Delhi
Ms. Padmini Chennapragada, Ph.D, Disability Sport Researcher
Rahul Bajaj, Senior Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Dr. A. Marisport, Head, GCDS

For Registration, Please Click Here / https://forms.gle/wR4hzNNetrHVdmiz5

E-Certificate will be provided to all the registered attendees who fill out the feedback form after 15 days of the Webinar. For queries, if any, kindly write to us at gcds@gnlu.ac.in