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National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (NCRPD) meeting was held in Delhi on 12-13 April, 2014. Nearly 25 leaders and experts from across disability and across the country participated in this very important meeting. NCRPD was formed in 2008 and has in the past, led advocacy initiatives vis-a-vis disability issues. In fact, the idea of a new law on disability came from a meeting of NCRPD (something that many opposed & ridiculed at that point). Day 1 of the meeting discussed important issues such as the way forward on ALL disability legislations; presentation form the Gujarat National Disability Network (NDN) partner; a presentation on rights of persons affected by leprosy and work done my Disabled Rights Group (DRG) and NDN in inclusion of disability in the formulation of the 12th Five Year Plan
Anuj Jain, Joint Secretary and Vishal Arora, Treasurer of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) at the National Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (NCRPD) meeting in New Delhi, India