Government is focussing on enactment of a comprehensive law for differently-abled to fulfill India's international obligations following the ratification of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), Union Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot said today.
Speaking at the second session of the Working Group on the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022, the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government are fully committed to empowerment of persons with disability.
"We are presently focussing on enactment of a new comprehensive law to fulfill our international obligations following ratification of UNCRPD," he said.
Later, speaking to reporters at the sidelines of the event, Gehlot made an apparent reference to Right of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014, and said the legislation related to the rights of disabled is already under the consideration of Parliament.
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