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Rights Of Persons With Disabilities In India: Provisions, Promises And Reality, Triveni Goswami Vernal
Rights Of Persons With Disabilities In India: Provisions, Promises And Reality, Triveni Goswami Vernal
BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior
The paper Rights of Persons with Disabilities in India: Provisions, Promises and Reality traces the historical evolution of the disability related legal provisions in India briefly, in the context of the United Nations mandated Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (1975) and the Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD,2007). In such a scenario, the paper attempts to arrive at an understanding of the extent to which the provisions have been implemented. To this extent, the researcher conducted a series of telephonic interviews with several parent-advocates who have been vocal about disability rights in India. An …