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Nidhi Goyal disability and gender rights activist i tweet @saysnidhigoyal -------------------------- While reading the report I found that the committee doesn't seem to be very much in tune with the UNCRPD and the discussion about the naming of the Bill sounds quite patronizing. I'm pasting the section here below: Title of the Bill 3.1 While examining the views of individuals/stakeholders and organizations on the Bill, it was pointed out to the Committee that the title of the Bill sounded derogatory and disparaging and therefore, needs to be modified. Across all section of stakeholders, an unanimous view emerged that the title of the Bill, may be changed and made preferably as ―Rights of Persons with Different Abilities or Special Abilities‖. 3.2 When the Ministry was asked to justify the existing title of the Bill, they in their written reply stated as under: ―The Bill is in line with UNCRPD. The UNCRPD uses the term Persons with Disabilities. Some Persons with Disabilities have objection to use of words 'differently abled' or 'specially abled‖. 3.3 The Committee are of the view that using the words “Persons with Disabilities” in the title of the Bill not only sound disparaging but also belittle the enormous talent, capacity and ability these persons possess to take up any challenge and compete with other normal human beings. Further, the present title itself declares them as „persons with disabilities‟ whereas the intention and purpose of the Bill is to empower them and give them their rightful due. In fact, the Committee themselves were awe-struck when they witnessed, during their close interaction with these people, the special knack and endowment of these people. The Committee are of the considered view that the present title of the Bill does not justify the talent and aptitude these persons own. The Committee, therefore, recommend that the Bill could be titled either as “The Rights of 24 Persons with the Different Abilities” or “The Rights of Persons with Special Abilities” or “The Rights of the Differently Able persons” which is not only more progressive and encouraging but will also help correct the discourse about the disabled people besides reducing their psychological complexes. On 8 May 2015 at 12:39, Vaishnavi Jayakumar <[email protected]> wrote: Please share widely : Standing committee report on <https://www.facebook.com/rpwdbill> RPWD Bill India is attached and also available at <http://bit.ly/RPWDreport> bit.ly/RPWDreport The reference documents leading to this are available at the online Scribd library collection : bit.ly/RPWDlibrary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Disability Studies India" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/disability-studies-india. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Shilpaa Anand Assistant Professor Department of English (Room No. 15) School of Languages, Linguistics and Indology Maulana Azad National Urdu University Hyderabad 500 032. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Disability Studies India" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/disability-studies-india. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
