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‘Disability Act amendment in next session’

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New Delhi: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said the government hoped to pass amendments to the Rights of the Disabled Act in the next session of Parliament.

“The Disabilities Act, 1995, is being amended in accordance to the United Nations convention. The Cabinet has recently approved the amendments and I am confident that in the next Parliament session we would get it passed,” she said at Samarth, a function organised to showcase the special abilities of disabled children here. (IANS)

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