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JULLANG, 17 Apr:<\/strong> The law department of the Himalayan University (HU) here organised a webinar on ‘Ambedkar’s philosophy for inclusive development’ recently.<\/p>\n During the webinar, which was organised as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, APSLSA Member Secretary Jaweplu Chai made a presentation on ‘Women empowerment and inclusive development’. She spoke on the rights and status of women in India in general and Arunachal Pradesh in particular.<\/p>\n Chai also dwelt on the customary laws governing married women’s right to property; inheritance of property by children of Arunachali mothers and non-Arunachali fathers; and the rights available to men and women under the law in the context of marriage, divorce, separation, polygamy, etc.<\/p>\n Protection of women under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Special Marriage Act, 1954, and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, etc, were also discussed.<\/p>\n Chai advocated conducting more legal awareness programmes on the topics discussed, and urged the HU’s law students to “play a proactive role by enrolling themselves as paralegal volunteers under the APSLSA.”<\/p>\n The programme was inaugurated by HU registrar Dr Sanjeev Srivastav, in the presence of proctor Dr Dipongpu Kamei, dean (academics & research) Dr Ghanshyam, and faculty members of the political science and the law departments of the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JULLANG, 17 Apr: The law department of the Himalayan University (HU) here organised a webinar on ‘Ambedkar’s philosophy for inclusive development’ recently. During the webinar, which was organised as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, APSLSA Member Secretary Jaweplu Chai made a presentation on ‘Women empowerment and inclusive development’. She spoke on the rights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-189048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}