The regional training was organised in collaboration with RPS Law College Patna and was intended to train young lawyers, activists from 6 States of Central and East India and law students on the newly legislated Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act of 2016. Senior lawyers and activists delivered the training , detailed the provisions of the Act and shared important case laws which have positively impacted persons with disabilities in the areas of Accessibility, Employment, Education etc. The training programme envisaged that post the training activists and DPOs would be able to use provisions of the law whilst advocating for their rights and entitlements with government officials and duty bearers; young lawyers would learn from their senior counterparts and use the new law to challenge discriminations and; young law students would learn from social movements of persons with disabilities in rural parts of the targeted states of Central and East India.