GUWAHATI, April 8 � President Pratibha Devisingh Patil will formally inaugurate a two-day conference on �Access to Justice and Socio-Economic Development of North Eastern States�, organized by the North Eastern Region Committee for Access to Justice and Socio-Economic Development, DoNER, NALSA, IGNOU and Assam State Legal Services Authority at the Pragjyoti ITA Complex, Machkhowa, at 10-30 am on April 17.
Governor JB Patnaik will preside over the meeting where Justice Altamas Kabir of the Supreme Court of India and executive chairman, NALSA, Justice Mukundakam Sharma of the Supreme Court of India and chairman, Access to Justice & Socio-Economic Development Committee for North Eastern States, Acting Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Union Minister for DoNER BK Handique, Vice-Chancellor IGNOU, Prof VN Rajasekharan Pillai, chief coordinator Prof S Sivakumar, and other eminent persons will be present.
The two-day workshop on different subjects will follow the inauguration ceremony, where about 350 judicial officers and NGO activists from the NE States, including Sikkim, will participate.
Two workshops will be held simultaneously and will conclude in eight sessions. The topics for discussion in these sessions are: �Right to Education: A North Eastern Perspective�, �North-East and Media�, �Environment and sustainable Development�, �Drug Trafficking and AIDS-Measures to Control�, �Rights and Maintenance of Senior Citizens�, �Terrorism and Human Rights in North East�, �Human Trafficking for Child Labour and Prostitution, and �Domestic Violence and Gender Equality: North east Scenario.�
A host of dignitaries will grace the occasion, a press release said.
