DIMAPUR — The Nagaland State Disability Forum (NSDF) has called into question the sincerity of the state’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) team in the aftermath of an incident that had resulted in a display of insensitivity and inaccessibility during an event in Kohima on October 14. In a press statement issued on Sunday, the forum maintained that the event—launch of a coffee table book, Weaving Dreams – A Tribute to Inspiring Women of Nagaland, produced by the SDG Coordination Centre (SDGCC)—should have been an occasion to celebrate inclusivity but instead turned into a painful reminder of the pervasive exclusion faced by persons with disabilities (PwDs) in Nagaland. “The venue of the event was very shockingly inaccessible to one of the women featured in the book, i.e., Ms. Diethono Nakhro, State Disability Commissioner. Despite being invited and honoured in the book as an ‘inspiring’ woman, she was denied the basic dignity of attending the event due to the venue’s lack of accessibility. “This incident puts focus on the much larger issue of continued marginalisation of persons with disabilities in our state,” the statement read, adding that the incident was a clear violation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPwD),...