Disability Research Centre (DRC) successfully organized Stakeholder workshop on Disability on 4th August 2015. Dr Ram Khantha Makaju Shrestha Vice Chancellor of Kathmandu University launched the Research Centre by clicking to launch the website of the Disability Research Center in the School of Arts web portal. Speaking at the function Dr Bimala Rai Poudyal, member of National Planning Commission, stressed on the need for society to be more sensitized on the special needs of persons with disability as well as the ‘diversity’ of disability. She also said that the Government and the NPC would be happy to collaborate with the Disability Research Center to better disseminate success stories, information about disability, validation of different findings as well as organizing policy discourses regarding disability. Dr. Rowank Khan, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Nepal said “UNICEF is very pleased to have collaborated with Kathmandu University, School of Art to establish the Research Centre and will continue to work closely in the future too.” The press coverage of the workshop can be viewed in following links: http://www.spotlightnepal.com/News/Article/UNICEF-KU-Launches-disaster-research-center http://aajakokhabar.com.np/news-details.php?nid=982