Maharashtra Government’s Higher and Technical Education Department has constituted an expert committee that would help in steering the formation of independent Divyang University. Nagpur’s Dr Murlidhar Chandekar has been asked to head the committee. Dr Chandekar has worked as Vice Chancellor of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University. The 15-member expert committee is supposed to prepare a report with plan of action and submit it to the Government. There are a lot of students with disabilities pursuing various courses in higher education of their choice in different universities. There are four categories of such students which come under divyangs. “The committee would discuss the need for such an independent university and will suggest a plan of action,” Dr Chandekar informed ‘The Hitavada’. In a public programme in Pune, Chandrakant Patil, State Minister for Higher and Technical Education, had indicated that the State Government was considering the establishment of a new independent university for the divyang students. Government had already created a separate department for disabled welfare. The move to establish specialised university under the concept of inclusive education is defined in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 which is also encouraged under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.