Gateway House hosted a roundtable discussion with experts on ‘Understanding public participation in India’s law making process’ for Lang Sheng, Head of Delegation and Member of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress and Vice Chairman of National People’s Congress Legislative Affairs Commission, and a delegation representing the legislative branch of National People’s Congress, on 3 December 2015. The discussion was moderated by Rajni Bakshi, Gandhi Peace Fellow, Gateway House.
Mr. Lang Sheng, is Head of Delegation and Member of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress and Vice Chairman of National People’s Congress Legislative Affairs Commission
Mr. Sheng graduated from China University of Political Science and Law in 1983. He previously served as the Director, the Deputy Director-General, and the Director-General of the Department of Criminal Law of NPCLAC. In March 2008, he became Member of the Standing Committee of the NPC, Member of the Committee for Internal and Judicial Affairs of NPC, and the Director-General of the Criminal Law Department of NPCLAC. Since December 2008, he has been serving as the Vice Chairman of the NPCLAC
Rajni Bakshi is the Gandhi Peace Fellow at Gateway House and a Mumbai-based author. She published a Research paper in October 2012 titled Civilizational Gandhi. Rajni has a BA from George Washington University and an MA from the University of Rajasthan. She is the author of Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom: for a market culture beyond greed and fear (Penguin, 2009), which won two Vodafone-Crossword Awards. Her earlier book, Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi (Penguin, 1998) inspired the Hindi film Swades starring Shah Rukh Khan.
Her other books include: Long Haul: the Bombay Textile Workers Strike 1982-83 (1986), A Warning and an Opportunity: the Dispute over Swami Vivekananda’s Legacy (1994), Lets Make it Happen: a backgrounder on New Economics (2003) and An Economics for Well-Being (2007). Rajni serves on the Boards of Child Rights and You (CRY) and Citizens for Peace. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture and a long term associate of Centre of Education and Documentation (Mumbai & Bangalore).