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Unit 29: Apex Bodies on Special Education: RCI and NIMH

• To recognize degree/diploma/certificate awarded by foreign universities/ institutions on Notes
reciprocal basis.
• To promote research in Rehabilitation and Special Education.
• To maintain Central Rehabilitation Register for registration of professionals/ personnel.
• To collect information on a regular basis on education and training in the field of rehabilitation
of people with disabilities from institutions in India and abroad.
• To encourage continuing education in the field of rehabilitation and special education by way
of collaboration with organizations working in the field of disability.
• To recognize Vocational Rehabilitation Centres as manpower development centres
• To register vocational instructors and other personnel working in the Vocational Rehabilitation
Centres.
• To recognize the national institutes and apex institutions on disability as manpower development
centres.
• To register personnel working in national institutes and apex institutions on disability under
the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
Self Assessment

1. Fill in the blanks:
(i) Human resource development programmes ranging from training of grass root level
functionaries to master trainers are regulated by ........................ .
(ii) There are ........................ long term rehabilitation courses are standardized by the rehabilitation
council.
(iii) The one of the main objective of RCI is to regulate the training policies and programmes in
the field of ........................... of persons iwth disabilities.
(iv) Six cources are exclusively in the area of ................... which include all disabilities cover mental
retardation also.

29.3 RCI Act 1992 and Amendments 2000
An act to provide for the constitution of the Rehabilitation Council of India for regulating the training
of rehabilitation professionals and the maintenance of a Central Rehabilitation Register and for matters
connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has requested the RCI to submit a list of proposed
amendments to the RCI, ACT,
Accordingly, RCI has organized regional meetings and suggestions have been collected. At the
National Expert Meeting in Bhavanagar detailed discussions were held by each group. Subsequently
a sub-committee was constituted and a meeting was held to harmonize all the suggestions received
and adds new ones to make the amendments more broad based and more contemporary in terms of
RCI's present and future expanded role in HRD.
Objectives
• Human Resources Development
• Research and Development
• Development of models of care and rehabilitation.
• Documentation and dissemination.
• Consultancy services to voluntary organizations

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