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Pradeep Kumar

20/05/21 09:05 AM IST

CBID Program on Rehabilitation of Divyangjan

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Government Launches first of its kind Six- Month CBID Program on Rehabilitation of Divyangjan

Highlights
  • The Central Government has enacted the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016 which envisions a society inclusive of persons with disabilities. 
  • The course has been developed in collaboration with Melbourne University.
  • This would enable our country to develop trained manpower for rehabilitation and development of Divyangjan to ensure their empowerment and inclusiveness in the society.
  • This program will be first of its kind which will create trained manpower in identifying risk cases, apprising the parents/guardians about the nearest early intervention centres, and guiding them for availing Government benefits for Divyangjan.
  • The Rehabilitation Council of India and University of Melbourne have been working on this program since last two years. 
  • Initially the programme will be available in English, Hindi and 7 regional languages, namely, Gujarati, Marathi, Odiya, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Garo.
Aim

The program aims to create a pool of grass-root rehabilitation workers at community level who can work alongside ASHA and Anganwadi workers to handle cross disability issues and facilitate inclusion of persons with disabilities in the society. 

Source: PIB

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