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Rehabilitation Council of India act 1992 B.ed Notes
The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) was created as a registered society in 1986 under the Ministry of Social Welfare – Government of India, with the goal of maintaining and regulating the level of training professionals. After some time had passed, the government passed the Rehabilitation Council of India Act in 1992 to give the council more authority. The statute granted the institute the status of a statutory entity. The statute was altered, nevertheless, in 2000. After then, everyone serving or wanting to help the crippled must possess credentials recognized by India’s Rehabilitation Council (RCI).
The General Council, Executive Committee, Chairman, Member Secretary, Expert Committees, and Zonal Committee make up RCI’s very effective organisational structure. The chairman is the RCI’s highest authority.
RCI collaborates closely with a number of organizations, including the National Information Center run by the Ministry of Information & Technology, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in New Delhi, and the Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University in Bhopal.
The council also has a National Program Policy in the form of Bridge Courses and Primary Health Centers (PHC). PHC strives to give disabled persons equal opportunity by upholding their legal rights and ensuring that all handicapped individuals take engage in everyday activities in their community just like everyone else.
On the other hand, Bridge Course guarantees that all individuals working for the welfare of the disabled will participate in training programmes provided by the council.
The Rehabilitation Council of India was established in 1986 and became a recognized organization. It was quickly discovered, nevertheless, that a Society was unable to guarantee accurate standardization and the adoption of the standards by other organizations. In 1992, the Rehabilitation Council of India Act was passed by the Parliament. On June 22, 1993, The Rehabilitation Council of India was established as a Statutory Body.
The RCI Act was broadened by a parliamentary amendment in 2000. The Council is saddled with heavy obligations by the Act. Additionally, it states that anybody providing assistance to individuals with disabilities without RCI-recognized credentials risks prosecution. As a result, the Council is also charged with standardising and overseeing professional and personnel development in the fields of rehabilitation and special education.
The Council’s specific responsibility is to create, standardize, and govern training courses and programmes at different levels in the areas of rehabilitation and special education. Additionally, it supports research in the fields of special education and rehabilitation by maintaining the Central Rehabilitation Register for certified professionals and personnel.
One of the Council’s primary duties is to regulate the training programmes for different categories of professionals and staff in order to guarantee the provision of high-quality services to individuals with disabilities. The Council continuously revises and amends the current curricula and adopts new training programmes that take recent advancements into account.
Currently, 81 long- and short-term training courses (60 regular mode and 21 distance mode) on disability have been designed with the assistance of the relevant expert committees and are being used by various universities and institutions.
