| REHABILITATION COUNCIL OF INDIA |
|
|
Rehabilitation
Council
of india
is
a Statutory
Body of
ministry
of
Social
Justice
&
Empowerment,
set up
by an
Act of
Parliament in
1992 and
charged
with the
responsibility
of
planning,
developing,
and
standardizing
the
quality
of
training
for
sixteen
categories
of
Rehabilitataon
professionals
under its
purview
to meet
the
needs of
span of
persons
with
disabilities
This Act
was
futher
amended
in the
year
2001 to
widen
the
reponsibilities
of the
Counicil
to
include: |
-
Standardization
of training courses for professional/personnel's needed for the special education
or rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.
-
Regulation
of
training
policies,
programmers
and
standards
in
the
field
of
Special
Education
and
rehabilitation.
-
Recognition
and
Monitoring
of Institutions/Organizations/Universities offering courses for training
of rehabilitation professionals.
-
Maintenance
of a
Central
Rehabilitation
register
(CRR)
of
all
qualified
persons
in
the
field
of
Special
Education
and
rehabilitation.
|
|
Under
section
13 of
the RCI
Act,
on
person,
other
than the
rehabilitation
professinal/
personnel
who
posses a
recognized
rehabilitation
qualification
is on
the
rehabilitation
Register
(CRR) |
-
Shall
hold
office
as
rehabilitation
professinal
or
any
such
office
(by
wthatever
desigmation
called)
in
Government
or
any
institutional
maintained
by a
local
or
other
authority.
-
Shall
practice
as
rehabilitation
professinal
anywhere
in
india
-
shall
be
entitled
to
sign
or
authenticate
any
certificate
required
by
any
law
to
be
signed
or
authenticated
by a
rehabilitation
professinal.
-
shall
be
entitled
to
sign
or
authenticate
any
certificate
required
by
any
law
to
be
signed
or
authenticated
by a
rehabilitation
professinal.
|
|
the Act
further
states
that
those
who act
in
contravention
of any
provision
of
subsection
(2)
cited
above
shall be
punished
with
imprisonment
for a
term
which
may
extend
to one
year or
which
may
extend
to one
thousand
rupees,
or with
both. |
|
In
imprisonment
its
responsibilities,
over the
last
decade
and
more,
the
rehabilitation
Council
of India
has
piayed a
crucial
role in
offering
a better
quality
of life
for
persons
with
disabilities.
The
Council
has
developed
numerous
need
based
training
programmes
for
special
education
and
rehabilitation
of
persons
with
disabilities.
Further,
RCL
realized
that in
order to
meet the
huge
need for
trained
manpower
in the
area of
special
education
in the
country,
the most
viable
option
was
through
the
distance
mode of
educating
by
offering
distance
education
courses. |
|
Distance
Education
in
itself
is a
growing
field,
as it
offers
the
option
salf at
study at
the
doorstep
of the
student,
along
with the
support
and
guidance
of
trained
faculty
at the
Study
Centres
close to
home. It
allows
the
student
trainees
flexibility
of study
hours
and
enables
them to
continue
to work
and
study at
the same
time.
Moreover
the
system
of
distance
education
hasthe
potential
to
fulfial
the
enormou
responsibility
of
universalization
and
democratization
of
education,
as
it holds
the
promise
checking
the
falling
standaeds
at
reasonable
cost,
making
the
optimum
use of
media
and
technolog
and
providing
education
relevant
to the
needs of
the
country. |
|
The
rehabilitation
Council
of India
visualizing
the
benefits
of
distance
education
in the
area of
disabilit
rehabilitation
and its
potential
for
preparing
rpofessinals
in the
field of
Special
Education
began
collaborate
with
Open
Universities
to
promote
and
implement
Special
Education
training
programme
for the
empowerment
of a
special
taeget
grup of
leplement
with
disabilities.
The
first
State
open
University
to come
forward
and
collaborate
with RCI
for
launching
Special
Education
Programme
through
Distance
Mode was
Madhya
Pradesh
Bhoj
(open)
University
(MPBOU),
Bhipal
in the
year
2000.
This led
to the
conduct
of the
B.Ed
Special
Education
(BEd(SEDE))
Course
with
specialization
in 4
disability
areas
i.e.
HearingImpaiemetnt
(HI),
Visual
Impairment
(VI),
Mental
rehabilitation
(MR) ar
Locomotor
Disability
(LH),
through
approved
Study
Centres
across
the
country.
(Presently,
the
Coures
is being
offired
i n
three
disability
areas
only
viz..
Hearing
Impairment
(HI),
visual
Impairment
(VI) and
Mental
Rehabilitation
(MR) |
|
With the
growth
and
popularity
of the
Distance
Education
option
since
2000 and
with the
emergen
of an
increasing
number
of
career
opportunities
for
trained
special
education
RCI has
over the
la few
years
entered
into
agreements
and
collaborans
with
more
State
Open
Universities
for
offiri
this
B.ED (SEDE)
programme
in
English,
Hindi
and the
regional
languages; |
|
The
Universities
that are
currenty
recognized
by the
Rehabilitation
Council
of India
(RCI)to
cond the
B.ED (SEDE)
course
for the
2008-10
batch
are: |
-
Madhya
Pradesh
Bhoj
Open
University
(MPBOU)
in
English
&
Hindi
medium
-
North
Easterm
Hill
University
(NEHU)
in
English
&
Hindi
medium
-
Tamil
Nadu
Open
University
(TNOU)
in
Tamil
and
English
medium
-
Babasaheb
ambedkar
Open
University
(BAOU)
in
Gujarati
medium
-
Kaenataka
State
Open
University
(KSOU)
in
Kannada
medium
|
|
A
Common
Online
Entrance
Test is
now
being
conducted
for
admission
of B.Ed
(SEDE)
the 2008
batch at
MPBOU,NEHU,NSOUANDBAOU. |
|
|
