The Rehabilitation Council of India has devised training modules to effectively engage with persons with disabilities
Today, Dr Virendra Kumar, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment has released the training modules of the Central Sector Scheme i.e. in-service training and sensitisation of key functionaries of the Central and State Government and local bodies at India International Centre, New Delhi. Anjali Bhawra, (IAS) the secretary of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPWD), Tarika Roy, the joint secretary, Dr Uma Tuli, ex-CCPD and Dr Subodh Kumar, member-secretary of RCI (Rehabilitation Council of India) were also present on the occasion.
Approximately 100 heads of the training institutes, faculty members from Delhi and NCR were present in the conference hall.
The training module has been developed by RCI for different levels of target groups such as health and allied professionals, education functionaries, grassroots level functionaries, senior and mid-level functionaries including introductory modules in English and Hindi in a simple language with pictorial and graphic designs.
During his address, Dr Kumar informed the delegates that the training modules developed by RCI for the six target groups will be instrumental to sensitise the government functionaries at different levels and other stakeholders to deal with persons with disabilities effectively. He also informed that through this scheme, 12000 government functionaries have been sensitised to date.
The DEPWD will be implementing this scheme all over the country in the forthcoming month.