RCI Act, 1992

Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) Act, 1992

This act came into being to regulate the training of rehabilitation professionals and to maintain a Central Rehabilitation Register to certify rehabilitation professionals. Thus by this act, the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) has become the apex body to further professional development of those in the field of disability rehabilitation.

According to this act, the term "rehabilitation professionals" refers to:

Audiologists and speech therapists
Clinical psychologists
Hearing aid and ear mould technicians
Special educators
Vocational counselors, employment officers and placement officers working with persons with disability
Multi-purpose rehabilitation therapists, technicians or
Other categories of professionals that the Central government may include in consultation with the Council

The main aims of the Rehabilitation Council of India are:

To regulate training policies and programs in the field of disability rehabilitation.
To standardize training courses for professionals working with people with disabilities.
To prescribe minimum standards of education and training of various categories of professionals working with people with disabilities.
To recognize institutions/universities running degree/diploma/certificate courses in the field of disability rehabilitation.
To recognize foreign degree/diploma/certificates awarded by universities/institutions on a reciprocal basis.
To maintain a Central Rehabilitation Register of Institutions possessing the recognized rehabilitation qualification.

Acts:

Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992, Rehabilitation Council of India
Rehabilitation Council of India (Amendment) Act, 2000, Rehabilitation Council of India

Source:

The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) is the apex government body, set up under an Act of Parliament, to regulate training programmes and courses targeted at disabled, disadvantaged, and special education requirement communities. It is the only statutory council in India that is required to maintain the Central Rehabilitation Register which mainly documents details of all qualified professionals who operate and deliver training and educational programmes for the targeted communities.

In the year 2000, the Rehabilitation Council of India (Amendment) Act, 2000, was introduced and notified consequently by the government of India. The amendment brought definitions and discussions provided within the earlier Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992, under the ambit of a larger act, namely, Persons with Disability (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (PwD Act 1995).

Central Rehabilitation Register (CRR)

RCI registers professionals for providing rehabilitations services.

The process of registration in Central Rehabilitation Register (CRR) is provided through a portal for better delivery of services.

e-Registration Portal

You can check your application status, CRE points, and also download your certificate as and when required with no extra charges. For the new portal, all concerned (for both who are applying for the first time and those already having CRR number) will have to create their Login ID and Password. Guidelines and FAQ are also provided:

You can also find the registered professionals and norms for CRE points:

Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI)

The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) was set up as a registered society in 1986. On September,1992 the RCI Act was enacted by Parliament and it became a Statutory Body on 22 June 1993.The Act was amended by Parliament in 2000 to make it more broad based.

The mandate given to RCI is to regulate and monitor services given to persons with disability, to standardize syllabi and to maintain a Central Rehabilitation Register of all qualified professionals and personnel working in the field of Rehabilitation and Special Education.

The Act also prescribes punitive action against unqualified persons delivering services to persons with disability.

Objectives

To regulate the training policies and programmes in the field of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities
To bring about standardization of training courses for professionals dealing with persons with disabilities
To prescribe minimum standards of education and training of various categories of professionals/ personnel dealing with people with disabilities
To regulate these standards in all training institutions uniformly throughout the country
To recognize institutions/ organizations/ universities running master's degree/ bachelor's degree/ P.G.Diploma/ Diploma/ Certificate courses in the field of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities
To recognize degree/diploma/certificate awarded by foreign universities/ institutions on 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

Training Courses

Regular Mode

RCI offers several Certificate, Diploma (D.Ed.), Graduation (B.Ed. Special Education), and Masters (M.Ed. Special Education) Courses in regular mode in the following fields:

Visual Impairment
Hearing Impairment
Intellectual Disability
Learning Disability
Speech & Hearing
Locomotor and Cerebral Palsy
Autism Spectrum and Disorder
Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation Engineering/Technology
- Prosthetics & Orthotics
- Community Based Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Rehabilitation Therapy
- Vocation Counselling and Rehabilitation Social Work/Administration
- Care Givers
- Inclusive Education

Distance Mode

The following State Open / Central Universities and training courses are through Open & Distance Learning Mode in Special Education in collaboration with RCI:

Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Netaji Subhash Open University, Kolkata, West Bengal
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya
Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, Karnataka
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, Telangana
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Nashik, Maharashtra
Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, Rajasthan
Uttarakhand Open University, Haldwani (Nainital), Uttarakhand
Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

The courses are offered in the following schedules:

Semester System: From July to December and January to June
Annual System: From July to June

For further details please contact the RCI approved Institutions offering Graduate and above level programmes