Question: Consider the following statements regarding governments recently launched six- month CBID Program on rehabilitation of Divyangjan?
i) The program aims to create a pool of grass-root rehabilitation workers at community level .
ii) These workers will be called ‘Divyang Mitra’.
iii) The Rehabilitation Council of India and University of Melbourne have jointly developed the curriculum of the program to train the above mentioned workers.
Which of the above are true:
a) i,ii
b) ii,iii
c) i, ii,iii
d) none
Ans: c
Context
- Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment Dr Thaawarchand Gehlot virtually launched a 6- month Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) Program on rehabilitation of Divyangjan recently.
Facts
- Person with disabilities (PwDs) are an important human resource and if appropriate facilities/opportunities are given, they can excel in any field be it education, sports performing/fine arts.
- To achieve this a course has been developed under the CBID with the collaboration of The Rehabilitation Council of India and University of Melbourne to train man power who will help in the rehabilitation of PwDs.
- The National Board of Examination in Rehabilitation under the Rehabilitation Council of India will conduct examinations and award certificates to pass-out candidates.
- 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.
- The program has been designed to provide competency based knowledge and skills among these workers to enhance their ability for successfully discharging their duties.
- These workers will be called ‘Divyang Mitra’ i.e. friends of persons with disabilities.
- The Rehabilitation Council of India intends to roll out the course initially on a pilot basis for two batches in 7 National Institutes of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and 7-9 voluntary organisations having experience in Community Based Rehabilitation programme.
- Initially the programme will be available in English, Hindi and 7 regional languages, namely, Gujarati, Marathi, Odiya, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Garo.
By kameshwar shukla