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FIRST COLLEGE OF REHABILITATION SCIENCES IN THE COUNTRY TO BE SET UP

New Delhi: June 20th 2001

The first ever College of Rehabilitation Sciences is to be set up in the country in collaboration with Rehabilitation Council of India and Pittsburgh University USA. Smt. Maneka Gandhi Union Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment has ordered for setting up the College of Rehabilitation Sciences with an objective to integrating rehabilitation sciences with allied disciplines by providing comprehensive training programmes for the human resource development in the field of rehabilitation of disabled. The Minister has written to the Chief Minister of Haryana to allot a suitable piece of land in one of the areas adjoining Delhi.

The proposed College of Rehabilitation Sciences shall offer certificate diploma and post graduate programme in rehabilitation sciences and technology and track programmes on various aspects of rehabilitation research. The College will be a center of excellence fulfilling the objectives of training high level professionals in subjects such as special education, speech therapy and audiology, rehabilitation engineering, prosthetics and orthotics, communication disorder etc. of promoting research in special education and rehabilitation and establishing linkages with other universities in India and abroad.

The proposed college aims at developing one thousand high quality professionals in the field of rehabilitation over a period of five years. In collaboration with Pittsburgh University which would involve transfer of technology and training of professionals this College would move towards developing into a full-fledged university and as a centre of excellence in the field.
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