Welcome to Composite Regional Centre, Patna
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice
& Empowerment, Govt. of India has established National Institutes in each major
area of disability, namely (i) National Institute for the Visually Handicapped(NIVH),
Dehradun, (ii) National Institute for the Locomotor Disability(Divyangjan), Kolkata
(iii) Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped (AYJNIHH), Mumbai
((iv) National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH), Secunderabad (v) National
Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD), Chennai
(vi) Pandit Deendayal Upadhayaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped(Pt. DDUIPH),
New Delhi (vii) Swami Vivekanand National Institute of the Rehabilitation Training
and Research(SVNIRTAR), Cuttack (viii) Indian Sign Language Research & Training
Centre (ISLRTC), New Delhi.
These Institutes are apex-level organizations in the field of education, training
vocational guidance, counseling, research, rehabilitation and development of suitable
service modules for the disabled. The Institutes also serve as premier documentation
and information centre in their respective areas of disability. Development and
standardization of aids and appliances and preparation of community awareness materials,
both of the electronic and the print media, for the target audience, the patients,
the community and professionals in the field etc. are also their responsibilities.
The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights & Full
Participation) Act, 1995 emphasises upon both the Central and the State Governments
to take a large number of steps for the disabled, which covers both preventive and
promotional aspects of rehabilitation like education, heath, employment and vocational
training research and manpower development, rehabilitation for persons with disability
etc.
Since, the National and apex institutions deal with specific areas of disability.
Their infrastructure was not adequate to provide services to all states, including
less-developed regions of the country, for want of facilities.Therefore a need was
felt to address the local/regional problems of PWD’s and in order to fulfils the
national objectives fourteen Composite Regional Centers for the Persons with Disabilities
were established which are functioning at Sundernagar (Himachal Pradesh), Srinagar
(Jammu & Kashmir), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Guwahati (Assam), Patna (Bihar), Bhopal
(Madhya Pradesh), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Kozhikode, (Kerala), Devengere (karnataka),
Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), Nagpur (Maharastra), Rajnandan Gaon (Chhattisgarh), Tripura,
Ranchi (Jharkhand).
CRC Patna was established in 27th Feb, 2009 by the Department of Disability
Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India and functioning
under the administrative control of National Institute for the Locomotor Disability(Divyangjan),
Kolkata.
CRC Patna is an apex institute in the region having tripartite functions
of training, research and services to the persons with all types of disabilities.
CRC Patna is progressing towards building capacities to empower persons with
disabilities through long and short term human resource development programmes,
development of service models, documentation and dissemination of information, Community
Based Rehabilitation, Extension and Outreach Programme, fabrication and fitment
of aids & appliances and “reach the un-reached” in the region has been a major focus
of the centre.
VISION
The quality of life of every person with disability is equal to other citizens in
the country: in that live independently to the maximum exiling possible.
MISSION
Through constant professional endeavors, empowering the person with disability to
access the state of the habilitation intervention viz. educational therapeutic vocational,
employment, leisure and social sports and cultural programmers and full participation.
VALUE STATEMENT
CRC Patna values equal opportunity, protection of rights & full participation
of the PWD’s.