SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES

NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE VENTURRES OF REHABILITATION COUNCIL (RCI) AND MADHYA PRADESH BHOJ (OPEN) UNIVERSITY (MPBOU)

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOUNDATION COURSE FOR EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITY ( FC-SEDE PROGRAMME)

DATE:DECEMBER 22, 2006

TIME:FROM 09 A.M. TO 04 P.M.

VENUE: INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

09:00 – 10:00:Registration

10:00 – 11:00:Inauguration By Shri Arjun Singh, Hon’ble Union Cabinet Minister MHRD Govt. of India

11:00 – 11:30 :Tea Break

11:30 – 13:00:Success Stories from State SSA Representatives and Discussion

13:00 – 14:00:Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00:Status Reports of Representative Centres and Discussion

1500 – 16000:Valedictory

Note: Invitees to the FC-SEDE National Conference ,the State SSA Project Directors and the Coordinators of MPBOU-RCI FC-SEDE Study Centres are requested to report for registration at 09.00 am at the Venue. The Conference will be over by 00.04 p/m/ They will meet from their own resources their travel expenses and make their own arrangement of stay at Delhi. Working lunch and tea will be provided in the venue.

G. GURUMADHYA PRADESH BHOJ (OPEN) UNIVERSITY

Professor & Department of Special Education

Senior ConsultantI.T.I. (Gas Rahat) Building, Govindpura, Bhopal-462023

(Tel.No. 0755-2784102, 2601016, Fax No. 0755-2600704

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Ref. DSE/NC-FC06

December 01,2006

Sub:NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOUNDATION COURSE FOR EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITY ( FC-SEDE PROGRAMME)

DATE:DECEMBER 22, 2006

TIME:FROM 09 A.M. TO 04 P.M.

VENUE:INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI

Dear Sir/Madam,

Your institution is playing an important role as a MPBOU-RCI Study Centre for running the Special Education Programme of Foundation Course for Education of Children with Disability through Distance Education mode (FC-SEDE Programme). This is a National Programme and jointly run by Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University (MPBOU) and Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI). The statutory provision of admission of disabled children in normal school under Sarva Shikshya Abhijan of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has added a new emphasis to this Programme.. As no elementary school in the country can deny admission of a child with any disability it has become obligatory to train at least one teacher from every elementary school in the country in the FC-SEDE programme.. It is a massive programme of training around 6,00,000 teachers within 10 years.

In this context, a National Conference on Foundation Course for Education of Children with Disability within the framework of the Sarva Shikshya Abhijan (SSA 2010) is being convened on December 22, 2006 in the Auditorium of India International Centre in New Delhi involving top level representatives of implementing agencies at National and State levels such as RCI, MPBOU, State SSA Authorities and MPBOU-RCI FC-SEDE Study Centres. to discuss about present status, success stories, remedial measures to be taken to realize the set objectives.. The conference will be inaugurated by Sri Arjun Singhji, Hon'ble Union Cabinet Minister, MHRD, Government of India.

You are invited to participate in this conference. Please bring with you the Status Report of FC-SEDE Programme in the enclosed Format and submit along with your suggestions and comments for the promotion of the quality and standard of the programme. You will have to report your self in the venue of the conference at 09-00 a.m. on 22-12-2006. The conference will be over5 by 04,00 p.m. Working Lunch and tea will be provided to you in the venue. You are to meet from your own resources your travel expenses and make your own arrangement of stay at Delhi. .

Please confirm your participation along with a copy of the Status Report.

Anticipating your kind participation and thanking you for your commitment to the cause. and with regards,

Yours sincerely,

(G. Guru))

To

The Co-ordinator, MPBOU-RCI FC-SEDE Stidy Centre No.

CC:

1Dr. J.P. Singh, Member Secretary, RCI, RCI BHAWAN, B-22, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110016

MPBOU-RCI FC-SEDE PROGRAMME 2003-2006

STATUS REPORT FROM STUDY CENTRE