Now differently abled and their parents to get sophisticated assistance..!!

The fifth centre of the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development Regional Centre, well-equipped with ultra-modern facilities to assist differently-abled children was inaugurated by Maneka Gandhi at Mohali today. “NIPCCD is a state-of-the-art premier institution committed to promote voluntary action research, training & documentation in the domain of women & child development”, tweeted the ministry.

National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, popularly known as NIPCCD, is a premier organisation devoted to promotion of voluntary action research, training and documentation in the overall domain of women and child development. Established in New Delhi in the year 1966 under Societies Registration Act of 1860, it functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Women and Child Development. In order to cater to the region-specific requirements of the country, the Institute, over a period of time, has established four Regional Centres at Guwahati (1978), Bangalore (1980), Lucknow (1982) and Indore (2001).

The Institute functions as an apex institution for training functionaries of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme. As a nodal resource agency,it has also been entrusted with the responsibility of training and capacity building of functionaries at the national and regional level, under the new scheme of Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS). It has also been designated, by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the nodal institution for imparting training on two important issues of Child Rights and Prevention of trafficking of women children for SAARC countries.

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