About Department

Composite Regional Centre for Skill Development, Rehabilitation & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (CRC), Patna was established in the year 2009 by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India. It is functioning under the administrative control of National Institute for the Locomotor Disabilities (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. Through constant professional endeavors, empowering the persons with disability to access the state of the rehabilitation intervention viz. educational therapeutic vocational, employment, leisure and social sports and cultural  programmers and full participation.