<span style="color: #222222;">Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar released the Training Modules of Central Sector Scheme at a function in New Delhi yesterday. The Training Modules have been developed by Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) for different level of target groups including health and allied professionals, education functionaries, grass-root level functionaries, senior and mid-level functionaries.<br />''<br />''In his address, Dr. Kumar informed that the Training Modules will be instrumental to sensitise the government functionaries at different levels and other stakeholders to deal with persons with disabilities effectively. He also informed that through this scheme 12 thousand government functionaries have been sensitised till date.<br />''<br />''The scheme proposes to train about  10 thousand key functionaries every year through short term training programmes. He said, the Department has sanctioned  7 crore 62 lakh rupees to RCI for further release of Grant in Aids  to implementing agencies.<br />''<br />''The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, DEPwD has been in process of implementing this scheme all over the country in the coming months. The Union Minister also appealed to all the stakeholders to work together for this social cause and the inclusion of persons with disabilities.<br />''<br />''In her address, Secretary, DEPwD, Anjali Bhawra said that that the Training Modules will play an important role for up gradation of knowledge of stakeholders for empowerment of persons with disabilities in our country.</span><br />