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    Central Institute on Mental Retardation aims to work for the total development of the mentally challenged persons. It does so by acquiring and disseminating information on the mentally challenged. It undertakes researches to chalk out methods of normalization and to promote awareness of this problem. Also the needs of the afflicted is to be communicated among parents, families and the general public. It also aims to help, organize and provide the mentally challenged persons rehabilitation oriented pre-school and school education, vocation based training and employment opportunities.


    In India, CIMR aims to liaise with both State and Central Governments; with local and municipal bodies; quasi-government corporations and organizations in order to secure the undeniable right of the mentally challenged for quality of treatment, and amendment of obstructive laws or codification of new legislation, wherever necessary. This is done to ensure total protection to them as full-fledged citizens.

    The founder-director, Fr. Thomas Felix CMI, shares his vision. His revolutionary concept of Three Cs in action is to be seen in order to be understood. The children who perform the historical mythical Indian ballet, The Ramayanam; the teens and adults who represented India in the first ever Olympics for the Handicapped in Madrid, Spain; the children who walked down Rajpath, in New Delhi, on the occasion of India's Republic Day Celebrations are not only the visible signs of his vision but are in themselves the hope for the mentally challenged.

    CIMR now envisions a new hope for the new millennium with respect to the mentally challenged persons. CIMR wishes to share its wisdom and techniques with the whole world so that such mentally challenged persons may lead normal human lives and offer their creativity to civilization. Further these specialized techniques and tools can also be taken up to understand and improvise the learning/absorbing powers of any human child, not just the mentally challenged.

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