Registration of Mental Health Counsellors

15. Registration of Mental Health Counsellors (1) It shall be mandatory for all Coaching Centres to engage mental health counsellors certified as Clinical Psychologist or Rehabilitation Psychologist, or having any other certification provided by the Rehabilitation Council of India and deemed to be equivalent by the Authority. (2) Each mental health counsellors shall mandatorily register on the designated Web Portal and upon successful registration shall be provided with unique registration number called “CMC-ID”, which may be linked to “Aadhaar”. (3) The person shall ensure that all the mental health counsellors employed or to be employed by him are registered on the web-portal and the CMC-ID allocated to the such mental health counsellors are appropriately tagged with the corresponding CCR-IID of the Coaching Centre. (4) The CMC-ID shall have perpetual validity till the mental health counselor is enumerated in the Central Rehabilitation Register with appropriate certification as may be determined by the State Government or the Authority. (5) The registration of mental health counselors shall be carried out in the manner as may be prescribed by the Rules.