The document discusses India's Universal Disability Identity Card (UDID) program. The UDID card aims to provide a single identification document for persons with disabilities to help them easily access government benefits. It will standardize disability certification and capture all necessary details for verification and future benefit access. The UDID program implementation involves an online registration system and centralized database to issue cards at the national, state, district, block and village levels.

2. Universal Disability Identity Card
Introduction: This is the single document to verify and identify
the special need child and person. They easily get all the
government benefits without any interfere the mediators. Its
implemented and project initiated by Department of
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Ministry of
Disability Affairs govt. of India).
As per the 2011 census, 21.9 millions citizens of India suffering
from one or other type of disability. This is the similar to 2.1% of
the population. Among the total disabled in India, 12.6 millions
are males and 9.3 millions are females.
So that ministry of affairs have think The project will be
implemented from village level, block level, District level , State
level and National level.

3. Aims of UDID Card
 Online details are there of Person with Disabilities across the
nation through a centralized web application.
 Online filing and submission of registration application form
for disability certificate/ Universal ID card; Offline applications
may also be accepted and subsequently digitized by agencies.
 Quick Assessment process for calculating the percentage of
disability by the hospitals/ Medical Board.
 Non-duplication of PwDs data.
 Online renewal and update of information by Person with
Disabilities/ on their behalf.

4. Objectives of UDID Card
The main objectives of UDID card are:
 Persons with disabilities will not need to carry multiple copies
of documents and maintained the documents.
 The UDID card will also capture all the necessary details which
can be decoded with the help of a reader.
 The UDID card will be the single document of identification,
verification of the disabled for availing various benefits in the
future.
 The UDID Card will also help in stream-lining the tracking of
the physical and financial progress of beneficiary at all levels of
hierarchy of implementation – from village level, block level,
District level , State level and National level.

5. Difference Between Impairment
Disability Handicap
Impairment: Any loss or abnormality of psychological,
physiological or anatomical structure or function at the organ
level.
Disability: Any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity
in the manner considered normal for a human being.
Handicap: A disadvantage resulting from impairment or a
disability that limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is
normal depending on age, sex and sociocultural factors.

6. Who Will Be the Persons with
Disabilities
As per the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 - A person
with disability can be defined as one with one or more of
disabilities falling under any of the below mentioned categories :
Under the Physical disability comes following disabilities:
A. Locomotor disability (a person's inability to execute
distinctive activities associated with movement of self and
objects resulting from affliction of musculoskeletal or nervous
system or both)

7. a) “Leprosy Cured Person" means a person who has been
cured of leprosy but is suffering from—
(i) loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation
and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest
deformity;
(ii) manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility
in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal
economic activity;
(iii) extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which
prevents him/her from undertaking any gainful occupation, and
the expression "leprosy cured" shall construed accordingly.

8. (b) “Cerebral Palsy" means a Group of non-progressive
neurological condition affecting body movements and muscle
coordination, caused by damage to one or more specific areas of
the brain, usually occurring before, during or shortly after birth.

9. (c) “Dwarfism" means a medical or genetic condition resulting in
an adult height of 4 feet 10 inches (147 centimeters) or less.

10. (d) “Muscular Dystrophy" means a group of hereditary genetic
muscle disease that weakens the muscles that move the human
body and persons with multiple dystrophy have incorrect and
missing information in their genes, which prevents them from
making the proteins they need for healthy muscles. It is
characterised by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects
in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue.

11. (e) “Acid Attack Victims" means a person disfigured due to
violent assaults by throwing of acid or similar corrosive
substance.

12.  B. Visual impairment— Under this impairment following
disabilities are there:
(a) “Blindness" means a condition where a person has any of the
following conditions, after best correction—
(i) total absence of sight; or
(ii) visual acuity less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in
the better eye with best possible correction; or
(iii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less
than10 degree.

13. (b) “Low-Vision" means a condition where a person has any of
the following conditions, namely:—
(i) visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 up to 3/60
or up to 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible
corrections; or (ii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an
angle of less than 40 degree up to 10 degree.

14.  C. Hearing impairment—
(a) “Deaf" means persons having 70 DB hearing loss in speech
frequencies in both ears;
(b) “Hard of Hearing" means person having 60 DB to 70 DB
hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears.

15. D. “Speech and Language Disability" means a permanent
disability arising out of conditions such as laryngectomy or
aphasia affecting one or more components of speech and
language due to organic or neurological causes.

16. 2. Intellectual Disability, a condition characterised by significant
limitation both in intellectual functioning (rasoning, learning,
problem solving) and in adaptive behaviour which covers a range
of every day, social and practical skills, including— SLD and ASD

17. (a) “Specific Learning Disabilities" means a heterogeneous
group of conditions wherein there is a deficit in processing
language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself as a
difficulty to comprehend, speak, read, write, spell, or to do
mathematical calculations and includes such conditions as
perceptual disabilities, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia,
dyspraxia and developmental aphasia.

18. (b) “Autism Spectrum Disorder" means a neuro-developmental
condition typically appearing in the first three years of life that
significantly affects a person's ability to communicate,
understand relationships and relate to others, and is frequently
associated with unusual or stereotypical rituals or behaviours.

19. 3. Mental Behaviour,— "mental illness" means a substantial
disorder of thinking, mood, perception, orientation or memory
that grossly impairs judgment, behaviour, capacity to recognise
reality or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, but does
not include retardation which is a condition of arrested or
incomplete development of mind of a person, specially
characterised by subnormality of intelligence.

20. 4. Disability caused due to—
(a) Chronic Neurological Conditions, such as—
(i) “Multiple Sclerosis" means an inflammatory, nervous system
disease in which the myelin sheaths around the axons of nerve
cells of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to
demyelination and affecting the ability of nerve cells in the brain
and spinal cord to communicate with each other.

21. (ii) “Parkinson's Disease" means a progressive disease of the
nervous system marked by tremor, muscular rigidity, and slow,
imprecise movement, chiefly affecting middle-aged and elderly
people associated with degeneration of the basal ganglia of the
brain and a deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

22. (b) Blood disorder—
(i) “Heamophilia" means an inheritable disease, usually affecting
only male but transmitted by women to their male children,
characterised by loss or impairment of the normal clotting ability
of blood so that a minor would may result in fatal bleeding.

23. (ii) “Thalassemia" means a group of inherited disorders
characterised by reduced or absent amounts of hemoglobin.

24. (iii) “Sickle Cell Disease" means a hemolytic disorder
characterised by chronic anemia, painful events, and various
complications due to associated tissue and organ damage;
"hemolytic" refers to the destruction of the cell membrane of
red blood cells resulting in the release of hemoglobin.

25. 5. Multiple Disabilities (more than one of the above specified
disabilities) including deaf blindness which means a condition in
which a person may have combination of hearing and visual
impairments causing severe communication, developmental,
and educational problems.

26. What are the Documents Required?
 Scanned copy of the recent colour photo.
 Scanned image of signature (Optional)
 Scanned copy of Address Proof (Aadhar/Driving License/State
Domicile etc)
 Scanned copy of Identity Proof (Aadhar Card/PAN Card/Driving
License etc)
 Scanned copy of Disability Certificate (Only for those Persons
with Disability who have been issued disability Certificate is by
the competent Authority)

27. How to Apply
Step 1: Person with Disability, parents or relatives will click on
register link to register with UDID Web Portal.
Step 2: Using credentials PwD logs in to system and click “Apply
online for Disability Certificate.
Step 3: Upload color passport size photo and other required
documents like Income Proof, Identity Proof and SC/ST/OBC proof.
Step 4: Submit the data to CMO Office/Medical Authority.
Step 5: CMO Office/Medical Authority verifies data.
Step 6: CMO Office/Medical Authority assigns the concerned
specialist(s) for assessment.

28. Step 7: Specialist Doctor will assesses the disability of PwD and
will give opinion on disability.
Step 8: Medical Board reviews the case and assign disability
percentage. Then after CMO Office prepares Disability Certificate
and generates UDID and Disability Certificate.
Step 9: UDID datasheet goes for UDID Card printing and Card
dispatched to PwD home address.

29. References
https://censusindia.gov.in/Census_And_You/disabled_p
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http://www.swavlambancard.gov.in/
http://www.swavlambancard.gov.in/files/PWD-form-
full.pdf
https://www.indiatoday.in/information/story/how-to-
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2019-11-13
http://www.tezu.ernet.in/PwD/RPWD-ACT-2016.pdf
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