How to get a Unique Disability ID Card UDID in India

Unique Disability ID Card for Persons with Disabilities is an Identity Card to each person with disabilities. The project is being initiated by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India with a view of creating a National Database for people with disability. 

Below mentioned is information as provided by the Government to register online for UDID.

Person with Disability who is not having a Disability Certificate: 

Click the link below link to apply online, fill online application, attach scanned copy of required documents.

• Click To Register for Disability certificate.
• Upload color passport photo and other requisite documents like Income Proof, Identity Proof and SC/ST/OBC proof as required.
• Submits data to CMO Office/Medical Authority.
• CMO Office/Medical Authority verifies data.
• CMO Office/Medical Authority assigns the concerned specialist(s) for assessment.
• Specialist Doctor assesses disability of PwD and gives opinion on disability.
• Medical Board reviews the case and assign disability percentage. CMO Office prepares Disability Certificate and generates UDID and Disability Certificate.
• UDID datasheet goes for UDID Card printing and Card dispatched to PwD.

Person with Disability already having Disability Certificate ( Whose data have been migrated in UDID Portal) :  

• All People with disability who have been issued Disability Certificate click on below link.
• “Already having Disability Certificate”
• Enter your details by Beneficiary ID/State ID  or Aadhaar Number (if linked).
• A person with disability can search her/his details, fill up application and summit.

List of the States where data of people with disability have been migrated: 

MP, Gujarat, Tripura, Haryana, UP.

Person with Disability already having Disability Certificate (Whose data have not been migrated in UDID Portal):  

• They will continue to fill up application as fresh and select option “Have Disability Certificate?: Yes” in Disability Details Tab . 
• Fill up other details and submit application.

Who can apply for Unique Disability ID Card? 

All Person with Disability/Disabilities

As per the Persons with Disabilities act 1995 only given disabilities type can apply for UDID Card.

List of Disabilities:

1. Blindness: “Blindness” refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions namely:-
   1. Total absence of sight; or
   2. Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or
   3. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse;
2. Cerebral Palsy: “Cerebral Palsy” means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterized by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, peri-natal or infant period of development;
3. Low vision: “Low Vision” means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment of standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of  a task with appropriate assistive device;
4. Loco-motor Disability: “Loco-motor disability” means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or nay form of cerebral palsy;
5. Leprosy-cured: “Leprosy-cured person” means person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from-
   1. 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;
   2. Manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
   3. Extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him from undertaking and gainful occupation, and the expression ‘Leprosy Cured” shall be construed accordingly;
6. Mental Retardation: “Mental retardation” means a conditions of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person which is specially characterized by sub normality of intelligence;
7. Mental Illness: “Mental illness” means any mental disorder other than Mental retardation;
8. Hearing Impairment:“Hearing Impairment” means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies;