Unique Disability ID (UDID) Scheme

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• The Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry asked states to speed up the implementation of the UDID scheme for persons with disabilities (PwD) in the 75 districts across India, which have been selected for their connection with the freedom struggle.

About Unique Disability ID (UDID) scheme 

• It was initiated by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
• It aims at building a holistic end-to-end integrated system for the Issuance of Universal ID & Disability Certificates for persons with Disabilities with their identification and disability details.
• It is being implemented with a view to creating a National Database for PwDs, and to issue a Unique Disability Identity Card to each person with disabilities.
• Objective 
  • To enable the PwDs to obtain the new UDID card / Disability Certificate to avail of schemes and benefits.

Significance

• It will encourage transparency, efficiency and ease of delivering the government benefits to the person with disabilities and also ensure uniformity. 
• It will also help in streamlining the tracking of the physical and financial progress of beneficiaries at all levels of the hierarchy of implementation – from village level, block level, District level, State level and National level.

Source:TH