Unique Disability ID

"Unique ID for Persons with Disabilities” project is an initiative of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India. It aims at building a holistic end-to-end integrated system for Issuance of Universal ID & Disability Certificates for Person with Disabilities with their identification and disability details.

The UDID card has a total of 18 digits/characters. The first 2 characters represent State Code, next 2 digits for district code, next 1 digit for CMO code, next 2 digits for disability type, next 4 digits for year of birth of PwD, following 6 digits for running number and the last digit for check sum which is involved for security reasons.

About UDID

The UDID project is being implemented with a view of creating a National Database for PwDs, and to issue a Unique Disability Identity Card (UDID) to each person with disabilities.

It includes -

• Online availability of data of Person with Disabilities across country 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
• MIS reporting framework
• Effective management including interoperability of the benefits / schemes launched by the Government for PwD
• To take care of additional disabilities in future. Number of disabilities at the moment isseven and shall be subject to increase as per the new Act/ notification which can be up to 19 or more.

As per RPWD Act, 2016, UDID card can be issued by home district hospital as well as the hospital where the PWD is taking medical treatment.

Benefits of UDID

The UDID card shall bring a host of benefits to the Persons with Disabilities as given below:

1. Persons with disabilities will not need to make multiple copies of documents, maintain, and carry multiple documents as the card will capture all the necessary details which can be decoded with the help of a reader
2. The UDID card will be the single document of identification, verification of the disabled for availing various benefits in future
3. 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. Department has notified mandatory requirement of UDID card for availing benefits under the schemes/programmes and services w.e.f. 01.04.2024.

When disability is less than 40 percent, the use of UDID card is as follows

As per notification issued by DEPwD on 16th December, 2022-

• All  our National Institutes (NIs)  and  CRCs,  Registration/Diagnostic  Treatment  Fee  may  be waived off for UDID card holders, as well as for those who have disability certificate and have got enrolled on UDID portal, irrespective of percentage (%) of disability, w.e.f. 1st January, 2023.
• Full course fee may be waived off for those students of various courses at our NIs and CRCs, who are UDID card holders, as well as for those who have disability certificate and have got enrolled on UDID portal, irrespective of percentage (%) of disability. This should be done for 2022-23 batch students onwards (including those who are doing two year or more courses and are in their 2nd/3rd/4th year.

Types of UDID Card

Three types of coloured based UDID Cards are issued based on the severity of the disability-

• White Card: When the disability percentage of a PwD is below 40%
• Yellow Card: When the disability percentage of a PwD is above 40% but on or below 80%
• Blue Card: When the disability percentage of a PwD is above 80%

Application process

Who can apply?

Any citizen of India with full/partial disability can apply for UDID card.

List of Disabilities:

• Physical disability 
  • 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), including
    • "leprosy cured person" means a person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from
      • 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;
      • manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
      • 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;
    • "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;
    • "dwarfism" means a medical or genetic condition resulting in an adult height of 4 feet 10 inches (147 centimetres) or less;
    • "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;
    • "acid attack victims" means a person disfigured due to violent assaults by throwing of acid or similar corrosive substance.
• Visual impairment
  • "blindness" means a condition where a person has any of the following conditions, after best correction
    • total absence of sight; or
    • visual acuity less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible correction; or
    • limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 10 degree.
  • "low-vision" means a condition where a person has any of the following conditions, namely
    • visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 upto 3/60 or upto 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections;
    • limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 40 degree up to 10 degree.
• Hearing impairment
  • "deaf" means persons having 70 DB hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears;
  • "hard of hearing" means person having 60 DB to 70 DB hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears;
• "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.
• 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
  • "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;
    • "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 unusal or stereotypical rituals or behaviours.
  • 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 conditon of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person, specially characterised by subnormality of intelligence.
  • Disability caused due to
    • chronic neurological conditions, such as
    • "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;
  • "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.
• Blood disorder
  • "haemophilia" 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;
  • "thalassemia" means a group of inherited disorders characterised by reduced or absent amounts of haemoglobin.
  • "sickle cell disease" means a hemolytic disorder characterised by chronic anemia, painful events, and various complications due to associated tissued and organ damage; "hemolytic" refers to the destruction of the cell membrane of red blood cells resulting in the release of hemoglobin.
  • 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.
• Any other category as may be notified by the Central Government

How to apply?

For Fresh Cases:

• Click Apply online, fill online application, attach scanned copy of required documents.

Four types of details are required:

1. Personal Details including Address
2. Disability Details
3. Employment Details
4. Identity Details

To access the application form, click here.

Documents required with online application:

• Scanned copy of recent color photo. (Only jpeg, jpg and png image with size 5 KB to 100 KB allowed and Photo image Width and Height less than 800px allowed)
• Scanned image of signature (Optional) - (Only jpeg, jpg and png image with size 3 KB to 30 KB allowed)
• Aadhaar (Mandatory as per notification dtd August 8 2023)
• Scanned copy of Identity Proof 
• Scanned copy of Address Proof (Aadhar/Driving License/State Domicile etc)
• Scanned copy of Disability Certificate (Only for those Persons with Disability who have been issued Disability Certificate by the competent Authority)
• For children
  • if the beneficiary was enrolled after the age of five years (with biometrics collection), his Aadhaar Enrolment Identification slip, or of bio-metric update identification slip, or; a copy of the request made for Aadhaar enrolment by the beneficiary; and
  • any of the following documents of the beneficiaries as proof of relationship with the parent or legal guardian as per the Scheme, namely:
    • Birth Certificate; or Record of birth issued by the appropriate authority; or (School identity card, duly signed by the Principal of the school, containing parents names; and
    • Ration Card; or
    • Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) Card; or Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Card; or Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) Card; or
    • Pension Card; or
    • Army Canteen Card; or
    • any Government Family Entitlement Card; or
    • any other document as specified by the Department:

Track status of application

To track the application status, click here.

Download your e-Disability Card & e-UDID Card

To download e-Disability Card and e-UDID Card, click here. You need to login to access the facility.  The UDID cards have been linked to Digilocker in October 2020.

What is the validity of UDID Card?

The UDID card has two types of validity- Permanent UDID card and Temporary UDID Card.

• Permanent UDID: The competent medical authority issues Permanent UDID Card considering there is no progress or regress in the disability of a person
• Temporary UDID : The competent medical authority issues Temporary UDID Card considering there is a progress or a regress in the disability of a person

Disability Certificate & UDID Card Renewal

To renew disability certification and UDID Card, click here.

Apply for Lost UDID Card

To apply for Lost UDID Card, click here.

What if disability/PwD has changed / user migrated to another State

The Department has released a Standard Operating procedure to handle the cases where type or percentage of disability or both of PwD has changed; or where PwD who has already been issued UDID card/disability certificate migerates permanently to another State/UT.

The SoP for above two cases would be as under:

• Visit the UDID portal 
• The PwD need to Login on their dashboard using PwD login link and fill the necessary details like - UDID Number/Enrolment Number, Date of Birth, captcha and click on the login button.
• After logging into their dashboard, the PwD will raise request to surrender his/her previous card. The request for surrender of UDID card would reach to the concerned medical authority who after verification will accpet the request of PwD and take the custody of the previous card, if it is available with PwD or as the case may be.
• The PwD will apply for the fresh card on UDID Portal and the request for the same will reach to the concerned medical authority.
• Thereafter, the CMO or concerned medical authority will generate the UDID card as provided on the portal.

Source : Unique Disability ID portal

Related resources

• Find Nearest Medical Authority for Disability assessment
• New Notified Guidelines dated 14th March 2024 for Purpose of Assessing the Extent of Specified Disabilities.