What is UDID?
(Unique Disability ID)
The UDID project is initiated by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
It is an integrated system for issuance of Universal ID & Disability Certificates for Person with
Disabilities (PwDs)
Key features and benefits –
Online availability of data of Person with Disabilities (PwDs) across country through
a centralized web application
Online filing and submission of registration application form for disability certificate/
UDID card
Non-duplication of PwDs data
Online renewal and update of information by Person with Disabilities or on their
behalf
What is a UDID card?
Unique Disability ID card (UDID card) is a single document of Identification for Persons with
Disabilities. It is the universal ID that is accepted all across the country.
Features of UDID card
Colour coded:
White Yellow Blue
Less than 40% disability 40 % to 79 % 80% and above
Who can apply?
All Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) under the 21 types of disabilities:
1. Acid attack Victim 12. Mental illness
2. Autism Spectrum Disorder 13. Multiple Disabilities including
3. Blindness Deaf-blindness
4. Cerebral Palsy 14. Multiple sclerosis
5. Chronic Neurological Conditions 15. Muscular Dystrophy
6. Haemophilia 16. Parkinson’s disease
7. Hearing Impairment 17. Dwarfism
8. Intellectual Disability 18. Sickle Cell disease
9. Leprosy cured persons 19. Specific Learning Disability
10. Locomotor disability 20. Speech and Language disability
11. Low vision 21. Thalassemia
What are the necessary documents required?
1. Passport sized photo
2. Disability Certificate
3. Aadhar card
How to enrol for UDID?
If you do not have a disability certificate, visit any District hospitals with
the mentioned documents, the Medical Authority will assess the Person
with Disability (PwD) and issue a Disability certificate & UDID card.
For PwDs who already have an old Disability certificate (issued by
competent medical authority)
Self-submit the documents by registering at www.swavlambancard.gov.in/ or
submit the necessary documents at the respective District Welfare Offices.
The different types of disabilities:
1. Locomotor Disability
“Locomotor disability” means 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.
2. Muscular Dystrophy
"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.
3. Leprosy Cured Persons
Definition- "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.
4. Dwarfism
"Dwarfism" means a medical or genetic condition resulting in an adult height of 4 feet
10 inches (147 centimetres) or less.
5. Cerebral Palsy
Definition- "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.
6. Acid Attack Victims
Definition "acid attack victims" means a person disfigured due to violent assaults by
throwing of acid or similar corrosive substance.
7. Low-vision
"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 upto 3/60 or upto 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
degrees.
8. Blindness
"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 than 10 degree
9. 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;
10. Speech and Language Disability
"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.
11. Intellectual Disability
Intellectual disability, a condition characterised by significant limitation both in
intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) and in adaptive
behaviour which covers a range of every day, social and practical skills
12. Specific Learning Disabilities
"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.
13. Autism Spectrum Disorder
"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.
14. Mental Illness
"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.
15. Chronic Neurological Conditions
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;
(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.
16. Multiple Sclerosis
"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.
17. Parkinson’s disease
"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.
18. Haemophilia
"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 wound may result in fatal
bleeding.
19. Thalassemia
Thalassaemia refers to group of blood diseases characterized by decreased or absent
synthesis of globin chains.
Most thalassaemia are inherited as recessive traits. From clinical point of view most
relevant types are α and β thalassaemias. Currently based on their clinical severity and
transfusion requirement, these thalassaemia syndromes can be classified phenotypically
into two main groups; transfusion dependent thalassaemias (TDTs) and Non-
transfusion dependent thalassaemias (NTDTs)
20. Sickle Cell Disease
The clinical syndromes resulting from disorders of haemoglobin synthesis are referred
to as hemoglobinopathies.
They are grouped in three main categories:
(a) Those owing to structural variants of haemoglobin, such as Sickle cell disease
(HbS).
(b) Those owing to the failure to synthesize one or more of the globin chains of
haemoglobin at normal rate, as in the Thalassemias.
(c) Those owing to the failure to complete the normal neonatal switch from fetal
haemoglobin (Hb F) to adult hemoglobin (Hb A). The third category comprises a group
of disorders referred to as hereditary presence of fetal haemoglobin (HPFH)
21. Multiple Disabilities
Multiple Disabilities means a combination of two or more disabilities mentioned.
More information at www.swavlambancard.gov.in/
Steps to apply for UDID card by Person with Disabilities (PwDs)
Do you have disability certificate?
YES NO
Submit the following documents to the
District Hospital or District welfare Visit District Hospital with the following
office or self-submission online at documents and get assessed by the
https://www.swavlambancard.gov.in/ concerned specialist.
List of documents List of documents
1. Disability certificate 1. ID proof
2. ID proof * 2. Address proof
3. Address proof* 3. Passport size Photo
4. Passport size Photo
Aadhar serves as both id and residential proof
Disability certificate and UDID card will be
generated and can be collected from the Disability certificate and UDID card will
hospital. be issued immediately at the hospital.
Soft copies will also be sent through email or
Whatsapp.
Old Process before UDID
. PwD visits hospital, gets assessed by the concerned specialist and
disability certificate is issued.
Take the disability certificate to the District Welfare Office.
ID card is issued by the office using details entered in the disability certificate.
New process under UDID
Person with Disability visits hospital, gets assessed by the concerned
specialist and is issued a Disability certificate and ID card at the hospital
itself.
