Unique Disability ID Scheme

News: Recently, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has asked states to speed up implementation of  the Unique Disability ID (UDID) scheme for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) in the 75 districts.

About:
• The scheme is being implemented with a view of creating a National Database for PwDs, and to issue a  Unique Disability Identity Card to each person with disabilities. 
• The objective is to help PwDs obtain the UDID card to avail schemes and benefits provided by government  through its different departments. 

 Importance:
• The scheme will encourage transparency, efficiency and ease of delivering the government benefits to  persons with disabilities. 
• The project helps in stream-lining the tracking of physical and financial progress of beneficiaries at all  levels of hierarchy of implementation – from village level, block  , District level, State level and National  level.