SMART CARDS BEING MADE FOR DIFFERENTLY ABLED ON UDID PORTAL
Author(s): City Air NewsTHESE CARDS WOULD BE VALID THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY: ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER (D) Ludhiana, July 25, 2018: Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development) Dr Shena Aggarwal has informed that smart cards are being...
THESE CARDS WOULD BE VALID THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY: ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER (D)
Ludhiana, July 25, 2018: Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development) Dr Shena Aggarwal has informed that smart cards are being made for differently abled persons on the UDID portal and these cards would be valid throughout the country. She said that any differently abled beneficiary (disabled more than 50%), can avail of this facility on his own or can take help of District Social Security Officer/District Programme Officer/primary school/high school/aanganwari worker for getting themselves registered on UDID portal.
During a meeting in this regard, Dr Shena Aggarwal directed the officials of Education Department to register the beneficiaries by using computers of their respective schools. The District Programme Officer has been directed to ask all Child Development & Protection Officers and the Aanganwari Workers to ensure that they should contact the differently abled pensioners in every village and take them to the nearby schools so that they can be registered on UDID portal on priority basis.
District Social Security Officer Mr Harmesh Singh informed that the health department is themselves registering the differently abled beneficiaries to make their UDID smart cards and issuing medical certificates.