why don't big NGOs take this matter to the railway board authorities?
They don't because most of them are busy doing podcast in youtube,
facebook and dharna at jantarmantar!
On 9/4/2025 11:23 AM, RAO KM wrote:
Yes.We also tried in Hyderabad. The circular from the Railway Board
clearly says that UDID is enough to prove the percentage of disability
of visual impairment. But in their system, they have not updated it.
The portal asks for a Railway Concession Certificate with Doctor Name,
Registration number, round seal etc. The railway Officials will go to
the Hospital and verify the correctness of the certificate. I went
personally to the Rail Nilayam to speak to the officials doing this
work and they expressed their inability to accept UDID in place of
Railway Concession Certificate because the system has not been updated
accordingly.
Here the point is when the UDID card is available which is issued
after proper and authentic verification by competent doctors, there
should be no need again for going for a railway certificate.
This needs to be taken up at the highest level with the government
officials and railway officials to correct the system so that the
visually impaired need not go again to get the certificate. UDID
should be enough and applicable wherever there is a need to prove
their disability.
K. Madhusudhan Rao
PRO, All India Confederation of the Blind, Hyderabad/Delhi
On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM Sandesh <[email protected]> wrote:
Namaskar all!
Trying to be as brief as possible.
Applied for Rail Divyangjan card through the portal
divyangjanid.Indianrail.gov.in
<http://divyangjanid.Indianrail.gov.in>.
As it is said on user manual available on the portal, list of
required documents for blind people consists of either railway
concession certificate or UDID card along with disability
certificate and other documents. As I do not have Railway
certificate, I uploaded UDID card along with other required stuff.
Applied on August 14, and got rejection remark on 19th which is
really praiseworthy as they kept pending status only for 4 days.
The reason of rejection provided was Railway concession
certificate is not uploaded, also, passport size photograph and
blindness certificate upload. I lodged the issue with Railways
through twitter and mentioned about the reference available on the
portal stating either Railway concession certificate or UDID card
in case of blind people. What is the need of Railway certificate
then? They checked all the details like user manual etc and agreed
with me. Also got call from DRM office Bhusawal as our Nashik city
comes under that. The person was very polite and asked me to
attach Railway certificate because UDID card does not possess any
doctor name or registration number which is mandatory to get the
card. He again echoed with me that if a blind person attaching
UDID card instructed by the manual itself should not be asked
doctor's name and registration number in first place.
He asked me to withdraw the complaint. After seeing his smile,
politeness and willingness to assist, also, his inability to
process the application due to nonavailability of doctor's name
and registration number, I also do not have any intention of
stretching this matter any further. I perhaps might go to hospital
in next few days as time permits and take the Railway certificate
and upload the same on the portal. I also asked him to see whether
any card is issued to any blind person without railway concession
certificate, only on basis of UDID card. He told me to give some
time to check the same.
After this long story, I just want to ask here whether anybody
successfully got the card on basis of disability certificate and
UDID card only, without railway certificate in picture? I think
some got the card on basis of UDID. If so, how they tackled
mandatory doctor name and registration number fields? in my case,
I wrote doctor name as medical signatory as is on UDID card and
doctor registration number
as first few alphanumeric letters as on UDID card again.
Thanks and regards
Vande Mataram
Sandesh
9270056753
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