Absolutely. And I have heard that concessional tickets are
allowed (both online and offline) on UDID basis.
But here, the case is if railways circular speaks that UDID card
is sufficient for issuance of online Railway concession
certificate, then the anomaly of railways not accepting UDID card
should be dealt with and rectified.
All other things like whether doctor name and registration number
should be there on UDID and/or disability certificate is totally
different matter, it may be significant, but that could be
discussed in separate thread.
Regards
Vande Mataram
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*From:* RAO KM <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Thursday, September 4, 2025 11:23 AM
*Subject:* Re: [AI] Regarding experience of online
application for Railway card
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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