Identify differently-abled for UIC: Centre to State

To ensure transparency, the cards would be linked with Aadhar card and the data would be available online.

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To avoid any delay and leakages, his ministry has adopted direct benefit transfer (DBT) channel to pass on the scholarships. Illustration by C R Sasikumar

The Centre, on Thursday, asked the state governments to identify differently-abled people in their respective areas for distribution of Universal Identity Cards to them to help them avail of benefits under various government schemes.

While addressing a conference of Social Welfare Ministers of states, Union Minister, Thaawar Chand Gehlot said, “All the preparatory work has been done, including the design of the card by the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Very soon these cards will be passed on to the states for distribution. State governments should gear themselves up to identify the persons with disabilities in their respective states, so that within one-and-a-half years all of them (the differently-abled) can have the cards.”

To ensure transparency, the cards would be linked with Aadhar card and the data would be available online. Referring to various scholarship schemes for the disabled by NDA government in 2014-15, Gehlot said that the Centre wanted to make sure that every deserving student availed of its benefit.

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He asked the state governments to launch a campaign from next academic year to identify such students. To avoid any delay and leakages, his ministry has adopted direct benefit transfer (DBT) channel to pass on the scholarships.

Under the “Accessible India Campaign” (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan), Gehlot advised the state governments to approve the building plans only when there are accessibility provisions for people with disabilities as per recently issued guidelines by the National Building Code of India. He asked the state governments to identify public utility buildings, to carry out access audit and make it disabled friendly.

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