What are the documents you need to carry with you during train travel?

What are the documents you need to carry with you during train travels if you are a person with disabilty???

Well, Paper work in India has always been a challenge for the common people ever since .

However, documentation and paper work help people avail different central government and state government benefits and in turn helps the government to keep a record of the people, their background, ethnicity, religion and community in order to design the correct schemes and plans that in return can benefit the people.

We bring you a simple explanation as what documents are to be carried during travel:

It is always important to carry your documents and important paper work while you travel.

It’s is advisable to :

  • Keep Medical Certificate With You.

  • Keep a doctor’s note and medical certificate with you to avail assistance.

  • The medical certificate or doctor’s note will help you breeze through security without much hassle. Reach the station before time to prepare for additional security screenings, and to find your way easily.

  • Scanned copy of Address Proof (Aadhar/Driving License/State Domicile etc)

  • Scanned copy of Identity Proof (Aadhar Card/PAN Card/Driving License etc)

  • Scanned copy of Disability Certificate (Only for those Persons with Disability who have been issued disability Certificate is by the competent Authority)

However, as per the recent developments by the government, the UDID project initiated by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities aims at building a holistic end-to-end integrated system for Issuance of Universal ID & Disability Certificates for Person with Disabilities with their identification and disability details. It includes -

  • Online availability of data of Person with Disabilities across country through a centralized web application.

*Online filing and submission of registration application form for disability certificate/ Universal ID card; Offline applications may also be accepted and subsequently digitized by agencies

  • Quick Assessment process for calculating the percentage of disability by the hospitals/ Medical Board

  • Non-duplication of PwDs data

  • Online renewal and update of information by Person with Disabilities/ on their behalf

  • MIS reporting framework

  • Effective management including interoperability of the benefits / schemes launched by the Government for Person with Disability (PwD)

  • To take care of additional disabilities in future. Number of disabilities at the moment is seven and shall be subject to increase as per the new Act/ notification which can be up to 19 or more.

The UDID card shall bring a host of benefits to the Persons with Disabilities as given below:

  • Persons with disabilities will not need to make multiple copies of documents, maintain, and carry multiple documents as the card will capture all the necessary details which can be decoded with the help of a reader

  • The UDID card will be the single document of identification, verification of the disabled for availing various benefits in future.

  • The UDID Card will also help in stream-lining the tracking of the physical and financial progress of beneficiary at all levels of hierarchy of implementation - from village level, block level, District level, State level and National level.

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