Project to issue Unique Disability Identity Cards in limbo
The Hindu
Differently abled persons unable to obtain benefits due to absence of document
It was not a pleasant experience for K.N. Anand, a differently abled person with partial blindness, when he approached the authorities for his Unique Disability Identity Card.
The delay by the health department in verifying and issuing the cards to 18,000 differently abled applicants in Kannur for the past three years cost him an opportunity to apply for the Ph.D. course this year at Annamalai University, where they demanded the Unique Disability Identity Card after they found the permanent disability card issued by the health department was written in Malayalam.
It was in 2019 that he had applied for the card. Initially, the delay came from the Social Security Mission, which waited for collecting all the applications from the differently abled people, said Mr. Anand, who is also the vice president of the Differently Abled Employees’ Association and a teacher at the Narath AUP school.