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Punjab ranked 7th for generating unique disability IDS for PwDs : Aruna Chaudhary

Chandigarh, Feb 25 (UNI) Punjab Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister Aruna Chaudhary on Thursday affirmed that the department has attained 7th rank in the country for generating online Unique Disability Identification (UDID) cards for the Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) as per the UDID Card Status report.
In a statement here, Ms Chaudhary said a total 1,89,323 UDID cards have been issued to the PwDs so far, against the target of 3,58,206 given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. She said the department has received 3,27,127 applications on UDID portal, out of which 52.85 per cent (1,89,323) UDID cards have been issued to the persons with disabilities after scrutinizing and verification of the documents, with which the state has achieved 'Surging Ahead State' performance level in this project.
She said the department has so far dispatched 1,48,277 UDID cards to the eligible beneficiaries, which becomes 84.27 per cent of the total dispatched cards.
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