no, you can't get concession ticket on UDID. Either you have to produce
rail concession certificate or card issued by DRM.
On 9/4/2025 1:19 PM, Sandesh wrote:
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
----- Original Message -----
*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
--
Disclaimer:
1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the
thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way
relates itself to its veracity;
2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based
on the mails sent through this mailing list..
Search for old postings at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the
Google Groups "AccessIndia" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from
it, send an email to [email protected].
To view this discussion visit
https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/000601dc128b%246f7f2570%240189a8c0%40INBOOKX3Slim
<https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/000601dc128b%246f7f2570%240189a8c0%40INBOOKX3Slim?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
--
Disclaimer:
1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the
thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates
itself to its veracity;
2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on
the mails sent through this mailing list..
Search for old postings at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "AccessIndia" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
send an email to [email protected].
To view this discussion visit
https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CACOypx90OpZNSt5vdiV2ioi4LZTEaBODDbGqZjg0M34gymYS2g%40mail.gmail.com
<https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CACOypx90OpZNSt5vdiV2ioi4LZTEaBODDbGqZjg0M34gymYS2g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
--
Disclaimer:
1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking
of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its
veracity;
2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the
mails sent through this mailing list..
Search for old postings at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "AccessIndia" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
an email to [email protected].
To view this discussion visit
https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/006701dc1d70%2480d38240%240189a8c0%40INBOOKX3Slim
<https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/006701dc1d70%2480d38240%240189a8c0%40INBOOKX3Slim?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
--
Disclaimer:
1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the
person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity;
2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent
through this mailing list..
Search for old postings at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To view this discussion visit
https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/847f5ccb-d12d-4b93-9972-d97a820e6373%40gmail.com.
