Over 26,000 physically challenged registered after special campaign in Jharkhand 

Ranchi, April 1: The vision of Chief Minister Hemant Soren to cover all Divyangjans (disabled) with pension is turning into reality.

The result of the special campaign organized in the entire state on the instructions of the Chief Minister is that so far 26794 Divyangjans have been identified and registered on the UDID portal after investigation by medical board.

Out of this, 5069 are of Ranchi, 5117 are from Pakur and 2635 of Hazaribagh were benefitted in the camp under special campaign.

During this special campaign, till date, maximum number of Divyangjans were tested in 5140 Pakur for providing certificates to Divyangjans.

After this, 4563 Divyangjans were investigated in Gumla and 3012 in Hazaribagh. Also, the number of verification of pending applications on the UDID portal through the camp was 13,807 and the number of applications collected through offline mode was 95,278 from persons with disability having certificate of disability at the district level under the departmental road guide.

Apke Adhikar campaign organised by the State Government also helped the disabled as 18699 Divyang Pension applications were executed through Aapki Sarkar Aapke Dwar program. Maximum 2295 applications were executed in Palamu, 2192 in Deoghar and 1486 in Giridih. After the implementation of Sarvajan (Universal) Pension Scheme, 24,162 Divyang Pension has been approved under Swami Vivekananda Disabled Self-Promotion Scheme.

A special drive was started by districts in mid-March for identifying people with disabilities, following an order by the state government’s to trace and prepare unique disability IDs for all such groups by March 31 in order to link them with different welfare schemes.

Officials at the state social welfare department said that currently, around five lakh people with disabilities reside in Jharkhand but around 2.74 lakh did not have a disability certificate. “The drive is aimed at mapping all such persons with disabilities,” an official said. The drive could not be conducted earlier owing to the pandemic, the official added.

Medical board were constituted for mandatory health check-up of the beneficiaries before issuing them a disability certificate.

“Once the medical board under the civil surgeon’s office certifies them, we have to enrol them on the national database(https://www.swavlambancard.gov.in/) for issuance of digital certificates and creation of their unique disability ID.”

Last year, the Centre mandated all states to digitise disability certificates for creating their unique IDs for the national database under the Swavlamban project.