Aadhaar helps trace parents of three mentally challenged kids

Aadhaar will help three mentally challenged boys be reunited with their respective parents Monu, Omprakash and Neelakanta, all aged between 12 and 18 years, stayed at the state-run child care centre on Hosur Road, Bengaluru They got separated from their parents for various reasons and were rescued from railway stations

Three mentally challenged boys who got separated from their families for various reasons will be reunited with their respective parents on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, all thanks to Aadhaar.

Monu, Omprakash and Neelakanta, all aged between 12 and 18 years, stayed at the state-run child care centre on Hosur Road, Bengaluru.

During an Aadhar enrolment drive in March, officials had taken the biometrics of all the boys but were not able to generate unique IDs of the three as they already had registrations.

The boys were rescued from railway stations. One is from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, one from Chittoor in Andhra and the third hails from Jharkhand.

UIDAI officials found out that Monu’s biometric details were identical to that of an Enrolment Number (EID) of a child named Narendra from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. 

Omprakash’s biometrics matched to that of Omprakash Prajapati, son of Jagdish Prajapati of Garhwa in Jharkhand.

Neelakanta, from Chittoor, had been missing from his village in Chittoor since 2014.

A UIDAI official said that the families of the children had been contacted and they will be reunited soon.