One can well imagine the meaning of tears of joy rolling down the cheeks of a mother having found her son after a five-year-long agonising wait. She was overwhelmed as she hugged the 12-year-old boy trying to come back to terms with the quirk of fate. He was lost when he was just seven.
Bihar’s child welfare committee members were witnesses to the emotionally charged scene after they went there to unite the mother together with her son. the kid couldn’t even tell his address or any nearby place because of the tender age when he got separated.
It was made possible using the Aadhaar Card. As a part of the campaign, the state child protection committee, under the welfare directorate of the Bihar government, launched a campaign to induce the Aadhaar Card made for all the inmates of homes. This detected those that already had Aadhaar enrolment in their names.
Uniting lost children with their members of the family may be a tough task, but so far, Bihar’s financial aid department has been ready to do this not with one or two of them, but 64 children, including seven girls, within the last one year, due to technology and Aadhaar number.
Earlier, despite lots of effort, it absolutely was quite difficult to locate the families of the lost children, especially those that strayed at a young age.
Social welfare director Rajkumar said that every one the youngsters kept within the homes were being enrolled for his or her unique identification and people who already had their Aadhaar enrolment were immediately detected.
“In those cases, we write to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to induce the cardboard of the kid, which carries their signaling and address,” he said. He informed that from Bhagalpur child care home two of the three children, including one speech and hearing impaired child, were rehabilitated using technology and Aadhaar.
Once the cards arrive during a sealed envelope thanks to security reasons, they’re handed over to the concerned homes, where the cards are opened. “If the signaling is found working, it makes the work easier in locating the families. If it’s not working or there’s no mobile number, the address is found with the assistance of kid protection units of the concerned area,” said the director.
He said that Aadhaar was springing up to be a giant help in locating families of lost children and that we are hopeful that within the coming months, an oversized number of kids will reach their homes. “In some cases, the families were emotionally overpowered on seeing their kids back safe after having given up. a number of the youngsters, including special children, united with their families not only in various districts of Bihar but also in province and Jharkhand, after having spent years at care homes,” he added.
The campaign to make sure the Aadhaar enrolment of each child living in care homes started in 2019 following the Centre’s directive during this regard. The Centre put in situ a regular procedure (SOP) for state authorities to feature all kids in orphanages or childcare homes to the Aadhaar database and Bihar implemented it to reap its benefits.
