Aadhaar traces 500 missing Children: UIDAI
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Over the last few months, efforts have been going on to trace missing children. So far, 500 missing children have been traced through Aadhaar card, the CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Said in a news report.
According to him, total Aadhaar base stands at 1.19 billion with 99% of adults having it.
Addressing a session at the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS) 2017, he said that over last few months more than 500 missing children have been located using Aadhaar card. Explaining further on this, he said this happened in incidents where a child is found in an orphanage underwent Aadhaar enrolment. “It was found that their 12 digits biometric identifier had already been made, through which they were able to trace”. Pandey said.
He was also seen joking about Bollywood movies where the siblings get separate and reunite after decades would now have to be reworked with Aadhaar in the picture.
It is to be noted that India stands among the nations which have the largest number of children in the world. It is about 40% of the 1.2 billion population is below the age group of 18, as per 2011 census.
Pandey, concluded, at the session that, Digital Identity for all has helped remove ghosts and duplicates from the system and also, saved around $10 billion due to its linkages to various government schemes.
