Aadhaar centre in Nagpur helps 14 missing persons reunite with families

A simple application for Aadhaar card in Maharashtra changed the lives of 14 people who were reported missing by their families in various parts of the country years agoThe Aadhaar Seva Kendra ASK in Mankapur has been instrumental in reuniting differently abled persons women among others with their families scattered across the country in the last one yearThe centrersquos manager Honorary Captain Anil Marathe identified special cases during the registration process wherein the applications would get rejected because of issues with biometricsldquoIt all started last year with the application of an 18yearold mentally challenged man whose school needed his Aadhaar card details However his application would get rejected each time due to issues with biometricsrdquo Marathe saidThe boy was found at a railway station when he was eight years old and was looked after by an orphanage and later by one Samarth Damle who got him admitted to a school he saidAlso readNames of 818 lakh voters deleted from Thane electoral rollsWhen the boyrsquos application got rejected repeatedly Damle approached the centre in Mankapur and it was found that his Aadhaar registration had already been done in 2011 before he was reported missing he saidldquoInvestigations revealed that the boyrsquos name was Mohammed Aamir and he had gone missing from his home in Jabalpur of Madhya Pradesh With the help of his Aadhaar details we were able to trace his family and he was reunited with themrdquo Marathe saidMarathe has been taking special efforts with the help of the UIDAI technical centre in Bengaluru and the regional office in Mumbai and was successful in getting Aadhaar details of persons reported missing based on their biometric dataThe centre had recently helped a 21yearold specially abled man who was reported missing six years ago reunite with his family based in BiharThe man who was given the name Prem Ramesh Ingale was found at Nagpur railway station when he was 15 years old in November 2016 and was placed in an orphanageAuthorities from the orphanage visited the ASK in July for Aadhaar registration but the manrsquos application kept getting rejected and after further probe it was found that the applicant already had an Aadhaar which was generated in 2016ldquoThe man was then identified as Sochan Kumar a resident of Khagariya district in Bihar On August 12 with the help of the thumb print his identity was disclosed The family was contacted in Bihar and he was reunited with them after completing the legal procedures on August 19rdquo Marathe saidAfter reading reports about missing persons in Nagpur being reunited with families an ashram in Panvel contacted the UIDAI centre in Mumbai about its inmates and a camp was conducted there by MaratheThe camp was conducted at the ashram run by SEAL an NGO in Wangini village of Panvel in June The ashram rescues rehabilitates and reunites homeless personsThe organisation had been seeking Aadhaar registration for its inmates and was facing the same problem of their enrollment IDs EIDs getting rejected the official saidDetails of 25 missing people could be found and of these seven have been reunited with their families he said adding that the process to trace the families of 18 others is underway