Aadhaar: Kanpur: UIDAI’s software helps girl to reunite with family. Kanpur News – Times of India

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) unit in Kanpur has helped a speech-impaired 12-year-old girl to be reunited with her parents after two years with the help of district authorities. Base Fingerprint verification.
girl, ManuFound roaming around at Kanpur Central Railway Station, was rescued by child helpline on February 1, 2020. After confirming that she was single, her volunteers shifted her to a government shelter home, where she spent about two years. On January 23, 2022, he was taken for Aadhaar enrollment where he provided his fingerprint. But the software rejected his fingerprint as a similar name existed in Ram Nagar, Ludhiana.silky,
Kanpur district officials contacted a regional base office in Ludhiana and confirmed that Manu’s fingerprints matched that of Reshmi’s in Ram Nagar area. The center official contacted the authorities in Ludhiana to trace the parents of the girl. She reunited with her parents on Monday.
Sources in the Government Girls’ Home in Swaroop Nagar said that when the girl was found at the railway station about two years ago, she could not give any information about her name, address and family.
The Government Girls’ Home Superintendent gave the girl a new name “Manu”. After the age of 12, the superintendent started the process of getting her to school in the classroom. v. as wellAn order has also come from the Directorate of Women’s Welfare to make Aadhar card for unclaimed children.
On 23 January, when the UIDAI team started taking thumb impressions and eye scans at the Balika Griha, they realized that Manu’s biometric record already existed. The team went to Lucknow and took out Manu’s already made Aadhar card on the basis of his fingerprint and retina scan.
Six days ago the team came to the girl’s home and handed over the basis of Manu to the superintendent, Urmila Gupta, Then they realized that Manu’s real name was Reshmi and she was from Ramnagar, Ludhiana.
“We immediately contacted the Ludhiana Child Welfare Committee. The committee there traced Manu’s parents to Ram Nagar Colony. Thereafter, I called the girl’s parents to Kanpur. On Monday, Reshmi’s father Shankar Rai, mother Bindu Devi, brother Mitraranjan and aunt Shabnam arrived in the city. Their joy was endless to have Reshmi in front of them,” said Urmila Gupta.
The superintendent said that the girl would be handed over to her parents after being produced before the Child Welfare Committee.