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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Now, street kids to get Aadhaar cards -Ambika Pandit

Now, street kids to get Aadhaar cards -Ambika Pandit

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published Published on May 26, 2013   modified Modified on May 26, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: Children on the streets of Delhi can now get a unique identity through the UID-Aadhaar programme. The state government's women and child development department has asked NGOs to support the process of enrollment for the biometrics-based identity number that will enable access to social entitlements. After it received a communication from the Unique Identification Authority of India in February regarding enrollment for UID cards for orphan children, the department wrote to NGOs registered with the state and those running childcare institutions.

The order also applies to street children. This information came through at a consultation on government schemes for underprivileged children organized at the India International Centre annexe on Saturday. Senior officials from the department confirmed that the direction applies to all vulnerable children, not just those in institutional care. Now, NGOs working with children at railway stations and on the streets can endorse them at the time of enrollment.

Copies of the letter from the UIDAI to the state on the enrollment process were circulated among stakeholders, mostly NGOs, Child Welfare Committee members, researchers and networks working with children in vulnerable circumstances at the consultation on Saturday.

A certificate issued by a "Group A" gazetted officer will serve as a valid proof of identity and proof of address for enrollment. The circular states that certificates issued by childcare institutions are signed by welfare officers who are Group A gazetted officers, hence certification from them will do. Providing information on the unique identity enrollment process, Premodaya Khaka, assistant director with the women and child development department, said even NGOs can endorse a child. He asked NGOs to support the process.


The Times of India, 26 May, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Now-street-kids-to-get-Aadhaar-cards/articleshow/20266747.cms


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