Aadhaar of kids linked to track portal

New Delhi: Amid reports of children going missing from shelter homes from various parts of the country, Aadhaar cards of over 30,000 children living in child care institutions have been linked to the Track Child portal in a bid to bolster the information base on the number of children under institutional care.  The government is linking Aadhaar card with the children in child care institutions to bolster the information base on the number of children under institutional care and a total of 30,835 Aadhaar card numbers have been linked till now, according to a women and child development official.

Track Child functions as a central database of all those children who have gone missing in different parts of the country. The portal will aid coordination between child homes, police departments and state governments. There are a total of 2,61,566 children living in over 9000 CCIs across the country. According to the official, Aadhaar enrolment procedure by child care institutions at times have led authorities to finding parents of the child as during enrolment it was found that children already had an Aadhaar card which had their address.