Ballari/Nizamabad: An Aadhaar card enrolment drive at a relief home helped three runaway children, who were also mentally challenged, get reunited with their families in AP and Telangana states. During a recent special enrolment camp at the state home for the mentally retarded in the Cantonment area here the biometric data of three children got rejected due to duplication.
The three runaway children, Boyina Kalyan, Babu and Battulavara Madhava Rajanna, were staying at this home after they were rescued. On verification of documents the officials found that these children were already registered. With this data, the officials traced the parents of the three children, Boyina and Babu to Gudiwada and Chittoor respectively in Andhra Pradesh and Battulavara to Nizamabad in Telangana. With the help of local NGOs there they managed to find the addresses and communicate with the parents.
“We are happy that through our efforts these children have been reunited with their families,” said M.D. Sarvar, district children rescue officer. After two years, a deaf and dumb boy will be reunited with his family, thanks to the Aadhaar database. The boy, Battulwar Mahadev, 17, belongs to Kodichera village in Madnoor mandal. The boy is at present in an orphanage in Ballari in Karnataka.
According to sources, Mahadev's father Rajanna died and his mother left home and went to her parents in Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the boy went missing from Kodichera village on the borders of Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Since then, the whereabouts of Mahadev was not known. The UIDAI office in Bengaluru found that the biometric details of the three teenagers including Mahadev were rejected as they were already in the database. After background checks the teenagers were traced to their villages in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states. The relatives of Mahadev will receive him soon.
