Maha: Aadhaar helps 18-yr-old mentally-challenged man reunite with family

An 18yearold mentallychallenged man who had gone missing at the age of eight years from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and started living in Maharashtrarsquos Nagpur was reunited with his family with the help of his Aadhaar details an official said on SaturdayBefore he went missing in 2011 his family members had got his Aadhaar registration done which now helped in tracing them he saidThe man was handed over to his biological parents on June 30 said Samarth Damle who looked after him all these years as a family memberDamle used to run an orphanage at Panchsheel Nagar in Nagpur which was closed down in 2015ldquoThe boy was found at the railway station when he was around eight years old He was brought to our orphanage by the policerdquo Damle told PTI ldquoHe is mentallychallenged and is unable to speak properly We named him Aman as he could only utter lsquoAmma Ammarsquo He stayed in the orphanage till 2015 But after the facility shut down Aman had no one to look after him so we brought him home and since then he had been living with us as a family member I have one daughter and a sonrdquo he addedAman was also admitted to a local school and he studied in Class X this year Damle said ldquoThe school needed his Aadhaar card details I tried to register his name for Aadhaar but it used to get rejected due to the biometric issues After that I approached the UIDAI office in Nagpurs Mankapur area where the centre manager found that Amanrsquos Aadhaar registration had already been done and his real name was Mohammed Aamir which ultimately helped us in tracing his familyrdquo he addedTalking to PTI centre manager of Aadhaar Seva Kendra in Mankapur Anil Marathe said that Damle had approached his office for Amanrsquos Aadhaar registration on June 3ldquoWe tried to register his name several times but due to the biometric issues it was not happening So with the help of UIDAIs tehnical centre in Bengaluru and the regional office in Mumbai we were successful in getting his Aadhaar details based on his biometric detailsrdquo he saidIt was found that his Aadhaar registration had been done in 2011 in Jabalpur and his real name was Mohammed Aamir he addedldquoThe photos of Aman and Mohammed Aamir also matchedrdquo Marathe saidHe said Damle told him that Aman was found at the railway station 10 years back and had been living as his family member ldquoSo with Damlersquos consent I contacted my old friends in Jabalpur who with the help of locals found out Amanrsquos real parents living in Hanumantal area of Jabalpur After that both the families spoke over phonerdquo he saidAamirs parents who run a food stall in Jabalpur visited the Damle family in Nagpur and after following all the procedures he was handed over to them on June 30 Marathe added I feel blessed that I could help in reuniting Aman with his biological parents he saidDamle said that although it was hard for him and his family to hand over Aman to his parents they were also happy for their reunion ldquoAmanrsquos family members said they were grateful and also told us that we are welcome to meet him anytimerdquo he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever