Govt hospitals to soon start Aadhaar linked birth registration of newborns

Government hospitals and health centres across India will soon start enroling children for Aadhaar – the 12-digit unique identity number – at their premises soon after the child’s birth.

Hospital, community and primary health centres will be provided with a tablet and their staff trained to carry out the enrolment. For generating the unique number, the hospital will get the child’s photograph and biometric detail of one of their parents.

“Enroling children right after birth will ensure better delivery of entitlements and services under Integrated Child Development Scheme and various government run programmes. Not only will it help track the nutritional status of the child from birth but also monitor if anganwadi workers are delivering services at their respective centre,” ABP Pandey, Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) director general, said.

Aadhaar can also be used to track attendance of children in their schools at a later stage, Pandey added. For original and complete post see here