14.04.2017
VADODARA/RAJPIPLA: Had it not been for his Aadhar card enrolment, 12-year-old Sanjay Nagnath Yenkur would have never found his way back home in Maharashtra's Latur district.
Sanjay, a speech-and-hearing impaired orphan had left his village Henchal in 2014 after a fight with his brother Vijay, and somehow ended up in Gujarat, around 800 km away from his home.
The brothers had lost their parents in 2011, and were under the guardianship of their maternal aunt Sangmaben Manekrao Gante.
On March 22 last year, the Vadodara railway police found Sanjay, then 11, loitering alone in the railway station. Efforts to locate his family proved futile as he could not communicate. He was sent to the government-run deaf and mute residential school run by Bal Suraksha Ayog at Rajpipla in Gujarat's Narmada district. Chetan Parmar, Narmada district child protection officer said, "We tried to get some clue or information from him about his home but in vain. So, we decided to name him Aakash and admitted him in class II."
Sanjay was finally identified in January 2017 when a mandatory Aadhaar enrolment camp was organised in his school. All the students underwent fingerprint and retina scans, and were successfully registered with the UIDAI server, but Aakash's registration could not go through. On checking the Aadhaar website, it came to light that his details duplicated, as he already had enrolled for an Aadhaaar card in 2011 under the name of Sanjay Nagnath Yenkur.
"We approached our counterparts in Latur district and asked them to verify these credentials," said Parmar, adding that authorities informed Sanjay's caretaker of his whereabouts after the revelation.
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