Right Away, Baby. Aadhar Number 22 Minutes After She Was Born

Young Rakhi was not even an hour old when she got her Aadhaar number. Within 22 minutes of her birth - at a local health centre in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua- she was registered. The card will reach the family within a week.

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad noted the event with a retweet:
This baby gets #Aadhar within 22 minutes after birth. @_DigitalIndia for #TransformingIndia under @narendramodi
 

This baby gets #Aadhar within 22 minutes after birth. @_DigitalIndia for #TransformingIndia under @narendramodi https://t.co/gmxh8fA54I

- Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) May 3, 2016

Last year, the UIDAI (the unique identification authority of India) had relaxed its rules to bring children aged under five years under its ambit.

Earlier children were not registered for Aadhaar "because up to age of 5 years kid's biometric data like fingerprints keep changing," says the UIADI website.

But after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's directive that children can be tracked from birth, the rules were changed.

Under the new rules, children were allowed to have Aadhaar registration even if they had no name. Their biometric details were to be captured after the age of 6 years.  

The UIADI website says, "If an Aadhaar Card of a child below the age of 5 years is created, it will be linked to the parents Aadhaar Card."