Maharashtra: Newborn baby gets Aadhaar number within 6 minutes of birth

Within just six minutes after the birth, Bhavna Santosh Jadhav got her Aadhaar number. She was born at the Osmanabad district women's Hospital at 12:03 pm and got her Aadhaar number at 12:09 pm.

According to the district collector Radhakrushna Game, girl's parents enrolled for her Aadhaar number and got the online birth certificate and the Aadhaar number from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

"It's a proud moment for Osmanabad. We will soon register all children for Aadhaar and link them with their parents' Aadhaar cards," he said.

The newborn and her mother were doing fine, the hospital's civil surgeon, Dr Eknath Male, said.

In the last one year, around 1,300 children born at the Osmanabad district women's hospital have got their Aadhaar number.

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