Villagers of Kanjasa are a perplexed lot. Going by their newly acquired Aadhaar cards, some 1,000 of them
should be celebrating their birthday on the same day — January 1.
It is, however, not a coincidence but a technical goof-up that has led to the situation where every fifth person in Kanjasa, Bara in Allahabad, finds January 1 as their official date of birth.
Flooded with complaints from the locals that their unique identity or Aadhaar cards did not mention the actual dates of birth, the authorities have ordered a probe and are trying to take remedial measures.
“Nearly 1,000 (of the 5,000) residents have complained about faulty entries of their date of birth. The odd thing is that the date printed on all these cards is identical — January 1 — with variations in the years of birth,” said Neeraj Dubey, Block Development Officer (BDO), Jasra, under which the village falls.