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All residents of this village born on January 1, say Aadhaar cards




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Aadhaar cards of members of a family in the village show them sharing the same date of birth, though different years.

HIGHLIGHTS
  • Aadhaar cards of all residents of a village in Uttarakhand show they were born on January 1.
  • Residents said they had provided voter ID cards, ration cards to private agency tasked with making Aadhaar cards.
  • Such errors have emerged from other parts of the country too.

DEHRADUN: In his Aadhaar card, Mohammad Khan's date of birth is January 1. Next door, Alafdin also shows his official birthday as January 1. In fact, Alafdin's entire family has the same date of birth on their Aadhaar cards. So do his uncles, aunts and most of the 800 families of Van Gujjars settled in Gaindi Khata village, 20km from Haridwar."We were told we would be getting a unique identification number. But what's unique about it? Even our birthdays are the same now," Alafdin told TOI. Residents said they had provided voter ID cards and ration cards to the private agency tasked with making Aadhaar cards.

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