Jan 1 birth date in Aadhaar cards for 250 Pokhran villagers

What's in a day? Plenty, if you are a resident of a remote village near Pokhran in Rajasthan.

Some 250 villagers of Pabupadia in Jaisalmer district -- like villagers in Kanjasa, near Allahabad -- have found that their new Aadhaar cards cite their date of birth as January 1.

It came to our notice through some locals that their Aadhaar cards had January 1 as their date of birth," Vinod Kumar Chhangani, informatics officer of the department of IT and Communication, Jaisalmer, told

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