JUDGMENT :

S.N. PATHAK, J.

1. The petitioner has assailed the impugned order dated 10/11.11.2020 and 24/25.11.2020 whereby and whereunder his claim for correction in date of birth as per the 10th certificate i.e. Madhyama examination has been rejected.

2. As per factual matrix, the petitioner was appointed on compassionate ground on 17-18.05.1996 under Para 9:4:2 of NCWA-IV as ‘Fitter Helper (T)’ and was posted at the office of General Manager (MRD) at Potkee Balihar Area, Dhanbad for field training.

3. It is specific case of the petitioner that at the time of Medical Examination he had furnished his 10th mark-sheet/certificate issued by the Registrar, Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University, Bihar wherein the date of birth of the petitioner was mentioned as 10.02.1965 but inadvertently date of birth of the petitioner was recorded in Form-B as 09.02.1962. The petitioner was under impression that his date of birth in his service excerpts must have been recorded as 10.02.1965 as per his matriculation certificate. But it was only in the year 2016 he came to know that his date of birth has wrongly been entered as 09.02.1962 in place of 10.02.1965. Thereafter on the basis of Matricula