1. On the oral request of the petitioner, the State of Tamil Nadu through its Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, is impleaded as party to this writ petition.

2. The petitioner has approached this Court, with a prayer for issuance of a writ in the nature of Mandamus, directing respondents to rectify the error in the date of birth of the petitioner, which was wrongly entered in her service register and other relevant records as 28.09.1954 instead of 02.07.1956.

3. The petitioner submits that she was born on 02.07.1956 at Ponkurichi Kallupatti Village, Rasipuram Taluk, Namakkal District. The date of birth registered with the Registrar of Birth and Death, is 05.07.1956. However, at the time of her admission to elementary school, her date of birth was wrongly entered as 28.09.1954. This date of birth was thereafter recorded in the SSLC certificate and all other documents.

4. The petitioner joined as Lecturer in the Government Arts College for Men at Namakkal on 26.03.1993 through the Teaching Recruitment Board. She was thereafter transferred to Thiruvalluvar Government Arts College for Men, Rasipuram, where she is working till date.

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