JUDGMENT :

A.K. Rath, J.

Plaintiff is the appellant against a confirming judgment in a suit for declaration that his date of birth is 13.03.1958 and mandatory injunction.

2. The case of the plaintiff is that he was born on 13.03.1958. His parents got him admitted in U.P. School, Balbaspur (now U.G.M.E. School, Balbaspur) in Class-I. At the time of admission, his date of birth was correctly recorded as 13.03.1958 in the school admission register. Thereafter, he prosecuted his study in the Talab High School. After completion of H.S.C. Examination, he received the certificate from the Board of Secondary Education, Orissa in the year 1976. He found that his date of birth has been wrongly entered in the certificate as 13.03.1957 in place of 13.03.1958. Immediately, he wrote a letter on 10.05.1976 to the Secondary, Board of Secondary Education, Orissa, Cuttack for correction of the date of birth. After his graduation, he joined as a junior assistant in the office of the Chief Engineer, Irrigation, Orissa, Bhubaneswar on 26.06.1980. On 12.05.1985, he wrote a letter to the Chief Engineer, Irrigation, Orissa, Bhubaneswar for correction of date of birth in his Service Book. But then the authori