1. The petitioner has filed this present writ petition seeking correction of date of birth in service record as 6.8.1960 in place of 1.3.1955. With the consent of the parties, present writ petition is heard finally as the petitioner is going to retire on 28.2.2017 on the basis of date of birth recorded in service record.

2. The petitioner was appointed as helper (contingency) in the year 1978. At that time, he was not having any proof in respect of his date of birth as 1.3.1955. In the year 2015, he came to know that the department has recorded his date of birth as 1.3.1955, therefore, he immediately rushed to the Government Boys Primary School, Gandhisagar, District Mandsaur where, he took admission in Class 1. He obtained school leaving certificate/transfer certificate, where his date of birth was recorded as 6.8.1960. Thereafter, he submitted representation on 1.10.2015 seeking correction of date of birth as 6.8.1960. Thereafter, he submitted various representations. Meanwhile, the petitioner also got birth certificate on 16.11.2015 from the Gram Panchayat, voter ID card, PAN card and prayed for correction of date of birth. The representations of the petitioner were forwarde