In Shivpuri, One Birthday To Link Them All

With no documents to prove their age, Kakra residents get January 1 as default date on Aadhaar card

- Sidharth Yadav

“I think I am 30,” says Kallo Adiwasi who, according to her crisp Aadhaar card, is 39, and going by her tattered black-and-white voter ID, 49.

But there’s one thing that this member of the vulnerable Saharia tribe shares with other residents of Kakra village in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district: the date and the month of birth mentioned on the Aadhaar card — January 1.

Young or old, male or female, in fact, anyone without a proof of date of birth has been shown to be born on January 1.