Ananda Kumari Shahi of Dhulikhel-8 was born in 1950 but a citizenship team that visited her locality 23 years ago had registered her date of birth as 1855. She knew of the error only when she went to get herself photographed for the electronic voting identity card. [break]
"We informed her of the blunder only after the software refused to accept her date of birth," employee at the District Election Commission Office Anjana Thapa said. The software doesn´t recognize date of birth earlier than mid-April 1891.
Shahi said nobody had noticed the error in her citizenship certificate while she went to Land Revenues Office and municipality to avail of their services. The employees at the DAO had failed to notice the error even when entering the citizenship records into computers.
"We are now facing difficulty due to the negligence of DAO officials back then," rued Shahi´s husband Bishwa Narayan. Shahi now will have to go to the DAO to get her identity card.
"We ourselves are sad in not being able to give her the card despite proof of her being a Nepali citizen," Distrcit Election Commissioner Harishchandra Ghimire conceded.
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