IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3037 of 2010 1. SUNAINA KUMARI D/O SARVANATH CHAUBEY R/O VILL MUJAN ,P.S.MOHANIA,DISTT-KAIMUR Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR, PATNA 3. THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, KAIMUR 4. THE DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER, KAIMUR 5. BIHAR SCHOOL EXAMINATION BOARD PATNA THROUGH ITS SECRETARY, PATNA 6. THE SECRETARY, BIHAR SCHOOL EXAMINATION BOARD, PATNA ----------- 02. 27.08.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the Bihar School Examination Board. The petitioner is stated to have passed the Matriculation examination conducted by the respondent Board from Shri Krishna High School, Mujan, in the year 1998, on an Admit Card issued by the Board. Her date of birth mentioned in the Matriculation certificate is 10.12.1982. Learned counsel submits that this was an inadvertent error committed by her in submitting the necessary information to the School which in turn forwarded it to the Board. Her correct date of birth is 10.12.1983. She desires correction of the same in her original certificate. Learned counsel for the Board points out that the petitioner seeks correction after nearly 13 years. She herself acknowledges that the entries in the 2 certificate were based on information furnished by her. If the petitioner has applied to the Board, and subject to the feasibility of the Board tracing out 13 years old records, and after ascertainment on facts from the school in question, let the Board endeavor to take an appropriate decision on her request for change of date of birth in accordance with law, preferably within a maximum period of four months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Suffice it to say that the Board does possess the power to make necessary correction as evident from Regulation 18 Chapter 4 of the Bihar School Examination Board Regulation, 1964 when the aforesaid regulation contemplates a change of name of the candidate itself which is a far more serious issue than correction of date of birth. The correction sought is by one year which the candidate to seeks to loose and not the gain. The application stands disposed with the aforesaid direction. P.K. (Navin Sinha, J.)