My actual date of birth and official date of birth

My actual date of birth and official date of birth

My actual date of birth is 22 Oct 1975 and official date of birth is 20 Sep 1975.

The practice in India in the past was to Decide a date of birth to admit the children with out losing a year.

Hence they, the parents chose to inform or write different date while admitting kids to the school or in the date of birth certificate.

Now days this is not possible as the hospital gives a acknowledgement certificate of birth and that becomes the basis for date of birth certificate issued to us.

The parents chose different date of birth to get a extra year in their children career. However, the main reason or cause behind this was the cut off date set by the Government.

Now, the cut off is synced with the school calendar year to stop such tactics.

Why? Give so much importance to a year.. The kids brains develop as they reach certain age so such tactics could have been avoided in the past...

Any ways, this is not possible nowadays.... As the process is better...