Bring Midwife as Birth Proof, 64-year-old told

Now what would you say to this report that Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon has asked a man to Bring Midwife as Birth Proof. As per a report:

Madan Lal Jain has a task he is unlikely to ever fulfil: track down the midwife who assisted in his birth 64 years ago. Jain, a businessman in Gurgaon, needed a birth certificate, so he went to the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon and asked for one. 

And that was when he was told to get an affidavit signed by the midwife and two neighbours from 1949, the year he was born. The midwife was in her 40s when Jain was born, which would make at least 104 years old now. "When I went to the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon office for my birth certificate, I was told records were preserved only from 1963. 

The officials said I would have to get a hospital record or a signed affidavit from the midwife apart from the signatures of two people who were neighbours in 1949," said Jain, who was born at his home in Gopal Nagar in old Gurgaon. Jain does have a documented date of birth — his Punjab University marksheet — but says the officials told him it wasn't a valid paper to obtain a birth certificate.

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