Amara (seated) with her children and grandsons at their home in Alor Gajah.
ALOR GAJAH: Forty-eight-year-old widow M. Amara has 10 children and four grandsons. However, seven of her children and all her grandsons do not officially exist because they don’t have proper identification papers or MyKad.
Amara said she had always let her late husband deal with the necessary paper work after giving birth each time.
“I am not an educated person so I let him handle it,” she said, adding that her husband was an odd job worker and a frequent drinker, who died of alcohol poisoning in 200.
“We live in a secluded area and rarely venture out. ” she said when met at her dilapidated wooden shelter home.
Only three of her children Sasikumar, 29, Premraj, 26, and Prema, 24, have obtained the MyKad.
Her other children – Chrisdan, 27, Suresh, 20, Rajakumar, 19, Selvamoorthy, 17, Visaletchumy, 16, and Dhanaletchumy, 12, – do not have MyKad.
When contacted, state government welfare unit officer S. Mahadevan said the unit needed to verify if all the individuals involved were from the same family.
He said the National Registration Department office had scheduled a meeting with the family on June 17.
Courtesy: The Star Online.Amara said she had always let her late husband deal with the necessary paper work after giving birth each time.
“I am not an educated person so I let him handle it,” she said, adding that her husband was an odd job worker and a frequent drinker, who died of alcohol poisoning in 200.
“We live in a secluded area and rarely venture out. ” she said when met at her dilapidated wooden shelter home.
Only three of her children Sasikumar, 29, Premraj, 26, and Prema, 24, have obtained the MyKad.
Her other children – Chrisdan, 27, Suresh, 20, Rajakumar, 19, Selvamoorthy, 17, Visaletchumy, 16, and Dhanaletchumy, 12, – do not have MyKad.
When contacted, state government welfare unit officer S. Mahadevan said the unit needed to verify if all the individuals involved were from the same family.
He said the National Registration Department office had scheduled a meeting with the family on June 17.
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