Gazette Office in Delhi
The gazette office in Delhi is the Department of Publication at Civil Lines, behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro station. There are three other Government of India printing establishments in this city, and one of them prints name change forms, which is exactly why people end up at the wrong address. Here is the right one, the numbers the Government publishes for change of name enquiries, and what the office does and does not do.
Where is the gazette office in Delhi?
The written answer is directly below, in about sixty words. If you would rather see the office and the address explained once before reading, start here.
Gazette Office in Delhi, and its address
The gazette office in Delhi is the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054, a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, headed by the Controller of Publications. Its published numbers are 011-23817823 and 011-23819689, with a toll free line on 1800-11-3765. It publishes; it does not print. The three Government of India Presses in this city print and do not take your application.
What is the gazette office in Delhi, and what does it do?
One address, a set of direct numbers, and a distinction that saves a wasted morning.
At a glance
- The office: Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, behind the Vidhan Sabha Metro station.
- Under: the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Headed by the Controller of Publications.
- Published numbers: 011-23817823 and 011-23819689, plus a toll free line on 1800-11-3765.
- For change of name: ask for extension 221 or 222, which is what the Department's own contact sheet directs those enquiries to.
- It publishes, it does not print. Printing is done by the Directorate of Printing at three separate presses.
- No agents. Applications are accepted from the applicant directly, in person or by post or courier.
- No online lodging. The egazette portal is where published gazettes are downloaded, not where applications are made.
Key takeaways
- There is one gazette office in Delhi and it is at Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. Any other address given for a name change gazette in this city is wrong.
- The Department publishes a specific set of numbers for change of name and public notice enquiries, with extensions 221 and 222. Almost no competing page carries them.
- Delhi also has three Government of India Presses, at Minto Road, Ring Road Mayapuri and Rashtrapati Bhawan, run by the Directorate of Printing. They print. They do not receive applications.
- The Minto Road trap: that press's own published list of printing work includes “Name change, religion, sex, etc.” under the Gazette of India, which is why people arrive there by mistake.
- There is no online submission for a name change. The egazette portal is a download portal.
- Publication takes about 30 to 45 days in Part IV after the file is received, not 7 to 30.
- The Government fee is commonly Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor and Rs 3,500 from abroad, on bharatkosh.gov.in only. Ranges starting at a few hundred rupees are wrong.
- No demand drafts, no CD, and documents once submitted are not returned.
- The office is old: the Central Publication Branch was established in Calcutta on 1 April 1924 and transferred to Delhi in 1932.
- It does not correct birth certificates, board certificates or degrees. Those are Registrar and institutional processes that a gazette supports rather than replaces.
What is the address of the gazette office in Delhi?
That is the whole answer to the question. Everything else on this page is context for it.
| Detail | What the Department publishes |
|---|---|
| Office | Department of Publication |
| Address | Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054 |
| Ministry | A subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India |
| Headed by | The Controller of Publications, assisted by an Assistant Controller (Administration), an Assistant Controller (Business) and a Financial Officer |
| Telephone | 011-23817823 and 011-23819689 |
| Toll free | 1800-11-3765 |
| acop-dep@nic.in | |
| Website | deptpub.gov.in |
One note on the email. The live contact page gives acop-dep@nic.in. Some of the Department's older published contact sheets carry pub.dep@nic.in. If you write, use the address on the live site, and if it bounces try the other. We would rather tell you both than pretend the record is tidier than it is.
Which number do you call about a name change?
This is the most useful thing on this page, and almost nobody carries it.
The Department's own published contact sheets list a specific set of numbers for change of name and public notice enquiries, separately from the general switchboard. The line reads, in the Government's own words:
| Purpose | Number |
|---|---|
| Change of name and public notice enquiries | 011-23813761, 011-23810150, 011-23819689, 011-23817823, extensions 221 and 222 |
| General office | 011-23817823, 011-23819689 |
| Toll free | 1800-11-3765 |
| Controller of Publications | 011-23812527 |
| Assistant Controller (Administration), Head of Office | 011-23813761 |
| Assistant Controller (Business) | 011-23810150 |
| Financial Officer | 011-23813762 |
| Fax | 011-23817846 |
Two practical notes before you dial
Ask for the extension
221 or 222, when you call the general numbers. That is what the Government's own sheet directs change of name enquiries to, and it saves being passed around a switchboard.
Call before you travel
Government offices keep their own calendar of working days and timings, and a wasted trip is worse than a posted envelope. Confirm the timings and the current document list in one call.
Before you make that call, know what you are asking about.
Most people who ring the gazette office are not sure yet whether they need a gazette at all. Send us your documents on WhatsApp first. In one call we will tell you whether your case belongs with this office, a Registrar or a board, what the Government fee actually is, and which written form of your name should stand. Then we prepare and check the file, and you sign and submit it yourself, because the Department accepts it from nobody else. Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 6 PM.
Why do people end up at the wrong Government address?
This is where it goes wrong, and the confusion is entirely reasonable.
Delhi holds the Department of Publication and, separately, three Government of India Presses run by the Directorate of Printing. They are different organisations doing different jobs, and only one of them has anything to do with your application.
| Establishment | Address | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Publication | Civil Lines, Delhi 110054 | Receives, assesses and publishes. THIS is where your name change file goes |
| Government of India Press, Minto Road | New Delhi 110002 | Prints. Its own listed work includes name change, religion and sex forms, which is exactly why people arrive here by mistake |
| Government of India Press, Ring Road | Mayapuri, New Delhi 110064 | Prints. Established to meet growing demand in the Delhi complex |
| Government of India Press, Rashtrapati Bhawan | New Delhi 110004 | Prints. Descended from the Press of the Private Secretary to the Viceroy, established 1872 |
The Minto Road trap, spelled out
The Directorate of Printing's own page for that press lists the printing work it handles. Under the heading for the Gazette of India, that list reads: “Ordinance, Acts, Resolution, Name change, religion, sex, etc.”
So somebody searching for where name change gazettes are printed will land on Minto Road and quite logically conclude that is the office to visit. It is not. Minto Road is a printing works; it produces the printed product. The Department of Publication at Civil Lines is what accepts your application, decides what is published, and puts it in the Gazette.
The press is worth a sentence of history for its own sake. The Directorate records that, following the announcement at the Coronation Durbar held at Delhi in 1911, some Central Secretariat departments moved from Calcutta to Delhi in 1912; the Delhi press was separated as its own establishment in 1923 and moved to its Minto Road building in 1931. It prints for the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the Election Commission, the Ministry of Defence, the Civil List and a great deal else. None of that makes it your destination.
What does the Department of Publication actually do?
It is not only a gazette office. Understanding its real remit helps you understand what it will and will not do for you.
Publishes the Gazette of India
Ordinary gazettes appear weekly; extraordinary gazettes appear on any day, depending on the urgency of what is being published.
Receives personal name change applications
And processes them for publication in Part IV, along with public notices. This is the part that concerns you.
Acts as the authorised publisher and custodian
Of Government of India publications, holding a depository of over eight thousand titles.
Runs sale counters
Including at the Civil Lines headquarters, at Kitab Mahal on Baba Kharag Singh Marg and at the Delhi High Court, with further counters in Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru.
How old is this office?
Older than most people assume, and it is worth a paragraph because people ask. The Central Publication Branch, as it then was, was established in Calcutta on 1 April 1924, taking over functions previously performed by a Publication Section inside the Government of India Press there. It was transferred to Delhi in 1932, and the Manager of the Central Publication Branch became the Manager of Publications in 1933.
What does this office not do?
The source of most wasted journeys, and most wasted money.
It does not accept applications from agents
Applications are accepted from the applicant directly, in person or by post or courier. A service can prepare and check your file; you sign it and submit it.
It does not sell faster publication
Part IV runs on its own schedule. There is no counter, no fee and no service that moves you up it. Anybody promising expedited Government processing is describing their own turnaround.
It does not take demand drafts
Payment is only through bharatkosh.gov.in. Pages telling you to prepare a draft in favour of the Controller of Publications are years out of date.
It does not want a CD
The soft copy is submitted as a file. The CD requirement disappeared long ago and still appears on several sites.
It does not post you a printed gazette
Hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015. You download the PDF yourself from egazette.gov.in, free, and it needs no certification.
It does not correct certificates
Not birth certificates, board certificates or degrees. Those are Registrar and institutional processes. The gazette supports such applications; it does not replace them.
It does not return your documents
Documents once submitted are not returned, so never hand over an original you could not obtain again.
It does not accept online submission
There is no online lodging of a name change application. The egazette portal is a download portal, whatever you may have read.
How do you get there, and what should you take?
The office is at Civil Lines, immediately behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro station, so it is genuinely reachable without a car.
The complete file
Assembled in order, so nothing has to be hunted for at a counter.
A spare set of photocopies
Of everything. Cheap insurance, and occasionally the difference between one trip and two.
Your own photo identity
Because you are submitting it. Nobody else may.
The BharatKosh payment receipt
Printed. The fee is paid before submission, not at the counter.
The complete original newspaper pages
Not cuttings, with the dates visible. Trimmed clippings are refused.
And one phone call, first
On the change of name numbers above. Confirm working days, timings and the current document list before you set out.
What goes in the file you submit here?
For completeness, since most people arriving at this page are about to prepare one.
The notarised affidavit
Stating your old name, new name, parentage, address and the reason for the change, on non-judicial stamp paper.
Two newspaper advertisements
Complete original pages kept, one Hindi and one English, with the dates visible.
The notice for Part IV
Showing your parentage and residential address, forwarded in original.
A signed undertaking
Showing your old and new name with full parentage and address, declaring the facts are true.
The proforma, in duplicate
Two copies, computer typed and not handwritten, signed and attested, with two witnesses' details.
The soft copy
The print matter without the witness portion, in MS Word. No CD.
The matching certificate
Signed by you, declaring that the hard copy and soft copy contents are the same.
Identity proofs, photographs and the request letter
Self-attested identity proof of applicant and each witness, two photographs, and a request letter to the Controller of Publications.
How does a Delhi name change run, start to finish?
The file above is the third stage, not the first. A name change in Delhi runs in three parts, and the gazette office only handles the last one. First the notarised affidavit on non-judicial stamp paper, carrying your old name, new name, parentage, address and the reason. Then two newspaper advertisements, one Hindi and one English, of which you keep the complete original pages and not cuttings. Only then the notice for Part IV, which is what this office publishes.
It is also worth separating the two phrases people use interchangeably. A name change is what the gazette publishes. A name correction on a birth certificate is a different application altogether, made to the registering authority under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, at the municipal body that issued the certificate. The gazette supports that application. It does not replace it, and no gazette entry rewrites a certificate on its own.
After publication you download the PDF free from egazette.gov.in. It needs no certification and no printed copy is posted to you, because hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015. That download is what you attach when you update Aadhaar, PAN, the bank, the passport and your employment record, in that order.
How to Name Change in Delhi | Gazette office in Delhi | Name Correction in Delhi | Name Change
What are the fees, and how long does publication take?
Fees are revised each financial year, so confirm on deptpub.gov.in before paying.
| Item | Amount or period |
|---|---|
| Government fee, adult | Commonly Rs 1,100 |
| Government fee, minor | Commonly Rs 1,700 |
| Government fee, Indians abroad | Commonly Rs 3,500, plus embassy attestation and courier |
| How to pay | Only through bharatkosh.gov.in. Non-refundable. No demand draft |
| Publication after the file is received | About 30 to 45 days, in Part IV |
| Getting your copy | Download free from egazette.gov.in. No certification needed |
Should you trust a quoted fee of a few hundred rupees?
No. Treat any quoted gazette fee of a few hundred rupees with suspicion. We have found one well-ranked page giving the charge as Rs 520 in one paragraph and Rs 523 in another, on the same page, neither of which matches the Central figure. A range starting at Rs 500 invites exactly that confusion, which is why this page gives the actual figures with the revision caveat rather than a range.
What is the Rs 250 per alias charge you may have read about?
It is a misreading that has spread across a great many guides. The additional charge relates to a change of religion case, not to each additional alias name. Since the schedule is revised each financial year in any event, read the current rate on deptpub.gov.in before you pay, rather than trusting any figure a guide prints, including ours.
Which pages about this office get it wrong?
This particular search brings up an unusual amount of bad information, and since you are about to act on what you read, here is what to watch for.
A Mumbai address under a Delhi heading
One page titled as the gazette office address in Delhi gives an address in Ghatkopar West, Mumbai, along with two different sets of opening hours on the same page.
Two different fees in one article
Another gives the official charge as Rs 520.00 and then instructs the reader to pay Rs 523.00 online further down. Neither is the Central fee.
Testimonials from another city
A third site's Delhi page carries customer reviews praising an advertising company in Bengaluru. Read the reviews on any page you are about to trust, and check they are about the city you are in.
Claims of online submission
There is no online lodging of a name change application. The egazette portal is for downloading published gazettes. An outstation reader who goes looking for a submit button will not find one.
Invented eligibility rules
There is no requirement that an applicant have no pending court cases. That condition appears across several sites and is not part of any Government procedure.
The wrong gazette entirely
A personal name change publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. A Delhi Gazette does exist as a separate publication, which makes “Part IV of the Gazette of Delhi” worse than a typo, because a reader may go looking for the wrong one.
Who do we help with files for this office?
Anyone whose file goes to Civil Lines, which is everyone in India applying for a change of name in Part IV.
Across Delhi
Civil Lines, Kashmere Gate, Karol Bagh, Connaught Place, Lajpat Nagar, Dwarka, Rohini, Saket, Laxmi Nagar and the rest of the NCT, for whom submitting in person is genuinely practical. The Delhi route is set out stage by stage in our name change procedure in Delhi.
Across the NCR
Ghaziabad, Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad and Greater Noida, where the office is close but posting still carries no disadvantage. See the city guides for Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad.
Everywhere else in India
Every file for Part IV comes to this one address by post or courier, so your state does not change the process, as our all India name change guide sets out. Use speed post and keep the tracking receipt.
And Indians abroad
The deed is attested by the Indian Embassy or High Commission, the fee head is the one for applicants abroad, and the file still comes to Civil Lines.
Call 9540005002, WhatsApp 9540005064, or write to support@documentadvisor.in, Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 6 PM. For the full process, see our guide on how to change name legally in Delhi.
What do the terms on this page actually mean?
Each definition stands on its own, so you can read just the one you need.
- Department of Publication
- The office at Civil Lines, behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro station, Delhi 110054, a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. It receives, assesses and publishes. It is what people mean by the gazette office in Delhi.
- Directorate of Printing
- The separate Government organisation that runs the Government of India Presses, including three in Delhi. It prints. It does not receive or assess applications, and it has no counter for a personal name change.
- Controller of Publications
- The officer heading the Department of Publication, assisted by an Assistant Controller (Administration), an Assistant Controller (Business) and a Financial Officer. The request letter accompanying a change of name file is addressed to the Controller.
- Gazette of India
- The official journal of the Union Government, published by the Department of Publication and printed by the Government of India Press. Ordinary gazettes appear weekly; extraordinary gazettes appear on any day depending on urgency.
- Part IV
- The part of the Gazette of India in which private individuals' notices, including change of name, appear. It is Central numbering, so a Part IV reference attached to a state gazette, or to a Gazette of Delhi, is an error.
- Delhi Gazette
- A separate publication from the Gazette of India. Its existence is why saying a personal name change appears in Part IV of the Gazette of Delhi is more damaging than a simple slip: a reader may go looking for the wrong journal entirely.
- Extraordinary gazette
- An issue published on any day, outside the weekly ordinary cycle, when the urgency of the matter requires it. Personal name changes do not go into these; they follow the ordinary Part IV schedule.
- e-Gazette portal
- The site at egazette.gov.in where published gazettes are downloaded, free and without certification. It is a download portal. No application of any kind is lodged there, whatever some pages say.
- Proforma
- The prescribed form for a change of name notice, submitted in duplicate, computer typed rather than handwritten, signed and attested, and carrying the details of two witnesses.
- Affidavit
- A sworn statement on non-judicial stamp paper giving your old name, new name, parentage, address and the reason for the change, signed before a notary. You swear it yourself. The two witnesses belong on the proforma, not here.
- BharatKosh
- The Government of India's Non-Tax Receipt Portal at bharatkosh.gov.in, and the only accepted way to pay the gazette fee. Demand drafts are not accepted and the fee is non-refundable.
- Registrar correction
- A correction to a birth or death entry made by the registering authority under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969. It is a different application to a different office, and the Department of Publication does not make it.
Do you need help preparing the file?
Possibly not, and it is worth saying that first.
The Department accepts applications only from the applicant directly, so nobody can submit on your behalf, and any service claiming to hand your papers in is misdescribing what it does. That is worth knowing before you pay anybody.
What a service can properly do
Prepare and check the file before it is signed and submitted. That matters because the fee is not refundable and a returned application costs a month, and the commonest reasons for return are a mismatch between the affidavit, the notices and the proforma.
And what an honest one will tell you
When your case belongs with a Registrar or a board rather than with the gazette, and when you do not need a gazette at all. Both answers cost us a sale and save you money, and we would rather give them.
Documentadvisor prepares and checks complete applications for people across Delhi and the rest of India. Call 9540005002, WhatsApp 9540005064, or write to support@documentadvisor.in, Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 6 PM.
Your Trust and Security First
Your documents stay private
Papers are handled by our own desk in Burari, Delhi, used for your file and nothing else.
We give you the real address
Civil Lines, behind the Vidhan Sabha Metro station. Not Ghatkopar, not Minto Road, not a page that cannot tell you which city it means.
We settle which version stands
One form of your name, chosen from the record hardest to change, and the passport field split decided before it locks in.
We tell you when you do not need us
If a Registrar correction or a board application solves it, we say so. Both cost a fraction of a gazette, and both lose us the work.
We publish the numbers, not our own
The Government line for change of name enquiries is on this page. Ring it yourself if you would rather. We would still rather you got it right.
We say when we do not know
We print no state fee or turnaround we could not verify. We tell you to read it on the portal at the application stage.
Everything You Need, In One Place
File checking before you submit
The proforma, the soft copy, the witness proofs and the matching certificate, read against the Department own list, so it is accepted the first time.
Settling which version stands
One version of your name, chosen from whichever record is hardest to change, and the passport field split decided before it is re-issued.
Name change and gazette filing
Drafting the affidavit, wording and booking the Hindi and English notices, and preparing the application on whichever route your case belongs to.
File checking before dispatch
The proforma, the soft copy, the witness proofs and the matching certificate, checked against the Department's own list so the file is accepted the first time.
Out-of-state board corrections
Sequencing the gazette first, then the application to whichever board issued your certificate, on that board own timeline.
Birth certificate corrections
Registrar corrections under Section 15 through the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the New Delhi Municipal Council, the Cantonment Board, or a body outside Delhi.
How It Works
Book
Call or WhatsApp us with photographs of every document carrying your name, and tell us whether a passport is in view, whether a board certificate from another state is involved, and whether the problem is actually a birth certificate.
Schedule
We tell you which written form of your name should stand, how the passport fields should be split, what the Government fee actually is, and whether a Registrar correction would have solved it for far less.
Relax
We draft, word the notices and check the file. You sign and submit it yourself at Civil Lines, or post it, because the Department allows nobody else to. Then we sequence the update list with you.
The questions people search for about this office
Where is the gazette office in Delhi?
The Department of Publication, Civil Lines, behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro station, Delhi 110054. It is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, headed by the Controller of Publications.
What number do I call about a name change?
The Department's published contact sheet directs change of name and public notice enquiries to 011-23813761, 011-23810150, 011-23819689 and 011-23817823, extensions 221 and 222. The live contact page also lists a toll free line on 1800-11-3765.
Is the gazette office the same as the Government of India Press?
No, and this is the commonest confusion. Delhi has three Government of India Presses, at Minto Road, Ring Road Mayapuri and Rashtrapati Bhawan, run by the Directorate of Printing. They print. The Department of Publication at Civil Lines receives, assesses and publishes.
Why do people end up at Minto Road?
Because the Directorate of Printing's own page for that press lists “Name change, religion, sex, etc.” among its printing work. It is a reasonable mistake, but Minto Road has no counter for your application.
Can I submit online?
No. There is no online lodging for a name change application. The egazette portal is where published gazettes are downloaded from. If you are outside Delhi, use speed post and keep the tracking receipt.
Can I visit in person?
Yes, and Delhi residents are the only people in India for whom that is practical. Applications are accepted from the applicant directly, so you go yourself; an agent cannot submit for you, and visiting does not make publication faster.
Book your name change
Talk to the desk
Phone: 9540005002
WhatsApp: 9540005064
Email: support@documentadvisor.in
Hours: Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 6 PM
Office: Near Hanuman Mandir, Metro Pillar No. 376, Near Burari Metro Station, Shop No. 2nd Ground Floor, Gali No. 1, Plot No. 31/12, Hardev Nagar, Jharoda Majra, Burari, Delhi 110084
Frequently asked questions about the gazette office in Delhi
Where is the gazette office in Delhi?
The Department of Publication, Civil Lines, behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro station, Delhi 110054. It is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, headed by the Controller of Publications and assisted by two Assistant Controllers and a Financial Officer.
What number do I call about a name change?
The Department's published contact sheet directs change of name and public notice enquiries to 011-23813761, 011-23810150, 011-23819689 and 011-23817823, extensions 221 and 222. The live contact page also gives a toll free line on 1800-11-3765.
Can I visit in person?
Yes, and Delhi residents are the only people in India for whom that is practical. Applications are accepted from the applicant directly, so you go yourself; an agent cannot submit for you, whatever they have charged.
Does visiting make it faster?
No. Part IV publishes on its own schedule. What a personal visit buys is certainty that the file arrived complete, not speed. There is no counter and no fee that moves an application up the schedule.
Can I submit online?
No. There is no online lodging for a name change application. The egazette portal is where published gazettes are downloaded from. If you are outside Delhi, use speed post and keep the tracking receipt.
Is the gazette office the same as the Government of India Press?
No, and this is the commonest confusion. Delhi has three Government of India Presses, at Minto Road, Ring Road Mayapuri and Rashtrapati Bhawan, run by the Directorate of Printing. They print. The Department of Publication at Civil Lines receives, assesses and publishes.
Why do people end up at Minto Road?
Because the Directorate of Printing's own page for that press lists its printing work, and under the Gazette of India that list reads Ordinance, Acts, Resolution, Name change, religion, sex, etc. It is a reasonable mistake, but Minto Road has no counter for your application.
What is the fee?
Commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult, Rs 1,700 for a minor and Rs 3,500 for Indians abroad, revised each financial year, paid only through bharatkosh.gov.in. Treat any quoted figure of a few hundred rupees with suspicion.
What is the Rs 250 per alias charge I keep reading about?
It is a misreading that has spread across a great many guides. The additional charge relates to a change of religion case, not to each additional alias name. Since the schedule is revised each financial year, read the current rate on deptpub.gov.in before you pay.
Can I pay by demand draft?
No. Payment is only through BharatKosh, and the fee is non-refundable. Pages naming a draft in favour of the Controller of Publications are out of date, and several of them are still live.
Do I need to submit a CD?
No. The soft copy is submitted as a file. That requirement disappeared long ago and still appears on several sites, alongside the demand draft it usually travels with.
How long does publication take?
About 30 to 45 days after the file is received, in Part IV of the Gazette of India. If a page tells you 7 to 30 working days, it is describing something other than the Part IV cycle.
Will they post me a printed gazette?
No. Hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015. You download the PDF free from egazette.gov.in and it needs no certification, so print as many copies as the offices you will deal with afterwards.
Do the two witnesses sign the affidavit?
No. You swear the affidavit yourself before a notary. The two witnesses belong on the prescribed proforma, and several pages confuse the two, which leads people to have affidavits redrafted for no reason.
Will my documents be returned?
No. Documents once submitted are not returned, so never hand over an original you could not obtain again. Photograph everything before it leaves your hands.
Do I need to have no pending court cases?
No. That condition appears on several websites and is not part of any Government requirement. The Department's own guidelines impose no such test.
Can the office correct my birth certificate or degree?
No. A birth certificate is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, and a degree or board certificate is corrected by the issuing institution. The gazette supports those applications; it does not replace them.
Does a name change publish in the Gazette of Delhi?
No. A personal name change publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. A Delhi Gazette does exist as a separate publication, which is why that particular error matters: a reader may go looking for the wrong journal.
What else does the Department do?
It publishes the Gazette of India, acts as the authorised publisher and custodian of Government of India publications with a depository of over eight thousand titles, and runs sale counters including at Civil Lines, Kitab Mahal on Baba Kharag Singh Marg and the Delhi High Court.
How old is the office?
The Central Publication Branch was established in Calcutta on 1 April 1924, taking over from a Publication Section inside the Government of India Press there. It was transferred to Delhi in 1932, and its Manager was redesignated Manager of Publications in 1933.
What should I take if I am visiting?
The complete file, a spare set of photocopies, your own photo identity, the BharatKosh receipt, and the complete original newspaper pages with dates visible. Call the change of name numbers first to confirm timings and the current document list.
Where can you verify all of this yourself?
Every claim above can be checked at these sources. Type the addresses yourself rather than following a link from any guide, including this one.
- Department of Publication, Government of IndiaThe office itself, and the source of the address, the ministry it reports to and its composition: Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054, headed by the Controller of Publications and assisted by two Assistant Controllers and a Financial Officer.
- Contact Us, Department of PublicationThe live contact page, giving 011-23817823 and 23819689, the toll free number 1800-11-3765, and the email address. Start here before ringing any number you found on a private site, including ours.
- Guidelines for Change of Name, Department of PublicationThe whole file in one place: the notice for Part IV, the undertaking, the proforma computer typed in two copies with two witnesses, the MS Word soft copy, the matching contents certificate, the one year rule and the fee heads. Note what is absent: any CD, any demand draft, and any condition about court cases.
- Government of India Press, Minto Road, Directorate of PrintingThe page that causes the confusion, and worth reading for exactly that reason. Its list of printing work includes, under the Gazette of India, Ordinance, Acts, Resolution, Name change, religion, sex, etc. This is a printing works, not a counter for your application.
- Government of India Presses, Directorate of PrintingThe full list of presses, including the three in Delhi at Minto Road, Ring Road Mayapuri and Rashtrapati Bhawan. Useful for seeing at a glance that printing is a separate organisation from publishing.
- The Gazette of India, e-Gazette portalWhere published gazettes are downloaded, free and without certification. Open it once and you will see there is nothing to submit here, which settles the online submission question for good.
- BharatKosh, the Non-Tax Receipt PortalThe only accepted channel for the gazette fee, and where the receipt you carry to Civil Lines comes from. Demand drafts were discontinued, so any page telling you to prepare one is describing something that no longer exists.
- Ministry of Housing and Urban AffairsThe Ministry that both the Department of Publication and the Directorate of Printing report to. Useful for confirming that these are two separate subordinate offices doing two separate jobs.
- Civil Registration System, Registrar General of IndiaBirth and death registration and Registrar corrections under Section 15 of the RBD Act, 1969. Read this before anyone tells you the gazette office will fix a birth certificate.
- India Code, national repository of lawsThe Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 including Section 15, which is the provision under which a Registrar corrects a birth entry rather than the Department of Publication.
- Unique Identification Authority of IndiaAadhaar name update rules and accepted proofs, which is the first record most people change once the notification is published.
- Passport SevaRe-issue with a change of name, and the given name and surname fields whose split follows you onto every visa. Worth reading before the affidavit is drafted, not after.
- Documentadvisor: Affidavit for Name ChangeThe affidavit format this record update is built on: who can attest it, and what it should say.
- Documentadvisor: Correction to a Published GazetteWhen a published Gazette notification itself contains an error, and how to correct it.
- Documentadvisor: Name Change Newspaper AdvertisementThe newspaper notice format and cost, where the underlying change goes through a Gazette.
- Documentadvisor: Name Spelling CorrectionWhen a spelling correction alone is enough, without a full legal name change.
In short
Everything on this page in ten lines
- The gazette office in Delhi is the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, behind the Vidhan Sabha Metro station.
- It is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, headed by the Controller of Publications.
- Published numbers are 011-23817823 and 011-23819689, with a toll free line on 1800-11-3765.
- Change of name and public notice enquiries are directed to 011-23813761 and 011-23810150 as well, at extensions 221 and 222.
- It publishes; it does not print. The three Government of India Presses in this city print and do not take your application.
- Minto Road causes the confusion because its own printing list includes name change, religion and sex forms under the Gazette of India.
- Applications come from the applicant directly, in person or by post. No agent may submit, and there is no online lodging at all.
- The fee is commonly Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor and Rs 3,500 from abroad, on BharatKosh only. No demand draft, no CD.
- Publication takes about 30 to 45 days in Part IV, and nothing shortens it, including a personal visit.
- Call before you go, take the whole file and the payment receipt, and if you are outside Delhi post it and keep the tracking receipt.
It publishes. It does not print. And it will not take it from an agent.
Send us your documents on WhatsApp today. We will tell you whether your case belongs with this office at all, what the Government fee actually is, which written form of your name should stand, and what has to match across the affidavit, both newspaper notices and the proforma before the file goes in. Then you sign it and submit it yourself, at Civil Lines or by post, because the Department accepts it from nobody else.