How to Change Name Legally in Hyderabad
On 2 June 2024 Hyderabad stopped being the capital of two states and became the capital of one. Nothing moved, nothing was built, nobody redrew a boundary. A clause in an Act published in the Gazette a decade earlier simply ran out. This city is the clearest demonstration in India of what a gazette notification actually does, and this guide covers how to use one for your own name.
Name Change Procedure in Hyderabad: Gazette Office and Name Correction हैदराबाद में नाम बदलने और नाम सुधार की प्रक्रिया
Hyderabad residents have two routes. The state route: a notarised affidavit and newspaper advertisement, then an application through the Telangana e-Gazette portal, published in Part II by the Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase at Chanchalguda, on a weekly Wednesday cycle. The Central route: the same affidavit and advertisements, then a file to the Department of Publication at Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, published in Part IV in about 30 to 45 days and valid across India and abroad. If a passport or a visa is involved, you want the Central one.
What does changing your name legally in Hyderabad actually involve?
Three stages, in a fixed order, then a choice. A notarised affidavit that sets the exact new name down. A newspaper advertisement in two dailies. And a gazette notification, which is the stage that makes it official. The choice is which gazette.
A Gazette notification is a formal announcement of your name change printed in the official journal of a Government. Once it carries a date and an entry number, passport offices, UIDAI, banks, boards, employers and foreign missions treat it as the legal record of your new name. An affidavit on its own is the beginning of the change, not the end of it, and no court order is involved at any point.
Hyderabad is one of the few Indian cities where the state route is real and works. Telangana runs an online gazette at tggazette.cgg.gov.in that carries a Change of Name application and publishes personal notifications in Part II every week. That is genuinely useful. It is also not what an embassy, a foreign employer or a passport office is looking for, and in this city an enormous share of name changes are driven by exactly those things. So the honest answer is not "use the state route because it is local". It is: work out which office is going to read your notification, then choose accordingly.
At a glance
- Is there a state route
- Yes, and a working one. The TG e-Gazette at tggazette.cgg.gov.in carries a Change of Name application form
- Who runs it
- The Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase at Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, which publishes 040-24550855 and 040-24554367
- Where the state route publishes
- Part II of the Telangana Gazette, on a weekly Wednesday cycle. Alias declarations are published as well as name changes
- Where the Central file goes
- Department of Publication, Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054, by post or courier
- Which part publishes it centrally
- Part IV of the Gazette of India, valid in every state and abroad, in about 30 to 45 days
- Central Government fee
- Commonly Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor, Rs 3,500 adult from abroad, on BharatKosh only, revised each financial year
- State fee
- Shown on the portal at the application stage. Treat any figure on a private website as unverified until the portal confirms it
- Newspapers
- One Telugu and one English daily. In the old city an Urdu daily may be what people around you actually read
- Police verification
- Not required, on either route. Neither is an Annexure from the Tahsildar, whatever a widely shared page says
- Pre-2014 certificates
- Documents issued by united Andhra Pradesh before 2 June 2014 remain fully valid, as do those from the shared-capital decade
- Where to download
- egazette.gov.in for the Central Gazette, free. Hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015 and the download needs no certification
- Time
- About 2 to 3 weeks on the state route, 3 to 7 weeks on the Central route. Neither sells expedited publication
Key takeaways
- Telangana runs a genuine state route. The TG e-Gazette portal is tggazette.cgg.gov.in and it carries a Change of Name application form, which most states do not offer at all.
- The office behind it is the Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase at Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, which publishes its contact numbers, 040-24550855 and 040-24554367.
- Personal notifications appear in Part II of the Telangana Gazette on a weekly Wednesday cycle, and alias declarations are published alongside ordinary name changes.
- The Central Gazette fee is commonly Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor and Rs 3,500 for Indians abroad, paid only on bharatkosh.gov.in and revised each financial year. For the state fee, check the portal at the application stage.
- Advertisements go in two newspapers, one Telugu and one English. Urdu is widely read in the old city, and where an Urdu daily genuinely circulates around you it is a sensible regional choice.
- You do not need a police verification certificate or an Annexure from the Tahsildar. Both appear on a widely shared page and belong to no part of this process, on either route.
- This city carries two naming systems at once, Telugu initials and Urdu transliteration, so deciding one exact written form matters more here than almost anywhere.
- If a passport, a visa, a central Government employer or a bank in another state is involved, use the Central route. Part IV is what those offices recognise.
- Documents issued before 2 June 2014 came from united Andhra Pradesh and remain fully valid, as do documents from the ten years when Hyderabad was a shared capital.
- A birth certificate mistake is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, through the GHMC or whichever body registered the birth.
The city whose status ended because a clause expired
It is worth spending a moment on this, because most people live their whole lives without seeing so clean an example of what a published instrument does.
Section 5(1) of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 said that on and from the appointed day, Hyderabad shall be the common capital of the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh for such period not exceeding ten years. Section 5(2) said that after that period expired, Hyderabad shall be the capital of Telangana and there shall be a new capital for Andhra Pradesh. An Explanation recorded that the common capital included the area notified as the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation under the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955.
The Act was published in the Gazette on 1 March 2014 and came into force on the appointed day, 2 June 2014. Ten years later, on 2 June 2024, the clause ran out and Hyderabad became the capital of Telangana alone. No ceremony was needed to make it happen, and no announcement could have delayed it. A sentence published in the Gazette in March 2014 had contained a clock, and the clock finished.
And the other half of the same clause has now been settled too
Section 5(2) left Andhra Pradesh's new capital unnamed. That gap was closed in 2026. The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was passed by the Lok Sabha on 1 April 2026 and the Rajya Sabha on 2 April 2026, and received Presidential assent on 6 April 2026. It amends Section 5(2) itself, substituting words so that Amaravati shall be the new capital, and adds a second Explanation defining Amaravati by reference to the areas notified under the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014.
Two naming systems in one city, and forms cannot handle either
Most Indian cities have one naming convention that forms handle badly. Hyderabad has two, side by side, and a great many families here are affected by one or the other.
Telugu initials and family-name-first names
Telugu naming commonly places the family or house name first and the given name after, and in daily use most of it collapses into initials. K. Srinivas Rao. M. V. Lakshmi. B. Ravi Kumar. Everyone here reads these correctly. Passport forms, visa applications, foreign universities and airline systems do not: they want a given name and a surname in separate fields, and an initial is neither.
What follows is familiar to anyone from this region who has applied for a passport. One document expands the initial, another keeps it, a third expands it differently, and a fourth drops it altogether. Each version reads as a different person during verification.
Urdu and Telugu spellings of the same name
Hyderabad is also one of the few Indian cities where Urdu naming exists at real scale alongside a regional-language naming system, and older records here were written in more than one script by clerks working from speech.
So the same name reaches English in several proper forms. Mohammed, Mohammad, Muhammad and Mohd. Ahmad and Ahmed. Syed, Sayyed and Saiyad. Fatima and Fatema. Begum written as part of the name on one document and omitted on another. None of these is wrong; they are transliterations, and transliteration has never been standardised. But a bank verification system comparing two of them sees two people.
Two routes in Hyderabad: TG e-Gazette or Central Gazette
Most Indian cities have one usable route. Hyderabad has two, so the first real decision is which office is going to read your notification.
| Point | Telangana e-Gazette | Central Gazette of India |
|---|---|---|
| Run by | Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase, Chanchalguda, Hyderabad | Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054 |
| Portal | tggazette.cgg.gov.in, with a Change of Name application form | egazette.gov.in, for downloading published Part IV issues |
| Where it publishes | Part II of the Telangana Gazette, weekly Wednesday cycle | Part IV of the Gazette of India |
| Also covers | Alias declarations alongside ordinary name changes | Name changes and public notices |
| Fee | Shown on the portal at the application stage | Commonly Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor, Rs 3,500 abroad, via BharatKosh |
| Best for | Records inside Telangana, state boards, state service records | Passport, visas, central Government jobs, banks in other states, anything abroad |
Records from before 2014, and from the shared decade
Hyderabad has an unusual documentary history in living memory, and it produces genuine mismatches.
Before 2 June 2014
Anything issued came from united Andhra Pradesh. That covers most school certificates, intermediate marksheets, degree certificates and service records held by anyone over thirty.
2014 to 2024
While Hyderabad was the common capital, both state administrations operated offices in the city, so a family can hold documents from that decade issued by either state.
Since 2 June 2024
Hyderabad has been the capital of Telangana alone, and new records are issued accordingly.
All of those documents remain fully valid. The Reorganisation Act protected existing records, and a certificate naming Andhra Pradesh does not become wrong because the institution that issued it now sits on the other side of a line. The problem is only when the name itself is written differently across those eras, which happens easily when entries were made by different offices over three decades.
How do you change your name legally in Hyderabad, step by step?
The first two steps are the same whichever route you take. Step three is where they part.
Fix the exact name, then notarise the affidavit
Decide the exact spelling, spacing and initials before anything is drafted, because everything after this copies from it. If you are expanding initials, decide the full expansion and which part goes in the given name field and which in the surname field. Then have an affidavit drafted on stamp paper stating your old name, new name, father's or husband's name, full address and a clear reason, and sign it before a notary. Notaries work around the district courts and across the twin cities. Stamp paper and notary together usually cost Rs 100 to Rs 500.
Publish in two newspapers
The same notice in two dailies that genuinely circulate where you live, one Telugu and one English. In the old city an Urdu daily may be the paper people around you actually read, and where that is the case it is a sensible choice for the regional advertisement. The notice carries your old name, new name, full address, age, parentage and the affidavit date, worded exactly as the affidavit reads. Keep the complete original printed page of each, not a cutting. Two advertisements usually cost Rs 800 to Rs 4,000.
The state route, on the TG e-Gazette portal
Apply through tggazette.cgg.gov.in, which carries a Change of Name application form, uploading the affidavit, the newspaper proof, identity and address proof and photographs. The Commissionerate at Chanchalguda publishes its contact numbers, 040-24550855 and 040-24554367, if you need to confirm the current document list or fee. Personal notifications appear in Part II on a weekly Wednesday cycle, so the wait is short compared with the Central route.
The Central route, file prepared for Delhi
Your file should contain the original newspaper pages, the notice for Part IV showing parentage and residential address, a signed undertaking with old and new name, two copies of the prescribed proforma computer typed and attested with two witnesses' details, the print matter without the witness portion in MS Word, a certificate signed by you that hard and soft copy contents are the same, self-attested identity proof of applicant and each witness, two photographs, and a request letter to the Controller of Publications.
Pay: BharatKosh for Central, portal for state
The Central fee is paid only on bharatkosh.gov.in, commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult, Rs 1,700 for a minor and Rs 3,500 for Indians abroad, with Rs 250 added in the specific case of an adult adopting a name of another religion without changing religion. Revised each financial year, so confirm on deptpub.gov.in before paying. It is not refundable and no demand draft is accepted. For the state fee, the portal shows it at the application stage, so confirm there rather than trusting a private site.
Send, then download your notification
Post or courier the complete Central file to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. Applications are entertained from the applicant directly or by post, not from agents. Publication follows in Part IV about 30 to 45 days later. Hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015, so open the issue on egazette.gov.in, use Control and F to find your name, and download the whole gazette as your own copy. It needs no further certification.
What documents are required for a name change in Hyderabad?
The core file
- Notarised name change affidavit
- Aadhaar card or other Government photo identity showing the old name, self-attested
- Address proof in Hyderabad, or at the address you actually live at
- Complete original newspaper pages of both advertisements, dates visible
- Prescribed proforma in two copies, computer typed, with two witnesses' details and their identity proofs
- Two passport size photographs
- Soft copy of the print matter in MS Word, without the witness portion
- Certificate signed by you that hard copy and soft copy contents are the same
- Request letter addressed to the Controller of Publications
Depending on your case
- Marriage certificate, if the change follows a marriage
- Divorce decree, if the change follows a divorce
- Birth certificate of the child, if the applicant is a minor
- Deed attested by the Indian Embassy or High Commission, if applying from abroad
- Departmental deed, if you are a Central Government employee, under MHA O.M. No. 190016/1/87-Estt.(A) dated 12 March 1987
What you do not need
- A police verification certificate. No route asks for one
- An Annexure or certificate from the Tahsildar. Same
- A court order, or a deed poll, which is British procedure India does not use
- A demand draft, and certainly not one payable to a Controller of Publications in Hyderabad
- A compact disc. The soft copy is a Word file
- Any trip to Delhi, or to Amaravati or Vijayawada for a pre-2014 certificate
What does a name change cost in Hyderabad?
Government charges and service charges are two different things, and you are entitled to see them separated.
| Expense | Typical amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stamp paper and notary | Rs 100 to Rs 500 | Notaries around the district courts and across the twin cities |
| Two newspaper advertisements | Rs 800 to Rs 4,000 | One Telugu and one English, or an Urdu daily where it circulates locally |
| Telangana e-Gazette fee | Shown on the portal at the application stage | Confirm there rather than trusting a private site's figure. We do not quote one |
| Central Gazette, adult | Commonly Rs 1,100 | BharatKosh only, revised each financial year, not refundable |
| Central Gazette, minor | Commonly Rs 1,700 | BharatKosh only |
| Central Gazette, Indians abroad | Commonly Rs 3,500 adult, Rs 5,100 minor | Embassy attestation and courier are separate and vary considerably |
| Religion case surcharge | Rs 250 added, making Rs 1,350 | Only where an adult adopts a name of another religion without changing religion, with an undertaking |
| Realistic self-done total | Rs 1,500 to Rs 6,000 | Depending on which route and which newspapers |
On the Rs 999 packages
The Central Government fee alone is commonly Rs 1,100, so a Rs 999 all-inclusive Central Gazette package cannot include it.
How long does each route take?
The state route is genuinely quicker. It is also not the one an embassy reads, which is the trade-off.
Affidavit and notary
Usually the same day, on either route.
Newspaper publication
2 to 7 days, depending on the booking schedule you are given.
State route
Online application, then the weekly Wednesday Part II cycle.
Central route
2 to 4 days to prepare and send, then 30 to 45 days for publication in Part IV.
So the state route can finish in around two to three weeks and the Central route in three to seven.
Which areas of Hyderabad do we cover?
The twin cities and the district, and Telangana beyond them. Both routes run online and by post, so your locality changes nothing.
What do the name change terms actually mean?
The words that appear on every name change website, in language people actually use.
- Gazette notification
- A formal announcement printed in the official journal of a Government. For a name change it is what Aadhaar, PAN, passport offices, banks, boards and employers accept as legal proof. It is not a court order and needs no lawyer.
- Gazette of India
- The Central Government's official journal, published by the Department of Publication. A notification here is valid in every state and abroad, which is why visa-driven cases use it.
- Part IV
- The section of the Gazette of India carrying notices from private people rather than from Government. Part IV belongs to the Central Gazette only; the Telangana Gazette has its own parts.
- Telangana Gazette, Part II
- The part of the state gazette carrying personal notifications, including name changes and alias declarations, published on a weekly Wednesday cycle.
- TG e-Gazette
- The Telangana online gazette at tggazette.cgg.gov.in, which carries a Change of Name application form. Most states have no such facility at all.
- Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase
- The Telangana office at Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, that runs the state gazette. It publishes the numbers 040-24550855 and 040-24554367.
- Department of Publication
- The Central Gazette office, at Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054, a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. There is exactly one, and it is not in Hyderabad.
- Controller of Publications
- The officer heading that Department, to whom your request letter is addressed. This officer sits in Delhi, so a demand draft payable to a Controller of Publications in Hyderabad is payable to nobody.
- Alias declaration
- A published declaration that you are known by two names, rather than a change replacing one with the other. Telangana's Part II carries these. Decide which you actually want before applying.
- Transliteration
- Writing a name from one script into another. It is the ordinary source of variation in this city, because an Urdu or Telugu name written in roman letters can come out in more than one correct form, and no standard governs which.
- Expansion of initials
- Writing out in full what an initial stands for. Since a passport form needs a given name and a surname in separate fields, the expansion you declare becomes the name on every visa issued afterwards.
- Affidavit
- A written statement you swear is true, signed before a notary. It states the old name, the new name, parentage, address and the reason for the change. It is the start of the process, not the finish.
- Proforma
- The prescribed Central application format, computer typed and not handwritten, in duplicate, signed and attested, with two witnesses whose self-attested identity proofs are enclosed.
- Matching-contents certificate
- A short certificate signed by you declaring that the contents of the hard copy and the soft copy are the same. It is a listed Central requirement, not an optional extra.
- BharatKosh
- The Non-Tax Receipt Portal at bharatkosh.gov.in, the only accepted channel for the Central gazette fee. Demand drafts were discontinued.
- Registrar correction
- A correction to a birth or death record under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, through the GHMC or whichever body registered it. Not a gazette matter.
What do you update after the gazette, and in what order?
The gazette is the middle of the journey. Update in this order, because each office asks for the one before it, and on a visa timeline doing it out of order means repeating steps.
| Order | Record | What to take, and why it comes here |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aadhaar | At an enrolment centre with the gazette copy, the affidavit and identity proof. Almost everything downstream verifies against Aadhaar |
| 2 | PAN card | Correction application with the gazette attached. Banks and employers check PAN against Aadhaar |
| 3 | Bank accounts | Branch request with the gazette. Doing this before Aadhaar and PAN agree creates a mismatch that is slow to unpick |
| 4 | Passport | A re-issue with change of name. Check carefully how the given name and surname fields are filled, because every visa issued afterwards copies exactly that |
| 5 | Voter ID and driving licence | Both accept the gazette. The licence goes through the transport office that issued it |
| 6 | EPFO or UAN and insurance | Employer-linked records, which is often where a mismatch was first noticed |
| 7 | Board, intermediate and university records | Including pre-2014 certificates issued under united Andhra Pradesh. Each runs its own correction process |
| 8 | Employer, visa, property and business records | Against the new passport, not against the gazette alone, which is why the passport comes before these |
What will a gazette notification not do for you?
This is where most disappointment comes from, so it is worth being blunt.
A gazette notification is a dated public record of your declaration. It is strong evidence and most institutions accept it. What it does not do is silently rewrite anything. Every one of these still runs its own process, with the gazette as the proof you bring:
SSC, Intermediate and university certificates
A spelling on an SSC or Intermediate certificate that does not match the Aadhaar is the most common starting point in this city, particularly for certificates issued before 2014 under united Andhra Pradesh. The board runs its own correction process and decides the outcome. Ask the board which gazette it accepts before choosing a route.
Birth and death certificates
A Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, through the body that registered it, which within the city is the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. A gazette does not touch it.
Passport, visa and employer records
The passport is a re-issue application in its own right, and visa and employer records follow the passport rather than the gazette. That is why the order in the table above matters on a visa timeline.
Aadhaar, PAN, bank and service book
Each has its own update process and its own form. The gazette is what you produce at each one, and each takes its own time.
My birth certificate has a mistake. Do I need a gazette?
Usually not. If the error is in the birth certificate itself, a spelling wrong at registration or a detail entered incorrectly, that is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969. You apply to the body that registered the birth, which within the city is the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, and elsewhere the relevant municipal body. The national portal is crsorgi.gov.in. A gazette notification can support that file; it cannot replace it.
A gazette notification is the right instrument for something different: when the birth certificate is correct as registered, and you now want to be known by a different name. That is a change rather than a correction.
Visas, aliases, boards, marriage and minors
IT, pharma and visa-driven name changes
This is the largest single category in this city. A name mismatch that never mattered in India surfaces during an employment background check, a work visa application or an international transfer, because a degree certificate, a PAN, a passport and an HR record each carry a slightly different version of the same name.
Alias declarations
Telangana's Part II publishes alias declarations as well as ordinary name changes, which is useful if you are known by two names and need both on record rather than replacing one with the other. Decide before you apply whether you want a change or an alias, because they are different declarations and switching afterwards means starting again. If you are going the Central route with an alias, confirm the current fee heads on deptpub.gov.in before paying, since they are revised each financial year.
Board and university records
A spelling on an SSC or Intermediate certificate that does not match the Aadhaar is a very common starting point, particularly for certificates issued before 2014 under united Andhra Pradesh. The board runs its own correction process and decides the outcome; the gazette supports that application rather than replacing it. Ask the board which gazette it accepts before choosing a route, because that answer alone can decide the question for you.
Name change after marriage
The same stages apply, with the marriage certificate attached. If you keep using your existing name and nothing on paper changes, you do not need a gazette at all.
Minors
A parent or legal guardian applies on the child's behalf, swearing the affidavit and attaching the child's birth certificate. On the Central route the minor fee applies, commonly Rs 1,700 with the usual revision caveat, and Rs 5,100 for a minor abroad. Both parents signing avoids objections later.
Applying from abroad
Indians living outside India submit a deed attested by the Indian Embassy or High Commission of the country they are in, and the Central fee is commonly Rs 3,500 for an adult. Attestation and international courier are separate costs and vary a great deal, so budget them apart from the Government fee.
Are you a Government employee?
Then you have a step most guides leave out. Central Government employees follow Ministry of Home Affairs Office Memorandum No. 190016/1/87-Estt.(A) dated 12 March 1987: a deed of change of name is executed and routed through your own department, so the service book is updated alongside the gazette rather than years behind it. State Government employees in Telangana should inform their establishment section in writing as well, on the same reasoning.
Why do name change applications get rejected in Hyderabad?
Almost always for small, preventable reasons. On a visa timeline each one is expensive, so they are worth reading twice.
Expanding an initial two different ways
One expansion on the affidavit and another in the advertisement or on the form. Settle the full expansion in writing first, including which part is the given name and which the surname.
Choosing a transliteration by default
Picking between Mohammed, Mohammad and Mohd by accident rather than decision, and then using two of them across the same file. Check what your board certificate and passport already carry, decide once.
Chasing paperwork nobody asked for
A police verification certificate or a Tahsildar's Annexure. No gazette route asks for either, on either side.
Following a guide written for another state
Pages addressed to residents of Visakhapatnam or Vijayawada are written for Andhra Pradesh, not Telangana. Check who a page thinks it is talking to before you follow it.
Choosing the state route for a passport case
Fast and local is the wrong optimisation when an embassy is going to read the notification. Then you repeat the whole thing centrally, having lost the weeks.
Applying for a change when you wanted an alias
Or the reverse. They are different declarations, and switching afterwards means starting again from the affidavit.
A demand draft for the Central fee
The draft route is closed. Payment is on bharatkosh.gov.in only, and never to a Controller of Publications in Hyderabad, because that officer is in Delhi.
Documents older than one year
The Department expects recent supporting papers for the Central file, and documents once submitted are not returned, so never send an original you will need again.
Should you do this yourself, or use a service?
Both routes are doable alone, and the Telangana portal makes the state one genuinely convenient. Plenty of people in this city do it themselves and it works.
The judgement worth paying for sits before the paperwork: which route your case actually needs, whether you want a change or an alias, and above all how your name should be written, because in this city that is a real decision between several legitimate forms rather than a formality. That decision follows you onto a passport and every visa after it. On the Central route one mismatch means the file comes back after weeks with the fee gone, which on a visa timeline is expensive.
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A name change means handing your identity documents to someone you have never met. We take that seriously, and we would rather be slow and correct than fast and wrong.
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We work from the offices' own pages
Not from a search result. The Central file contents and fee heads here come from the Department of Publication's own guidelines, and the state route details from the Telangana e-Gazette portal itself.
We choose the route for the destination
If an embassy, a foreign employer or a passport office is going to read your notification, we say so and use the Central route, rather than selling you the faster one and letting you find out later.
We settle the exact form first
Initials expanded or kept, transliteration chosen, given name and surname fields decided. Sent to you letter by letter, with your written confirmation before anything is drafted.
We tell you what to ignore
No police verification, no Tahsildar's Annexure, no Controller of Publications in Hyderabad, no compact disc, no expedited publication, no Rs 999 package and no demand draft.
We tell you when you do not need us
If your case is a plain Registrar correction at the GHMC, or a board correction the gazette will not perform anyway, we say so before you spend anything.
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The questions Hyderabad applicants search for most
Does Telangana have its own gazette route?
Yes, and a working one. The TG e-Gazette portal at tggazette.cgg.gov.in carries a Change of Name application form, run by the Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase at Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, with personal notifications published in Part II on a weekly Wednesday cycle. Most states have no such facility at all.
Where is the gazette office in Hyderabad?
The Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase at Chanchalguda, which publishes the numbers 040-24550855 and 040-24554367. There is no Central Gazette office in Hyderabad; that one is at Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054.
Do I need police verification for a name change?
No. Neither the Telangana route nor the Central route requires a police verification certificate or an Annexure from the Tahsildar, despite what one widely shared page says. If a provider tells you otherwise, they have not done a Telangana file correctly.
How do I expand my initials for a passport?
Decide the exact expanded form first, including which part goes in the given name field and which in the surname field, declare it through a gazette notification, then update Aadhaar and apply for the passport re-issue in that form. Whatever the passport carries is what every visa issued afterwards will copy, so this is the decision to take slowly.
My certificates are from united Andhra Pradesh. Are they valid?
Yes, fully. Documents from before 2 June 2014, and from the decade when Hyderabad was a shared capital, remain valid. A Central Gazette notification is valid in both states, so one application covers records on either side and nobody needs to travel to Amaravati or Vijayawada.
Which route should I use if I am applying for a work visa?
The Central route. Part IV of the Gazette of India is what embassies, foreign employers and passport offices recognise. The state route is faster and entirely genuine, but it is built for records inside Telangana, and choosing it for a visa case usually means doing the whole thing again centrally.
People also search for
- TG e-Gazette name change: the Telangana state route, applied for on tggazette.cgg.gov.in and published in Part II on a weekly Wednesday cycle.
- Chanchalguda printing press gazette: the Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase, which runs the state gazette and publishes its contact numbers on the portal.
- Expand initials for passport Hyderabad: declare the exact expanded form in the gazette, then update Aadhaar and apply for the re-issue. Decide the expansion before anything is drafted, because it becomes permanent.
- Alias declaration gazette Telangana: Part II publishes alias declarations as well as name changes, which matters if you need both names on record rather than replacing one.
- Gazette office in Hyderabad for name change: the state office is at Chanchalguda. The Central Gazette office is in Delhi and takes the file by post.
- Name change agent in Hyderabad: the Central Gazette accepts applications only from applicants directly or by post, so what you need is a service that prepares, checks and tracks your file, which you sign and send.
Start your Hyderabad name change today
Tell us your old name, every written form of it that appears across your documents, the exact new name you want, and what is driving the change: a passport, a work visa, a board correction or a state record. We will tell you which route your case needs, settle the spelling and the initials expansion with you in writing, name the Telugu, English or Urdu dailies to book, and give you the total cost and the timeline before you pay anything. If it is a job you can do yourself on the portal, we will say so.
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Frequently asked questions on changing your name in Hyderabad
The questions we are asked on the phone every day.
Which route should I use, state or Central?
Where do I apply for the state route?
What does the state route cost?
Do I need a police verification or a Tahsildar's certificate?
Where is the gazette office in Hyderabad?
Which newspapers should I use?
My name is all initials. How do I handle a passport?
My name is spelled Mohammed on one document and Mohd on another. Which is right?
Can I declare an alias instead of changing my name?
My certificates were issued by united Andhra Pradesh before 2014. Are they valid?
Do I need to go to Amaravati or Vijayawada for a pre-2014 certificate?
How do I pay the Central fee?
What does a name change cost on the Central route?
Are the Rs 999 offers real?
Will I get a printed gazette by post?
Can I pay extra to publish faster?
Do I need a compact disc for the Central file?
Can a gazette alone correct my SSC or Intermediate certificate?
I am on a visa timeline. What order should I follow?
My birth certificate has a mistake. Do I need a gazette?
I am a Government employee. Anything extra?
Where can you verify all of this yourself?
Every fact above can be checked at these sources. Please do check them, and please type the addresses rather than clicking a search result.
- Telangana e-GazetteThe state route. The portal carries the Change of Name application form, publishes personal notifications in Part II on a weekly Wednesday cycle alongside extraordinary issues, and is run by the Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase at Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, which publishes the numbers 040-24550855 and 040-24554367. The state fee is shown here at the application stage.
- Department of Publication, Government of IndiaThe Central Gazette office. Its homepage gives the Civil Lines address behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, names the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as its parent, and identifies the Controller of Publications as its head. There is exactly one such officer, and not one in Hyderabad.
- Guidelines for Change of Name, Department of PublicationThe notice for Part IV, the undertaking, the proforma in two typed copies with two witnesses, the print matter in MS Word without the witness portion, the certificate that hard and soft copies are the same, the one year rule, the non-return of documents, the fee heads, and the sentence that an application either submitted personally or sent by post or courier only will be entertained, with agents and advocates named as impermissible channels. No police verification appears anywhere in it.
- India Code, national repository of lawsThe Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, including Section 5 and its Explanation, and the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, including Section 15.
- PRS Legislative Research, Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026The Bill as introduced, with the text substituting words in Section 5(2) so that Amaravati shall be the new capital, and the added Explanation referring to the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014. Also the dates of introduction and passage.
- The Gazette of India, e-Gazette portalSearch and download published Part IV notifications free. Hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015. It is an archive, not an application portal, and the download needs no certification.
- BharatKosh, the Non-Tax Receipt PortalThe only accepted channel for the Central gazette fee. Demand drafts and direct transfers were discontinued.
- Ministry of Housing and Urban AffairsThe parent ministry of the Department of Publication. Not the Ministry of Home Affairs, which several pages in this niche name by mistake.
- Ministry of Home AffairsThe source of Office Memorandum No. 190016/1/87-Estt.(A) dated 12 March 1987, under which a Central Government employee executes a deed through the department so the service book is updated alongside the gazette.
- Government of TelanganaThe state portal, for departments, district links and official notifications, including the Commissionerate that runs the state gazette.
- Greater Hyderabad Municipal CorporationRegisters births and deaths within the city, so a Section 15 correction for a Hyderabad birth is applied for here. The GHMC area is also what the Reorganisation Act's Explanation used to define the common capital.
- Civil Registration System, Registrar General of IndiaThe national framework for birth and death registration and for Registrar corrections under Section 15.
- Unique Identification Authority of IndiaAadhaar name update rules and accepted proofs, which is the first record to change after publication.
- Passport SevaRe-issue with a change of name, and how the given name and surname fields are filled. This is where an expanded initial becomes permanent, because every visa afterwards copies it.
The short version
Everything on this page in ten lines
- Hyderabad has two real routes. The state one publishes in Part II of the Telangana Gazette weekly on Wednesdays; the Central one publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India in 30 to 45 days.
- The state route is applied for on tggazette.cgg.gov.in, run by the Commissionerate of Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase at Chanchalguda, on 040-24550855 and 040-24554367.
- If a passport, a visa, a central Government employer or a bank in another state will read the notification, use the Central route. That is most of this city's cases.
- Three stages either way: notarised affidavit, two newspaper notices in a Telugu and an English daily, then the application or the file. An Urdu daily is a sensible regional choice in the old city.
- Central fee commonly Rs 1,100 adult and Rs 1,700 minor on bharatkosh.gov.in only, revised each financial year, never refundable. For the state fee, the portal shows it at the application stage.
- No police verification and no Tahsildar's Annexure are required on either route, whatever a widely shared page says.
- This city carries two naming systems at once, Telugu initials and Urdu transliteration. Decide one exact written form, and if you are expanding initials decide the full expansion, because the passport makes it permanent.
- Documents from before 2 June 2014 came from united Andhra Pradesh and remain fully valid, as do documents from the shared-capital decade. Part IV covers both sides.
- Section 5 of the Reorganisation Act gave Hyderabad ten years as common capital and the clock finished on 2 June 2024. In April 2026 the same section was amended so that Amaravati is Andhra Pradesh's capital.
- A birth certificate error is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the RBD Act, 1969, through the GHMC or whichever body registered the birth.
Decide the spelling, then pick the right route
Send us your documents on WhatsApp today. We will tell you which gazette your case actually needs, settle the exact written form with you in writing including how the initials are expanded and which field each part goes in, name the Telugu, English or Urdu dailies to book, and give you the total cost and the timeline before you pay anything. Across Hitec City, Gachibowli, Banjara Hills, Secunderabad, the old city and every part of Telangana.