Name Change Procedure in Delhi
Delhi is the only city in India where the gazette office is a Metro ride away, and almost every guide tells you not to bother going. One page quotes the fee as Rs 520 and Rs 523 in the same article. Another publishes a Mumbai address under the heading "Gazette Office Address in Delhi". This page gives you the real process, from the Department's own published address to what it actually costs.
Name Change Procedure in Delhi | How to Change Name in Delhi | Gazette Notification in Delhi
To change your name in Delhi, make a notarised affidavit, publish the change in two newspapers, one Hindi and one English, then submit the prescribed file to the Department of Publication at Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054, with the fee paid through BharatKosh. You can hand it in yourself, because the Department accepts applications from the applicant directly. Publication in Part IV of the Gazette of India follows in about 30 to 45 days.
What does the name change procedure in Delhi involve?
Three careful stages, and one advantage nobody else in India has. The stages are the same everywhere: affidavit, newspaper notices, then the file. The advantage is that the office is here. Every other guide in this niche has to reassure readers that distance costs them nothing, because for a reader in Guwahati or Kochi it genuinely does. In Delhi that advice throws away the one thing you have that nobody else does.
A Gazette notification is a formal announcement of your name change printed in the official journal of the Government of India. Once it carries a date and a Part IV entry, passport offices, UIDAI, banks, boards, PSUs and employers treat it as the legal record of your new name. An affidavit on its own is the start of the change, not the finish.
At a glance
- The gazette office
- Department of Publication, Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054
- Whose office it is
- A subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, headed by the Controller of Publications
- Published contacts
- 011-23817640 at the main office, 011-23817823 and 011-23819689, toll free 1800-11-3765, and acop-dep@nic.in
- Counter timings
- The Department does not publish public dealing hours on its own site. Ring before you travel
- Which gazette
- Part IV of the Gazette of India. Valid nationwide, not merely in Delhi
- Can you submit it yourself
- Yes. Personally, or by post or courier. No other channel, and that includes agents
- Newspapers
- Two notices, one Hindi daily and one English daily. The widest choice in the country, so compare quotes
- Government fee
- Commonly Rs 1,100 adult and Rs 1,700 minor, on BharatKosh only, revised each financial year
- Online application
- There is none. The fee is paid online; the signed file goes in physically
- Where to download
- egazette.gov.in, free. Hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015
Key takeaways
- The gazette office is here. The Department's own website states that it is located at Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi-110054, is a subordinate office of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and is headed by the Controller of Publications.
- You can submit the file in person. Applications are entertained from the applicant directly, personally or by post or courier, and for a Delhi resident walking in is the safest option.
- The Government fee is commonly Rs 1,100 for adults and Rs 1,700 for minors, on bharatkosh.gov.in only. If a page tells you the Delhi gazette charge is around Rs 520, it is wrong, and one such page contradicts itself within a few paragraphs.
- There is no online application portal for the Central Gazette. egazette.gov.in is where published issues are downloaded, not where files are submitted.
- The Department does not publish counter timings on its own site, so ring first. Be wary of pages quoting shop-style hours, especially ones that give two different sets in the same article.
- Demand drafts are no longer accepted, whatever older pages and even some current ones still say. Nor is a CD of your documents required.
- The whole job takes 3 to 7 weeks, the shortest realistic timeline in India because you lose no days to post, and there is no expedited or tatkal option.
- A birth certificate mistake is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, and in Delhi that means the MCD, the NDMC or the Delhi Cantonment Board depending on where the birth was registered.
Did Delhi's own name change need a gazette notification?
Yes. And it is worth noticing, because it happened a few kilometres from the office you are about to send your file to.
Until the early 1990s this was the Union Territory of Delhi. The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB and redesignated it as the National Capital Territory of Delhi, giving it a Legislative Assembly and a Council of Ministers while public order, police and land stayed with the Union. The amendment did not take effect the day it was passed. It came into force on 1 February 1992.
The city's earlier naming worked the same way. On 12 December 1911, at the Delhi Durbar, George V declared that the capital would move from Calcutta to Delhi. The new capital was inaugurated on 13 February 1931 by Viceroy Irwin. Each stage was a decision, taken and then recorded.
Where exactly is the gazette office in Delhi?
This is the one city where the answer is a real address rather than a redirection, so here it is from the Department's own website.
The Department of Publication's homepage states it plainly: "The Department of Publication, located at Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi-110054, is a subordinate office of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. This Department is headed by the Controller of Publications and is assisted by Assistant Controller (Admn.), Assistant Controller (Business) & Financial Officer." That is the office. There is exactly one of it, and your request letter is addressed to the Controller of Publications. Full contact details are on our gazette office in Delhi page.
| Detail | What the Department says |
|---|---|
| Name | Department of Publication |
| Location | Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054 |
| Parent ministry | A subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India |
| Headed by | The Controller of Publications |
| Assisted by | Assistant Controller (Admn.), Assistant Controller (Business) and a Financial Officer |
| Published numbers | 011-23817640 at the main office, plus 011-23817823 and 011-23819689, toll free 1800-11-3765, email acop-dep@nic.in |
| Who your letter addresses | The Controller of Publications, at that address |
| Where your notification appears | Part IV of the Gazette of India, in weekly Saturday dated issues |
| Where you download it | egazette.gov.in, free, no certification needed |
Watch: the gazette office in Delhi and its address
Gazette Office in Delhi | Address of Gazette Office Delhi
A useful distinction: sale counters are not the gazette office
The Department also runs sale counters, and knowing this saves you from a specific piece of misinformation. Besides the main office at Civil Lines, it lists counters at Kitab Mahal, Baba Kharg Singh Marg, at the Delhi High Court, and outside Delhi at Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore. Those exist to sell Government publications. They are not where a change of name file is submitted. The one address that matters is on our gazette office page.
Should I hand the file in myself, or post it?
Either is allowed. But almost every service page written for Delhi sells the same line, and in this city it is the wrong advice.
That line is you do not need to visit anywhere. For a reader in Guwahati or Kochi it is genuinely reassuring, because the file has to travel and post is the sensible option. For a reader in Delhi it discards the one advantage they have. The Department's published guidelines say an application either submitted personally or sent by Post or Courier only will be entertained. The first half of that sentence is yours to use.
The biggest single risk in this process is not the rules. It is a file that arrives incomplete, or does not arrive at all, discovered a month later when nothing has been published and the fee is already spent and non-refundable. Posting is fine. Handing it over is better:
What walking in actually buys you
- Nothing is lost in transit. The file is in the Department's hands, not a courier's
- Obvious gaps surface immediately. A missing photograph, an unsigned proforma, or a cutting where a full newspaper page was required is far better discovered while you are standing there
- You keep the acknowledgement. Dated proof of submission in your own hand is worth the morning
- You learn what the counter actually wants. Fifteen minutes there teaches you more than a week of reading pages that cannot agree on the fee
How to make the one trip count
- Ring first and confirm the counter is open, on 011-23817640 or the numbers above
- Pay on BharatKosh before you go and carry the receipt
- Carry the complete original newspaper pages of both advertisements, not cuttings
- Carry the proforma typed in duplicate, signed, with both witnesses' identity proofs
- Carry the soft copy of the notice text and the signed matching-contents certificate
- Carry a spare set of self-attested copies. A return trip for one sheet defeats the purpose
Do I need the Delhi Gazette or the Gazette of India?
People ask this constantly, partly because service pages talk loosely about a "Delhi Gazette name change" as though it were a separate product.
What you need for a personal name change is a notification in Part IV of the Gazette of India, published by the Department of Publication. That is what a passport office, UIDAI, a bank, a central Government employer, a PSU, a university and a foreign authority all recognise, and it is valid everywhere in India, not merely in Delhi.
Five claims about Delhi that are wrong
Delhi is the highest volume query in this niche and the results are unusually bad. Each of these is on a page ranking today.
"The gazette charge is Rs 520" and "pay Rs 523"
Both figures appear on the same page, a few paragraphs apart, for the same charge. Neither matches the commonly applicable Rs 1,100. A page that cannot hold one number steady across a single article is not a source for what you owe the Government.
A Mumbai address under a Delhi heading
A page titled Gazette Office Address in Delhi gives an address in Ghatkopar West, Mumbai 400086, with a Mumbai phone number. The Department's real Delhi address is at Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station.
Bangalore testimonials on a Delhi page
A third page about the Delhi gazette office carries reviews describing one of the best advertising company in Bangalore. Worth noting: the Mumbai address on one page and the praised firm on the other share a name, which suggests a shared source rather than three independent mistakes.
"Fill the form on the Delhi Government gazette website"
There is no online application workflow for the Central Gazette. Payment is online, the download is online, and the signed file is physical. Two different pages describe portals and forms that do not exist for this purpose.
"Demand draft and a compact disc"
Still listed on at least one otherwise reasonable page. The DD route is closed; payment is on BharatKosh. What the Department wants alongside the hard copies is the soft copy of the notice text in Word, not a disc of all your documents.
Two different sets of opening hours
One page gives 10:30 AM to 6:30 PM in one place and a different Monday to Saturday schedule in another. The Department publishes no public dealing hours on its own site, so the honest instruction is to ring and ask, which is what we tell you to do.
Step by step name change procedure in Delhi
Five stages, and the first one is a decision rather than a form.
Fix the exact name, then the affidavit
Spelling, spacing and initials settled against your passport and board certificate first.
Two newspaper notices
One Hindi daily and one English daily. The widest choice in India, so compare quotes.
File, fee, then the counter
Prescribed proforma, fee on BharatKosh, then Civil Lines in person or by post.
Step 1: fix the exact name, then get the affidavit
Decide the exact spelling, spacing and initials of your new name before anything is drafted, because everything after this copies from it. Then get an affidavit drafted on stamp paper stating your old name, your new name, your father's or husband's name, your full address in Delhi and a clear reason for the change, and swear it before a notary or oath commissioner. Stamp paper and notary together usually cost Rs 100 to Rs 500. Notaries and oath commissioners sit around every district court complex, and SDM offices across the districts are the usual reference point people look for.
Step 2: publish in two newspapers, one Hindi and one English
Publish the same notice in two dailies that circulate in Delhi, one Hindi and one English. The choice here is wider than anywhere else in the country, so take more than one quote; rates for the same few lines vary considerably. The notice must carry your old name, new name, full address, age, father's or husband's name and the affidavit date, worded exactly as the affidavit reads. Keep the complete original printed page of each newspaper, not a cutting, with the date clearly visible. Two notices usually cost Rs 800 to Rs 4,000.
Step 3: prepare the file for the Department of Publication
Per the Department's published guidelines your file should contain:
- The original newspaper pages carrying your notices
- A signed undertaking showing your old and new name with father's or husband's name and residential address, declaring the facts are true
- Two copies of the prescribed proforma, computer typed and not handwritten, signed and attested, with the details of two witnesses
- A soft copy of the notice text in MS Word, without the witness portion. For an adult applicant the guidelines say to type the old name in place of the signature; for a minor, the guardian's name
- A certificate signed by you declaring that the hard copy and soft copy contents are similar
- Self-attested photocopy of identity proof of the applicant and each witness
- Two self-attested passport size photographs
- A request letter to the Controller of Publications, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, along with the requisite fee
Keep every supporting document recent. The guidelines state that the documents must not be older than one year.
Step 4: pay the fee through BharatKosh only
The fee is paid only through bharatkosh.gov.in, the Government's Non-Tax Receipt Portal. It is commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult and Rs 1,700 for a minor resident in India. Where an adult adopts a name of another religion without changing religion the published guidelines show Rs 1,100 plus Rs 250, that is Rs 1,350. For applicants living abroad the guidelines put it at Rs 3,500 for an adult and Rs 5,100 for a minor. The Department revises these amounts, so confirm the current fee on deptpub.gov.in before paying. It is non-refundable, and no demand draft is involved.
Step 5: submit, then download your notification
Submit the complete file at the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, in person on a working day, or by post or courier. Your notification then appears in Part IV of the Gazette of India, in weekly Saturday dated issues, about 30 to 45 days later. Since hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015, you open the relevant issue on egazette.gov.in, search the PDF for your old or new name, and download the whole gazette as your own copy. It needs no further certification, and nobody should charge you to fetch a public record.
Watch: how the gazette notification is made, and what the file needs
How to Make Gazette Notification in Delhi दिल्ली में गजट नोटिफिकेशन कैसे बनवाएं
Documents Required for Name Change in Delhi दिल्ली में नाम परिवर्तन के लिए आवश्यक दस्तावेज़
What documents are required for a name change in Delhi?
One core list, plus what your case may add, plus what you can safely ignore.
The core file
- Notarised name change affidavit, hard copy
- Aadhaar or other Government photo identity showing the old name, self-attested
- Address proof in Delhi: electricity bill, water bill, rent agreement or similar
- Complete original newspaper pages of both notices, dates clearly visible
- Prescribed proforma, two copies, computer typed, with two witnesses' details and their identity proofs
- Two passport size photographs, self-attested
- Soft copy of the notice text in MS Word, with the matching-contents certificate signed by you
- Request letter to the Controller of Publications with the fee receipt
What your case may add
- Marriage certificate, if the change follows a marriage
- Divorce decree, if the change follows a divorce
- Birth certificate of the child and the parent's identity proof, where the applicant is a minor
- Deed attested by the Indian Embassy or Consulate, if you apply 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
- Where aliases are being published, expect an additional charge per alias name
Watch: changing a surname rather than a full name
How to Change Surname in Delhi सर नेम कैसे चेंज करें
What does a name change in Delhi really cost?
Short answer: the Government fee is commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult, and a realistic all-in total is Rs 2,000 to Rs 6,000.
| Item | Typical amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stamp paper and notary | Rs 100 to Rs 500 | Notaries and oath commissioners around every district court complex. |
| Two newspaper notices | Rs 800 to Rs 4,000 | The widest choice of dailies in the country. Compare quotes; the same few lines vary a lot. |
| Government fee, adult in India | Commonly Rs 1,100 | On BharatKosh only, revised each financial year, non-refundable. |
| Government fee, minor in India | Commonly Rs 1,700 | Applies to anyone under 18. Also on BharatKosh. |
| Religion related addition | Rs 250, so Rs 1,350 | Where an adult adopts a name of another religion without changing religion, per the published guidelines. |
| Applying from abroad | Rs 3,500 adult, Rs 5,100 minor | Per the published guidelines, plus embassy or consulate attestation and courier. |
| Travel to Civil Lines | Metro fare | Cheaper than a lost file, and you come away with the acknowledgement. |
| Speed post, if you send it | Rs 50 to Rs 200 | Perfectly acceptable. It just carries the transit risk a counter visit removes. |
| Gazette PDF retrieval | Free | Published issues download free from egazette.gov.in. Nobody should charge you for a public record. |
| Realistic self-done total | Rs 2,000 to Rs 6,000 | All stages included, depending on which newspapers you choose. |
How long does a name change take in Delhi?
Short answer: 3 to 7 weeks end to end, which is the shortest realistic timeline available anywhere in India.
Day 1
The exact name fixed in writing and checked against the passport and board certificate, then the affidavit drafted and sworn. Usually same day in Delhi.
Day 2 to 8
Notices booked in one Hindi and one English daily after comparing quotes. Publication follows each paper's schedule, so allow 2 to 7 days.
Day 8 to 11
File prepared: proforma typed in duplicate, witnesses signed, soft copy and certificate ready, fee paid on BharatKosh.
Then 30 to 45 days
Submitted the same morning at Civil Lines, then publication in Part IV. No days lost to post in either direction.
Plan for 3 to 7 weeks from the first phone call to a notification you can download. This is the fastest any Indian city can realistically be, precisely because you lose no days to the post in either direction. One page claims publication takes at least two months; that is at the pessimistic end.
Which parts of Delhi do we serve?
All eleven districts. This is home ground: we are based in the Delhi and Faridabad NCR, and Civil Lines is a short run from most of the city.
Call 9540005002, WhatsApp 9540005064, or write to support@documentadvisor.in. Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 6 PM. For the all-India process, see our complete name change service guide.
The rest of the NCR
Same office, same file. Only the journey changes.
What do the gazette 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, PSUs and employers accept as legal proof. It is not a court order and needs no lawyer.
- 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 of it.
- Controller of Publications
- The officer heading the Department, assisted by an Assistant Controller (Administration), an Assistant Controller (Business) and a Financial Officer. Your request letter is addressed to this officer.
- 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; a state gazette has its own parts.
- Sale counter
- A counter that sells Government publications, including ones at Kitab Mahal and the Delhi High Court and outside Delhi. Useful to know about, but not where a change of name file is submitted.
- Affidavit
- A written statement you swear is true, signed before a notary or oath commissioner. 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.
- Oath commissioner
- An advocate appointed to administer oaths and attest affidavits, found around the district court complexes. For this purpose an affidavit sworn before a notary or an oath commissioner serves the same function.
- Proforma
- The prescribed application format the Department requires, computer typed in duplicate and signed by you and two witnesses, whose self-attested identity proofs are enclosed with the file.
- Matching-contents certificate
- A short certificate signed by you declaring that the contents of the hard copy and the soft copy are similar. It is a listed requirement, not an optional extra.
- Personal submission
- Handing the file in at the counter yourself. The guidelines allow an application submitted personally or sent by post or courier, and nothing else, so agents and advocates cannot file it for you.
- BharatKosh
- The Non-Tax Receipt Portal at bharatkosh.gov.in, the only accepted channel for the gazette fee. Demand drafts were discontinued.
- e-Gazette portal
- egazette.gov.in, where published Central issues are searched and downloaded free. It is an archive, not a place to file an application.
- Registrar correction
- A correction to a birth or death record under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, through the body that registered it, which in Delhi is the MCD, the NDMC or the Delhi Cantonment Board. Not a gazette matter.
- NCT of Delhi
- The National Capital Territory of Delhi, the designation created by the Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991, which inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB and came into force on 1 February 1992.
What do you update after the gazette, and in what order?
The gazette is the middle of the journey, not the end. Doing this in the wrong order turns a four week job into a four month one.
| Order | Record | Why it comes here |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aadhaar | Almost everything else verifies against Aadhaar. Update it at an enrolment centre with the gazette PDF and your identity proof. |
| 2 | PAN card | The correction form asks for proof, and an updated Aadhaar makes this straightforward. |
| 3 | Bank accounts | Banks check the PAN and Aadhaar pair. Updating the bank first creates a mismatch you then have to undo. |
| 4 | Passport | Re-issue with the change of name, once Aadhaar and PAN already carry it. |
| 5 | Voter ID and driving licence | Straightforward once Aadhaar carries the new name. |
| 6 | EPFO or UAN and insurance | Employer linked records. HR usually needs the notification and the updated Aadhaar together. |
| 7 | School, board and university records | Including any in other states. Each board runs its own correction process and charges its own fee. |
| 8 | Employer, property, GST and business records | Last, because these usually verify against the updated identity documents rather than the gazette alone. |
Watch: updating Aadhaar and PAN after the gazette
Name Change in Aadhaar Card in Delhi दिल्ली में आधार कार्ड में नाम कैसे बदलें
How to Name Change in PAN Card in Delhi पैन कार्ड में नाम कैसे बदलें
Watch: the bank account and the driving licence
How to Name Change in Bank Account in Delhi बैंक खाते में नाम कैसे बदलें
How to Name Change in Driving Licence in Delhi दिल्ली में ड्राइविंग लाइसेंस में नाम कैसे बदलें
Aadhaar rules are on uidai.gov.in and passport re-issue rules on passportindia.gov.in.
Birth certificate correction: which body in Delhi?
Delhi is unusual here, because it has more than one registering authority.
If the mistake is in a birth certificate, the fix is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, not a gazette matter. Which authority you approach depends on where the birth was registered:
MCD
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi, for most of the city.
NDMC
The New Delhi Municipal Council, for the NDMC area.
Cantonment Board
The Delhi Cantonment Board, for the cantonment area.
Check the certificate itself, because it names the issuing body. The Civil Registration System portal is crsorgi.gov.in. A gazette notification can support the file, but it does not rewrite the certificate, and an agent who sells you a gazette for a typo in a birth register is selling the wrong process.
Watch: correcting a name on a birth certificate
Name Correction in Birth Certificate in Delhi
Which special situations come up most in Delhi?
Four cases, and the first is more concentrated here than anywhere else in India.
Central Government, PSU and competitive exam applicants
Delhi has a concentration of applicants to central Government posts, PSUs, banks and competitive examinations, and these are the cases where a gazette notification is most often insisted upon rather than merely useful. Institutions of this kind commonly ask to see the gazette copy before they will amend their own records. Do the gazette properly and early, keep several printouts, and update Aadhaar and PAN before you submit any application form in the new name, so the documents you attach already agree with each other.
Certificates from other states
A large part of Delhi came from somewhere else, so the mismatch is often inherited: a board certificate issued in another state written one way, and everything obtained in Delhi written another. You do not need to travel back. A Central Gazette notification is valid in every state and supports a correction application wherever the original record sits. The board still runs its own process and decides the outcome.
Name change after marriage or reverting after divorce
The same three stages apply, with the marriage certificate or the decree attached. If you keep using your existing name and nothing on paper changes, you do not need a gazette at all, whatever anyone tells you, and no court order is involved either way.
A minor child
A parent or legal guardian applies on the child's behalf. The affidavit is sworn by the parent, the child's birth certificate is attached, and the minor fee applies, commonly Rs 1,700 with the same revision caveat. Both parents signing avoids objections later. School admission is the usual trigger, so allow the full timeline rather than starting in admission week.
Watch: board, school and education records
Name Change in Education Document in Delhi | 10th, 12th and Graduation
How to Name Change in School Record in Delhi दिल्ली में स्कूल रिकॉर्ड में नाम कैसे बदलें
Watch: correcting a father name on an education document
Father Name Change in Education Document दिल्ली में शिक्षा दस्तावेज़ में पिता का नाम कैसे बदलें
What changes for Government employees in Delhi?
Central Government employees follow the 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 the department, so that the service book is updated alongside the gazette notification. Delhi has more central Government employees than any other city, so this is a common case here rather than an edge case.
Delhi Government employees should likewise inform their department rather than doing the gazette quietly. Ask your establishment branch one thing before you spend anything: which gazette they want on the record, and in what order. Send us any departmental circular and we build the file around it.
Watch: a Government employee name change in Delhi
How to Name Change for a Government Employee in Delhi दिल्ली में सरकारी कर्मचारी का नाम परिवर्तन
What names does the law not allow, and what do you gain by doing it properly?
You may take almost any name you like. Almost.
Names that will not be accepted
- A name taken in order to hide your identity
- A name taken to escape a debt, a liability or a legal proceeding
- A name that is obscene or offensive
- A name containing punctuation marks or symbols
- A name that impersonates another person for gain
A change of name does not erase anything behind you. Your old records stay linked through the notification itself, which names both the old and the new name. That is the point of publishing it.
What you gain by doing it legally
- Official recognition that every department works from, public or private
- One exact spelling that Aadhaar, PAN, bank, board, employer and passport records all follow
- A record valid in every state, so a certificate issued elsewhere is reconciled too
- A published entry a PSU, a bank or a foreign mission can verify independently on egazette.gov.in
- No lawyer and no court order needed, because this is an administrative process
What mistakes get Delhi applications rejected?
Every one of these is avoidable, and the fee is not refundable.
In the file itself
- Newspaper text that does not match the affidavit, even by one letter, initial or space. The single most common failure
- A cutting instead of the complete original newspaper page with the date visible
- A handwritten proforma where a computer typed one in duplicate is required
- Missing witness details or their identity proofs
- A soft copy whose text does not match the hard copy, when a signed certificate says it does
- Documents older than one year
Wrong route, or bad advice
- Arranging a demand draft, or a CD of documents, because a page still lists them
- Paying a figure like Rs 520 to somebody on the strength of a page that contradicts itself, instead of paying the Government fee on BharatKosh
- Turning up at Civil Lines in the afternoon, or on a day when the counter is closed, without ringing first
- Looking for an online application portal that does not exist for the Central Gazette
- Planning a visit from a page that gives a Mumbai address under a Delhi heading
- Taking a birth certificate error to the gazette instead of the MCD, NDMC or Cantonment Board
Should you do it yourself or take professional help?
Let us be straight, because in Delhi more than anywhere the honest answer is that a lot of people should simply do this themselves.
The office is in your city, the steps are paperwork rather than law, no lawyer is required, and this page has the sequence. If you have a free weekday morning, you have what you need, and we would rather you used it than paid somebody for something you can do.
| Point of comparison | Doing it yourself | Using Documentadvisor |
|---|---|---|
| Money out | Rs 2,000 to Rs 6,000, if nothing goes wrong | Government charge plus a quoted service charge |
| Your time | A notary visit, two newspaper bookings, the proforma typed correctly, and a morning at Civil Lines | About 30 minutes of sending scans and confirming the wording |
| When help is worth paying for | A deadline: a passport appointment, an exam form or a joining date, where a returned file costs far more than the help did | Every field checked before it goes, so the file is accepted the first time |
| The second reason | A tangled case: a board certificate from another state, an Aadhaar and an employer record that all disagree, and somebody has to decide which version wins | We settle which version wins, in writing, before anything is drafted |
| The third reason | Not having a working morning to spare | We prepare it so your one trip is the only trip, or we courier it |
| Best if | A plain change, one clear spelling, no deadline, and a free weekday morning | A deadline, scattered records, a central Government or PSU application, or no morning to spare |
Watch: what a name change consultant actually does
Name Change Consultant in Delhi दिल्ली में नेम चेंज कंसल्टेंट
Your Trust and Security First
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.
Your documents stay private
Your scans go to one advisor and one file. We do not resell your details, add you to a marketing list, or publish anyone's papers as samples.
We work from the offices' own pages
Not from a search result. The address on this page is quoted from the Department of Publication's own homepage, and the fee, document list and submission rule from its published change of name guidelines.
Delhi is home ground
Our office is in Burari, and Civil Lines is a short run from it. We know what the counter asks for, and we prepare the file so your one trip is the only trip.
We settle the exact form first
Against your passport, your board certificate and your employer record. Spelling, spacing and initials, sent to you letter by letter, with your written confirmation before anything is drafted.
We tell you what to ignore
No Rs 520 fee, no online application portal, no demand draft, no CD of documents, no Mumbai address, and no expedited gazette. In this city, knowing what to discard saves more than knowing the process.
Your originals come back to you
Original newspaper pages and the affidavit come back once the file is accepted, and we keep a scanned set so a lost document years later is not a fresh problem.
Everything You Need, In One Place
One place for the paperwork people find hardest: gazette notifications, affidavits, newspaper advertisements, rental agreements and property papers. Drafted, checked and filed by a team that does it daily.
Document Services
India's trusted documentation consultant and newspaper ad portal
How It Works
Booking a service with Documentadvisor is as easy as 1-2-3. Sit back and let our team do the work.
Book
Call, WhatsApp or fill the form. Tell us your old name, the exact new name you want, your district and the deadline behind it, then send clear scans including your passport and board certificate.
Schedule
We confirm the exact form with you in writing, draft the affidavit, schedule the Hindi and English notices, then build the complete file with the proforma, the soft copy and the certificate.
Relax
You hand it in at Civil Lines yourself, or we courier it, whichever you prefer. Then we track it to publication and send you a written checklist of which record to update next.
The questions Google gets asked most about Delhi
Where is the gazette office in Delhi?
The Department of Publication, at Civil Lines, behind Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station, Delhi 110054. Its own website describes it as a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, headed by the Controller of Publications.
Can I submit my name change file in person in Delhi?
Yes. The Department's published guidelines state that an application either submitted personally or sent by post or courier only will be entertained. Go on a working day, preferably in the morning, ring first because counter timings are not published online, and keep the acknowledgement.
What is the gazette name change fee in Delhi?
Commonly Rs 1,100 for adults and Rs 1,700 for minors, paid only through bharatkosh.gov.in and revised each financial year. Pages quoting around Rs 520 are wrong, and at least one of them gives two different figures within the same article.
Is there an online portal to apply for the Central Gazette?
No. The fee is paid online on BharatKosh and the published issue is downloaded from egazette.gov.in, but the signed file itself is submitted physically, in person or by post.
Do I need the Delhi Gazette or the Gazette of India?
The Gazette of India, Part IV. That is what passport offices, banks, UIDAI, central employers, PSUs and foreign authorities recognise, and it is valid across the country rather than only in Delhi.
Where do I correct a birth certificate in Delhi?
Through whichever body registered the birth: the MCD for most of Delhi, the NDMC for the New Delhi Municipal Council area, or the Delhi Cantonment Board for the cantonment. The certificate names the issuing body. That is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the RBD Act, 1969, not a gazette matter.
Start your Delhi name change today
Tell us your old name, the exact new name you want, your district and the deadline behind it. We will check the form against your passport and board certificate, tell you exactly what the file requires, and give you the total cost and the timeline, before you pay anything. If it is a job you can do yourself, we will say so.
- 📞Call 9540005002
Monday to Saturday, 9 AM to 6 PM - WhatsApp 9540005064
Send your scans here, it is the fastest way - ✉️support@documentadvisor.in
- 📍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 on name change in Delhi
The questions we are asked on the phone every day.
What is the exact address of the gazette office in Delhi?
Who should my request letter be addressed to?
What are the public dealing hours?
Should I go in person or post it?
Can my agent submit the file for me?
Is the gazette fee really Rs 520?
Can I apply online for the Central Gazette?
Do I need a demand draft or a CD?
I saw a Delhi gazette office page with a Mumbai address. Is that a branch?
Which newspapers should I use?
How long does it take from Delhi?
Can I pay extra to publish faster?
Will I get a printed gazette certificate?
Do I need a Delhi Gazette as well?
I am applying for a central Government job or a PSU. Anything different?
My birth certificate has a mistake. Where do I go?
My school certificate is from another state. Does a Delhi gazette help?
Can I change my name after marriage without a court order, and how old can my documents be?
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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.
- 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.
- Guidelines for Change of Name, Department of PublicationThe document list, the soft copy requirement, the matching-contents certificate, the one year rule, the fees for adults, minors and applicants abroad, and the sentence that an application either submitted personally or sent by post or courier only will be entertained.
- Sale counters, Department of PublicationThe main office and counter phone numbers, and the counters at Kitab Mahal, the Delhi High Court, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore. Useful for buying publications, not for submitting a change of name file.
- The Gazette of India, e-Gazette portalSearch and download published notifications free. Your Part IV notification appears here, and hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015. It is an archive, not an application portal.
- BharatKosh, the Non-Tax Receipt PortalThe only accepted channel for the 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.
- Municipal Corporation of DelhiBirth and death registration for most of Delhi, and the Registrar correction route under Section 15 of the RBD Act, 1969.
- New Delhi Municipal CouncilBirth and death registration for the NDMC area, which is a separate registering authority from the MCD.
- Civil Registration System, Registrar General of IndiaThe national framework for birth and death registration and for Registrar corrections.
- Government of NCT of DelhiDistrict administration, SDM offices and departmental listings across all eleven districts.
- Unique Identification Authority of IndiaAadhaar name update rules, accepted proofs and enrolment centre locations across Delhi.
- Passport SevaRe-issue with a change of name and the documents required for it.
- Documentadvisor: How to Change Name Legally in IndiaThe national overview, for Delhi in the wider Indian context.
The short version
Everything on this page in ten lines
- The gazette office is here: Department of Publication, Civil Lines, behind 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, who your request letter addresses.
- You can hand the file in yourself. Personally, or by post or courier, and no other channel, so agents cannot file it for you.
- Ring before you go. The Department publishes no public dealing hours on its own site, so ignore pages that invent them.
- Affidavit first, then two notices, one Hindi and one English, then the file. The wording must match everywhere, letter for letter.
- The file needs the proforma typed in duplicate with two witnesses, the soft copy in Word, the matching-contents certificate, and documents under a year old.
- Fee: commonly Rs 1,100 adult and Rs 1,700 minor in India, Rs 3,500 and Rs 5,100 from abroad, on BharatKosh only, never by demand draft, never refundable.
- Not Rs 520, and not Rs 523. Both appear on one page, for the same charge, and both are wrong.
- There is no online application portal. Payment is online, the download is online, the signed file is physical.
- A birth certificate mistake goes to the MCD, the NDMC or the Delhi Cantonment Board, whichever registered the birth.
Change your name once, and change it properly
Send us your documents on WhatsApp today. We will check the form against your passport and board certificate, prepare a file that gets accepted the first time, and give you the total cost and the timeline before you pay anything. Then you can hand it in at Civil Lines yourself, or we will courier it. All eleven districts, and the wider NCR.