Name Change Procedure in Mizoram
Mizoram publishes personal name changes under a name of its own: a Deed Changing Name, issued by the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department and printed at the Mizoram Government Press in Aizawl. The guides ranking for this state do not mention it, and one of them talks about Noida from beginning to end. This page covers both routes, the surname field problem that brings most Mizo applicants here, and honest fees and timelines.
Mizoram residents have two routes. The state route: a notarised affidavit, a newspaper advertisement, then an application to the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram, for publication in the Mizoram Gazette as a Deed Changing Name. The central route: the same affidavit and notices, then a signed file posted to the Gazette of India in Delhi, published in Part IV in about 30 to 45 days and valid across India and abroad.
What does the name change procedure in Mizoram involve?
One decision, then three careful stages. The decision is which gazette, and in Mizoram it is a real choice, because the state runs a working gazette with a searchable archive on the department's own website. What is not simple is the search result you land on. The page ranking for this state on one well known site talks about Noida in its body text from the first paragraph to the last, and another tells readers to publish their newspaper advertisement after the gazette, which is the wrong way round and will get a file rejected.
A Gazette notification is a formal announcement of your name change printed in the official journal of a Government. Once it carries a date, a volume and an issue number, passport offices, UIDAI, banks, boards 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
- State route
- The Mizoram Gazette, with an e-Gazette search on the department's own site at printingstationery.mizoram.gov.in
- State authority
- Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram
- Where it is printed
- The Mizoram Government Press, Aizawl
- What it is called here
- A Deed Changing Name, not a name change notification
- Registration
- RNI No. 27009/1973, Postal Regn. No. NE-313(MZ), printed on the masthead of every issue
- Central route
- Gazette of India, Part IV, a signed file posted to Delhi
- Central office
- Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. No branch in Mizoram
- Newspapers
- Mizo or English, whichever daily genuinely circulates where you live. Hindi is not the regional language here
- Central fee
- Commonly Rs 1,100 adult and Rs 1,700 minor, on BharatKosh only, revised each financial year
- State charges
- Ask the Controller's office. No reliable public figure exists
- Most common real reason
- A name with no surname meeting a form that insists on one, usually a passport or a visa
- Where to download
- egazette.gov.in for Part IV. Hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015
Key takeaways
- Mizoram has a working state gazette. The Mizoram Gazette carries RNI No. 27009/1973 and Postal Regn. No. NE-313(MZ), is published and issued by the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram, and is printed at the Mizoram Government Press, Aizawl. Those lines appear on the masthead and the last page of the issues themselves.
- Personal name changes here are published as a Deed Changing Name. The department indexes them on its own site, whose e-Gazette search invites you to find gazettes by subject, time and department.
- What actually gets printed is your affidavit. Published deeds appear under the heading Affidavit for Change of Name, carrying the renouncing wording, the date, the notary and the identifying advocate. So the affidavit is not just a supporting paper here, it is the text of the record.
- The languages are Mizo and English. The Mizoram Official Language Act, 1975 makes Mizo the language for official purposes and allows English, and a General Administration Department circular of 22 June 2021 told every department to issue Government instruments and notifications in both. Hindi is not the regional language of this state, whatever a template page tells you.
- Mizo names often carry no inherited surname of the kind passport and visa forms demand. That is the single biggest practical reason people here need a gazette, and it is covered in detail below.
- The newspaper advertisement comes before the gazette application, not after. One widely shared page has this backwards.
- The Central fee is commonly Rs 1,100 adult and Rs 1,700 minor, on bharatkosh.gov.in only, revised each financial year. Demand drafts are not accepted, and there is no Controller of Publications in Mizoram to draw one in favour of.
- A birth certificate mistake is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969. It is not a gazette matter.
Why does a name change feel so ordinary in this state?
Because almost everything here has been renamed at least once, and each time it took an official notification to make it stick.
Aizawl began as a British outpost. It was set up as Fort Aijal in 1890, in the wake of the Chin-Lushai expedition of 1889 to 1890, and it stayed Aijal on official paper for decades afterwards. Today it is Aizawl: the capital and largest city of Mizoram, spread along ridges at about 1,132 metres, and one of the most literate cities in India at roughly 98 percent at the 2011 Census. The name itself is read as coming from ai, cardamom, and zawl, flatland.
The territory around it was renamed too, and by statute. The Mizo District of Assam became the Union Territory of Mizoram under Section 6 of the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, Act 81 of 1971, which received assent on 30 December 1971 and came into force on the appointed day, 21 January 1972, notified by G.S.R. 18(E) dated 6 January 1972. Full statehood followed under Section 3 of the State of Mizoram Act, 1986, Act 34 of 1986, assented to on 14 August 1986, with the appointed day fixed as 20 February 1987.
What does Mizoram actually publish, and what is it called?
Most guides speak vaguely about state gazettes. Here you can see exactly what the department does.
The Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram runs a gazette section on its own website, and its front page invites you to find gazettes by subject, time, department and so on. Personal name changes appear in that archive under a heading of their own: Deed changing name, sometimes written as Deed changing name or surname of a named person, with their post or department where they hold one.
The publication, in its own words
- Masthead: The Mizoram Gazette, regular and Extra Ordinary editions, Published by Authority
- RNI No. 27009/1973 and Postal Regn. No. NE-313(MZ)
- Each issue carries a volume in Roman numerals, then Aizawl, the day, the date and an issue number
- Footer: Published and Issued by Controller, Printing & Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram
- And: Printed at the Mizoram Government Press, Aizawl
What a published deed looks like inside
The printed item is headed Affidavit for Change of Name. The deponent states that they wholly renounce, relinquish and abandon the use of the former name and assume the new one, undertake to use it in all records, deeds and writings and in all proceedings, dealings and transactions, and authorise everyone to address them by it. It closes with a declaration that the statements are correct to the best of their knowledge and belief.
It is dated, signed, identified by an advocate and sworn before a Notary Public whose registration number is printed. Then it goes into the gazette as it stands.
My name has no surname. Why does every form fight me?
This is the practical heart of name changes in Mizoram, and no competing page addresses it at all.
Mizo names are not built the way Indian form design assumes. Traditionally there is no inherited surname. A name is commonly a single compound word, with a final -a for a man and -i for a woman, and where a clan name is used as a second element it does not function as a family name in the way a plains surname does. Historically families even practised Fa Hming Koh, taking a name from the firstborn child, so a father and a child sharing nothing in their names is entirely normal here. Pu and Pi are honorifics, roughly Mr and Mrs, not parts of the name.
Inside Mizoram this causes no difficulty whatsoever. Outside it, and inside computerised systems anywhere, it produces recurring trouble.
How the mismatch shows up
- Passport and visa forms want a given name and a surname in separate fields. A single name fits neither
- Some systems duplicate the single name into both fields, some leave the surname blank, and some split a compound name at an arbitrary point
- A verification system comparing two documents that resolved the same name differently reads them as two different people
- Airlines, foreign universities and employers each apply their own rule, so one person accumulates three or four written versions of a name they never changed
It is not only an inconvenience
It can stop a journey. Following a directive to airlines, from 21 November 2022 passengers holding a passport with a single name and travelling on a tourist, visitor or other visa were not permitted to travel to or from the United Arab Emirates. Holders of a residence permit were allowed, provided the name appeared in both the first name and the surname columns.
Rules of that kind change, and you should check the current position with the airline and the mission before you fly. The point is the direction of travel: systems abroad increasingly insist on two fields, and a single name is treated as an incomplete record rather than a valid one.
What a deed or a gazette actually does about it. It lets you declare one exact written form of your name, deliberately, and have it recorded publicly. If you choose to take a clan name as a surname so that forms have something to put in that field, the record says so. If you would rather keep a single name and simply fix its spelling and spacing once and for all, the record says that instead. Neither choice is more correct. What matters is that the choice is made once, by you, rather than repeatedly by whichever clerk is filling in the form. Then Aadhaar, the passport and everything downstream is updated to match it.
Which language should the newspaper advertisement be in?
Mizo or English. Not Hindi, whatever the template pages say.
A great many name change pages for the north east carry the sentence that you must publish one advertisement in the regional language Hindi and another in English. That sentence is copied from a Delhi template and it is simply wrong for this state. Under the Mizoram Official Language Act, 1975, Act 3 of 1975, the Mizo language is the language to be used for the official purposes of the territory, and the Act separately provides that English may be used for all or any official purposes. On 22 June 2021 the General Administration Department went further and circulated that all departments and offices should issue both the English and the Mizo versions of Government instruments, notifications and office memoranda, on the reasoning that a single language leaves the content liable to be not fully understood.
Five claims about Mizoram that are wrong
Each of these is on a page ranking today, and each one costs somebody time or money.
A Mizoram page that is actually about Noida
One site's gazette page for this state carries Mizoram in the title and then talks about Noida throughout the body, telling readers that in its online name change service in Noida they need not visit a Government office. The same failure appears on that publisher's Meghalaya and Manipur pages, which suggests one template with the state name swapped in the heading and nothing else checked.
A ministry that does not exist
The same page credits the Gazette to a Ministry of Home and Urban Affairs. There is no such ministry. The Department of Publication is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Another page describes the Central process as running through a Directorate of Government Printing and Stationery, which is a state level title, not the Central authority.
Advertise after the gazette
A gazette offices page tells readers to publish advertisements after the gazette for passport purposes. That reverses the sequence. The advertisement is public notice of an intended change, and its proof goes into the gazette application. Publish first, apply second.
Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000, or Rs 999
One page puts the approximate cost of a legal name change in India at Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000, which is not a Government charge at all. At the other end, Rs 999 packages appear here as everywhere, when the Central Government fee alone is commonly Rs 1,100. Both numbers are marketing, not fees.
A demand draft in favour of a Controller in Mizoram
Older pages, including earlier versions of our own network's pages, instruct a demand draft of Rs 1,100 drawn in favour of the Controller of Publications, Mizoram. Two errors in one line. The Central fee is paid only through BharatKosh, and there is no Controller of Publications in Mizoram. That officer heads the Department of Publication in Delhi.
Regional language Hindi
Template pages tell Mizoram readers to advertise in the regional language Hindi. Mizoram's official language legislation names Mizo, with English permitted, and the state's own circular asks for Government material in English and Mizo. A Hindi advertisement helps nobody here.
Mizoram Gazette or the Central Gazette: which one does your case need?
Many states leave private citizens with no practical state route. Mizoram does not.
| Point | Mizoram Gazette (state) | Central Gazette of India |
|---|---|---|
| Authority | Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram | Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054 |
| Printed at | The Mizoram Government Press, Aizawl | Published digitally on egazette.gov.in |
| What it is called | A Deed Changing Name, printed as an Affidavit for Change of Name | A name change notification in Part IV |
| What the entry records | Your old and new name, parentage, locality and town, with the notary details | Old name, new name, parentage and address |
| Fee | Ask the Controller's office for current charges | Commonly Rs 1,100 adult and Rs 1,700 minor, on BharatKosh, revised each financial year |
| Where to find it later | The department's own gazette archive, searchable by subject, time and department | egazette.gov.in, free to download |
| Best for | Records inside Mizoram, state departments, boards and service records | Passport, central Government jobs, banks outside the state, anything abroad |
The Mizoram Gazette route, step by step
Four stages, and the first one is a decision rather than a form.
Fix the exact name, then the affidavit
Including whether you keep a single name or take a surname, then a notarised affidavit built around it.
Publish the advertisement
In a Mizo or English daily that genuinely circulates where you live, with the original page kept.
Apply to the Controller
To the Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram, for publication as a Deed Changing Name.
Step 1: fix the exact name, then notarise the affidavit
Get an affidavit drafted stating your existing name, the name you are adopting, your parentage and your address including locality and town, then sign it before a notary. Stamp paper and notary together usually cost Rs 100 to Rs 500. Settle the exact spelling and spacing at this stage, because everything after this copies from it, and on this route the affidavit text is what gets printed.
Step 2: publish the newspaper advertisement
Publish the change in a daily that genuinely circulates where you live. Mizo and English are the languages in use here, and the wording must match the affidavit exactly. Keep the complete original printed page with the date visible, since the office will want to see it, and a cutting is easy to dispute. One advertisement usually costs Rs 400 to Rs 2,000. The advertisement comes before the gazette application, not after, whatever a widely shared guide says.
Step 3: apply to the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department
Submit your application with the affidavit, the newspaper proof, identity and address proof and photographs to the Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram, whose site is printingstationery.mizoram.gov.in. The department publishes and issues the gazette through the Controller, and printing is done at the Mizoram Government Press in Aizawl. Confirm the current form, submission method and charges with the office before travelling, particularly from Lunglei, Saiha or Lawngtlai.
Step 4: publication and keeping your copy
Once processed, your Deed Changing Name is published in the Mizoram Gazette, in a numbered issue carrying a volume, the day and the date, and it becomes part of the department's own archive, which is searchable by subject, time and department. Download or obtain the entry and keep it safely. Every office you approach afterwards will want its own copy, so make several printouts rather than fetching a fresh one each time.
The Central Gazette route, step by step
For a passport, a visa, a central Government job, a bank in another state, or anything abroad.
Step 1: the affidavit and the newspaper advertisements
The same affidavit works. For a Central file the settled practice is two advertisements in dailies that circulate where you live, with English a safe choice for at least one so the Department can read the matter without difficulty. Keep the complete original printed page of each, not a cutting, with the date visible. Two advertisements usually cost Rs 800 to Rs 4,000.
Step 2: prepare the file for Delhi
Per the Department's published guidelines the file contains: the original newspaper pages; a signed undertaking with your old and new name, parentage and residential address; two copies of the prescribed proforma, computer typed and attested, with the full details of two witnesses; a CD containing the print matter in MS Word without the witness portion; a certificate signed by you declaring the hard and soft copies match; self-attested identity of the applicant and each witness; two passport size photographs; and a request letter to the Controller of Publications. Keep every supporting document less than one year old.
Step 3: pay through BharatKosh only
The Central fee is paid only through bharatkosh.gov.in, commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult and Rs 1,700 for a minor, with an additional Rs 250 where an adult adopts a name of another religion without changing religion. The Department's guidelines state the fee varies each financial year and varies from case to case, so confirm the current amount on deptpub.gov.in before paying. It is not refundable, and no demand draft is involved, despite what several older Mizoram pages still instruct.
Step 4: send the file and download your notification
Send the complete file by post or courier to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. Speed post from Aizawl works as well as walking it in, though allow extra days each way from the southern districts. Applications are entertained only from the applicant, which is why an honest consultant prepares and checks your file while you sign and send it. Your notification then appears in Part IV of the Gazette of India, in weekly Saturday dated issues, about 30 to 45 days after the file reaches Delhi. Since hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015, you open the 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.
What documents are required for a name change in Mizoram?
One core list, plus what the Central route adds and what your case may need.
The core file, either route
- Notarised affidavit stating the existing name, the adopted name, parentage and address with locality, sworn by you
- Aadhaar or other Government photo identity showing the existing name, self-attested
- Address proof showing your locality and town
- The complete original newspaper page carrying the advertisement, with the date visible
- The completed application for the route you are using
- Two passport size photographs
What the Central route adds, and what your case may need
- Two copies of the prescribed proforma, typed, with the full details of two witnesses
- A CD with the print matter in MS Word, without the witness portion, and the matching-contents certificate
- Self-attested identity proof of each witness, and a request letter to the Controller of Publications
- Complete original pages of both newspapers
- 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
What does a name change in Mizoram really cost?
Short answer: the Central fee is commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult, and a realistic all-in total is Rs 1,000 to Rs 6,000.
| Item | Typical amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stamp paper and notary | Rs 100 to Rs 500 | A local notary. Ask what the current stamp paper value is. |
| Newspaper advertisement | Rs 400 to Rs 4,000 | One for the state route, two for a Central file. Mizo or English, whichever circulates where you live. |
| Mizoram Gazette charges | Ask the Controller's office | No reliable public figure exists. Confirm before travelling to Aizawl. |
| Central Gazette fee, adult | Commonly Rs 1,100 | On BharatKosh only, revised each financial year, non-refundable. |
| Central Gazette fee, minor | Commonly Rs 1,700 | Applies to anyone under 18. Also on BharatKosh. |
| Religion related addition | Rs 250 | Where an adult adopts a name of another religion without changing religion, per the published guidelines. |
| Speed post to Delhi | Rs 50 to Rs 200 | The only distance cost on the Central route. Allow extra days from the southern districts. |
| Applying from abroad | Around Rs 7,500 to Rs 9,000 | The Government fee plus embassy or consulate attestation of the deed and courier. |
| Gazette PDF retrieval | Free | Central issues are published online. Nobody should charge you to fetch a published issue. |
| Realistic self-done total | Rs 1,000 to Rs 6,000 | Depends on the route and which newspapers you choose. |
How long does a name change take in Mizoram?
Short answer: 3 to 7 weeks on the Central route, and neither route sells a fast track.
Day 1 to 2
The exact written form settled, single name or surname decided, documents collected, affidavit drafted and notarised.
Day 2 to 9
The advertisement booked in a Mizo or English daily. Publication follows the paper's schedule, so allow 2 to 7 days, then collect the complete page.
State route: the department's cycle
Submission at Aizawl, then the Mizoram Gazette's own publication cycle. Ask the office for the current turnaround when you submit.
Central route: then 30 to 45 days
Two to five days to prepare and send, the fee paid on BharatKosh, then publication in Part IV after the file reaches Delhi.
Plan for 3 to 7 weeks on the Central route from the first phone call to a notification you can download, allowing extra postal days from the southern districts. If you are running both routes, start them together rather than one after the other, because the same affidavit and the same advertisement serve each.
Which parts of Mizoram do we serve?
All eleven districts, and wherever you are currently studying or working. The Central route runs entirely by post, and we can prepare your file from anywhere.
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.
Related guides
Other states written up in the same detail, plus the national process, in case your records sit in more than one place.
What do the gazette terms actually mean?
The words that appear on every name change website, and the Mizoram ones, 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.
- Deed Changing Name
- The heading under which personal name changes are published in the Mizoram Gazette and indexed in the department's archive. Ask for it by this name at the office and when searching.
- Mizoram Gazette
- The official journal of the Government of Mizoram, published in regular and Extra Ordinary editions, carrying RNI No. 27009/1973 and Postal Regn. No. NE-313(MZ).
- Controller, Printing and Stationery Department
- The Mizoram officer who publishes and issues the state gazette. The footer of every issue reads that it is published and issued by the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram.
- Mizoram Government Press
- The Government press at Aizawl where the Mizoram Gazette is printed, as stated on the issues themselves.
- Central Gazette
- The Gazette of India, published by the Department of Publication in Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. Accepted across India and by foreign missions.
- 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, and a state gazette has its own numbering.
- Controller of Publications
- The officer heading the Department of Publication, at Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. There is no Controller of Publications in Mizoram, so no demand draft should ever be drawn in favour of one here.
- Affidavit
- A written statement you swear is true, signed before a notary. On the Mizoram route it matters twice over, because the published deed reproduces the affidavit text itself.
- Proforma
- The prescribed application format the Department of Publication requires on the Central route, computer typed in two copies and signed by you and two witnesses, whose identity proofs are also enclosed.
- Single name
- A name recorded without a separate surname. Common and unremarkable in Mizoram, but treated as an incomplete record by many passport, visa and airline systems outside it.
- Deed poll
- A British instrument for changing a name. India does not use it. A Mizoram Deed Changing Name is something different: a published state gazette entry, not a private English deed.
- 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 body that issued it. Not a gazette matter.
What do you update after the gazette, and in what order?
The deed or notification 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 copy 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 before those two creates a mismatch you then have to undo. |
| 4 | Passport | Re-issue with the change of name, checking carefully how the given name and surname fields are filled, because that split is the whole point for a single name applicant. |
| 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 | Slowest of the lot. Each board, council and university runs its own correction process and charges its own fee. |
| 8 | Land, property and business records | Through the registering authority and, where a firm is involved, the GST and business registrations. |
Aadhaar rules are on uidai.gov.in and passport re-issue rules on passportindia.gov.in.
Is a birth certificate mistake a gazette matter in Mizoram?
No. If the error sits in a birth certificate, whether it is a wrong spelling, a wrong parent name or a missing child name, the fix is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, through the body that issued the certificate. The Civil Registration System portal is crsorgi.gov.in.
A gazette entry or a deed can support the file, but it does not rewrite the certificate itself, and anyone who pushes every birth certificate case into a gazette application is charging you for the wrong process. The Registrar route is usually both cheaper and faster.
Which special situations come up most in Mizoram?
Four cases we see constantly.
Students and professionals leaving the state
Mizoram has exceptionally high literacy, and a great many young people study or work outside it. That is where a single name first meets a form that insists on a surname, usually at a university portal, an employer's HR system or a passport counter. The Central Gazette settles it nationwide, because Part IV is valid in every state and recognised by embassies, and the whole file can be prepared and posted from wherever you are.
Board and university records
A name on a school or board certificate that does not match a later identity document is a very common starting point. The board or council runs its own correction process, and the gazette or deed supports that application rather than replacing it. Ask which one they accept before choosing a route, since state records often accept the state deed, which is the closer office.
Name change after marriage
Practice varies here, and the paperwork should follow the person's actual choice rather than an assumption. If you are changing anything, the same stages apply with the marriage certificate attached, and a divorce follows the same route with the decree attached. If you keep your existing name and nothing on paper changes, no gazette or deed is needed at all, and no court order is involved either way.
A minor child
A parent or legal guardian applies on the child's behalf, attaching the child's birth certificate and the parent's identity proof. On the Central route the minor fee applies, commonly Rs 1,700 with the usual revision caveat, and both parents signing avoids objections later. Nobody has to be eighteen to have their name changed.
What changes for Government employees in Mizoram?
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.
State Government employees in Mizoram should likewise inform their department rather than doing the gazette quietly. It is worth knowing that published Mizoram deeds frequently name the applicant's post and department in the heading itself, which tells you the department is expected to be in the loop from the start. Ask your office 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.
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 published entry 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 written form that Aadhaar, PAN, bank, board and passport records all follow
- A given name and surname split that foreign systems can read the same way Indian ones do
- An entry that sits in a searchable Government archive, so a lost copy is not a lost record
- No lawyer and no court order needed, because this is an administrative process
What mistakes get Mizoram applications rejected?
Every one of these is avoidable, and on the Central route the fee is not refundable.
In the file itself
- Spelling or spacing that differs between the affidavit, the advertisement and the application. On the state route the affidavit text is what gets printed, so it has to be right
- Parentage or locality written differently across documents, when both appear in the published entry
- Submitting cuttings instead of the complete original newspaper page with the date visible
- Documents older than one year in the Central file, or a handwritten proforma where a typed one is required
- Missing the witness details or their identity proofs on the Central proforma
Wrong route, or bad advice
- Publishing the advertisement after the gazette application instead of before it, on the advice of a guide that has the order reversed
- Letting a form clerk decide how your single name splits into given name and surname, instead of declaring the form yourself
- Booking a Hindi advertisement because a template page said regional language Hindi
- Arranging a demand draft instead of paying the Central fee on BharatKosh
- Travelling to Aizawl from a southern district without confirming the current form and charges
- Taking a birth certificate error to the gazette instead of the Registrar under Section 15
- Expecting the deed or gazette to update school, service or land records by itself
Should you do it yourself or take professional help?
The state route is simple in principle, and if you live in or near Aizawl doing it yourself is perfectly reasonable.
| Point of comparison | Doing it yourself | Using Documentadvisor |
|---|---|---|
| Money out | Rs 1,000 to Rs 6,000, if nothing goes wrong | Government charge plus a quoted service charge |
| Your time | A notary visit, a newspaper booking, and either an Aizawl submission or the Delhi file and the post | About 30 minutes of sending scans and confirming the wording |
| The Mizoram specific risk | Deciding how your name should be written so it survives a passport form, a visa application and a foreign database | We settle the written form with you in writing, field by field, before anything is drafted |
| The judgement call | Which route your case actually needs, and whether this is a gazette matter at all rather than a Registrar or board correction | We settle that first, before anything is drafted or paid for |
| Risk of paying twice | The Central fee is non-refundable, and a format mismatch sends a state file back for a fresh round | Every field and every line checked before anything is submitted |
| Best if | A plain change, one clear spelling, records staying inside Mizoram, and you live near Aizawl | A passport or visa, a single name going into a surname field, a board record, study or work outside the state, or both routes together |
The judgement worth paying for sits earlier than the paperwork: deciding how your name should be written so that it survives a passport form, a visa application and a foreign database, and choosing the route that matches where the name has to work. That decision is permanent in practice, because every document afterwards inherits it. You can compare the whole range of name change services before deciding.
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 share your papers outside your case.
We work from the offices' own pages
Not from a search result. The state details on this page come from the Mizoram Gazette issues themselves and the Printing and Stationery Department's own site, and the Central fee and document list from the Department of Publication's published guidelines.
We settle the written form before anything is drafted
Whether you keep a single name or take a clan name as a surname, which part sits in which field, and exactly how it is spaced. We send it to you letter by letter and wait for your written confirmation.
We tell you what to ignore
No Hindi advertisement, no demand draft, no Controller of Publications in Mizoram, no expedited gazette, and no page that talks about Noida. In this state, knowing which claims to discard saves more than knowing the process.
One advisor, start to finish
The same person handles your file from the first scan to the published entry, on the same number you first called, whether you are in Lawngtlai or in London.
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.
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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 existing name, the exact written form you want, your parentage and locality, your district and where the name has to be accepted, then send clear scans.
Schedule
We confirm the route and the exact written form with you in writing, draft the affidavit, then schedule the advertisement and prepare either the Aizawl application or the Delhi file.
Relax
You submit or send the file, and we track it to publication, then send you a written checklist of which record to update next. No wrong route, no second round.
The questions Google gets asked most about Mizoram
How can I change my name legally in Mizoram?
Make a notarised affidavit, publish a newspaper advertisement, then apply either to the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram, for a Deed Changing Name in the Mizoram Gazette, or to the Department of Publication in Delhi for Part IV of the Gazette of India.
What is a Deed Changing Name in Mizoram?
It is the form a published personal name change takes in the Mizoram Gazette. Entries are indexed in the Printing and Stationery Department's own gazette archive, and what is printed is the affidavit itself, recording the old and new name, parentage and locality.
My name has no surname. How do I fill a passport form?
Decide the exact written form you want on record first, whether that means taking a clan name as a surname or keeping a single name with fixed spelling, declare it through a gazette entry, then update Aadhaar and apply for the passport in that form. Do not let each form decide for you.
Does the newspaper advertisement come before or after the gazette?
Before. The advertisement is public notice of your intended change and its proof goes into the gazette application. A widely shared page has this backwards, and following it will get a file rejected.
Which language should the advertisement be in?
Mizo or English, whichever daily genuinely circulates where you live. The Mizoram Official Language Act, 1975 names Mizo and allows English, and a Government circular of 22 June 2021 asks departments to issue notifications in both. Hindi is not the regional language here.
What is the Central Government fee for a gazette name change?
Commonly Rs 1,100 for adults and Rs 1,700 for minors, paid only through bharatkosh.gov.in, with Rs 250 extra where an adult adopts a name of another religion without changing religion. The Department of Publication revises the fee each financial year, so confirm the current amount before paying.
Start your Mizoram name change today
Tell us your existing name, the exact written form you want, your parentage and locality, your district and where the name has to be accepted. We will tell you which route your case needs, exactly what the file requires, the total cost and the timeline, before you pay anything.
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Frequently asked questions on name change in Mizoram
The questions we are asked on the phone every day.
Does Mizoram have its own gazette route for a name change?
What exactly is a Deed Changing Name?
Where can I see published name changes?
What does the state route cost?
Which language should the newspaper advertisement be in?
Does the newspaper advertisement come first?
I have a single name with no surname. Is that a problem?
Should I adopt a clan name as a surname?
Is the Mizoram Gazette valid outside the state?
How do I pay the Central Gazette fee?
Who runs the Central Gazette?
Will I get a printed Central Gazette copy by post?
Does a deed or gazette update my school certificate automatically?
How do I change my minor child's name?
My birth certificate has a spelling mistake. Do I need a gazette?
Can I change my name after marriage without a court order?
I study or work outside Mizoram. Can I apply from there?
Are the Rs 999 offers real, and can I pay extra to publish faster?
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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.
- Printing and Stationery Department, Government of MizoramThe department that publishes and issues the Mizoram Gazette, with an e-Gazette section that lets you find gazettes by subject, time and department. Deed changing name entries are indexed there.
- Mizoram Gazette archivePublished issues carrying RNI No. 27009/1973 and Postal Regn. No. NE-313(MZ), published and issued by the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, and printed at the Mizoram Government Press, Aizawl.
- Department of Publication, Government of IndiaThe single Central Gazette office, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, with the published change of name guidelines, the proforma and the current fee. A subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
- The Gazette of India, e-Gazette portalSearch and download published Central Gazette notifications free. Your Part IV notification appears here, and hard copies ceased on 1 October 2015.
- BharatKosh, the Non-Tax Receipt PortalThe only accepted channel for the Central Gazette fee. Demand drafts and direct transfers were discontinued.
- State of Mizoram Act, 1986, on India CodeAct 34 of 1986, assented to on 14 August 1986. Section 3 established the State of Mizoram from the existing Union territory, with the appointed day fixed as 20 February 1987.
- North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, on India CodeAct 81 of 1971. Section 6 formed the Union territory of Mizoram from the Mizo District of Assam, with the appointed day of 21 January 1972 notified by G.S.R. 18(E) dated 6 January 1972.
- Government of Mizoram official portalDepartment listings and district information across all eleven districts, from Aizawl to Saiha.
- Civil Registration System, Registrar General of IndiaBirth and death registration, and the framework for Registrar corrections under Section 15 of the RBD Act, 1969.
- Unique Identification Authority of IndiaAadhaar name update rules, accepted proofs and enrolment centre locations.
- Passport SevaRe-issue with a change of name, the documents required, and how the given name and surname fields are filled, which is the whole point for a single name applicant.
The short version
Everything on this page in ten lines
- Mizoram publishes personal name changes as a Deed Changing Name, in the Mizoram Gazette, RNI No. 27009/1973.
- The authority is the Controller, Printing and Stationery Department, Government of Mizoram, and it is printed at the Mizoram Government Press, Aizawl.
- What actually gets printed is your affidavit, so settle the wording, the parentage and the locality before you sign it.
- The Central route is Part IV of the Gazette of India, from Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and it is what a passport, a visa or an employer outside the state will look for.
- Advertise in a Mizo or English daily that circulates where you live. Hindi is not the regional language of this state.
- The advertisement comes before the gazette application, not after.
- A single name is normal here and a problem outside. Decide one written form deliberately, then let every document inherit it.
- Gazette first, then Aadhaar, then the passport. Doing the passport first means doing it twice.
- Central fee: commonly Rs 1,100 adult and Rs 1,700 minor, on BharatKosh only, never by demand draft, and there is no Controller of Publications in Mizoram.
- A birth certificate mistake is a Registrar correction under Section 15 of the RBD Act, 1969, through the body that issued it.
Change your name once, and change it properly
Send us your documents on WhatsApp today. We will tell you which route your case needs, settle exactly how your name should be written, and give you the total cost and the timeline before you pay anything. Aizawl, Lunglei, Champhai, Serchhip, Kolasib, Lawngtlai, every district, and applicants studying or working outside the state.