How to Change Name Legally in Delhi (2026 Guide)

Video guide

Watch: How the Delhi Name Change Procedure Works

A quick walkthrough of the affidavit, the Civil Lines gazette office and how to change your name legally in Delhi.

In this video, the YourDoorstep team explains how to change your name legally in Delhi: the documents you need, the real fees, and how we handle the whole process at your doorstep.

Changing your name is a big step. Maybe you just got married, you are fixing a spelling mistake that follows you across every document, or you simply want a name that fits you better. Whatever the reason, the name change procedure in Delhi follows a clear legal path, and Delhi residents have a real advantage: the Central Gazette office sits right here in the city at Civil Lines. This guide breaks down every step in plain words, whether you live in Rohini, Dwarka, Laxmi Nagar, Saket or anywhere across the NCR.

Quick Answer

To change your name in Delhi, follow three steps. Make a notarised affidavit, publish the change in a newspaper, the Department of Publication requires one, not two, then file for a gazette notification at the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054. Delhi uses the Central Gazette, valid across India. The fee is Rs 1,100 for adults and Rs 1,700 for minors, and it takes about 30 to 45 days.

Definition: A gazette notification is an official notice published in the Gazette of India (Part IV) that turns your name change into a public, legally recognised record, accepted by the passport office, banks, UIDAI and government departments across the country.

Delhi name change at a glance

Steps: Affidavit → newspaper ad → gazette notification
Gazette office: Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054
Nearest metro: Vidhan Sabha (Yellow Line)
Fee: Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor (BharatKosh), Rs 250 per extra alias
Time: About 30 to 45 days
Newspapers: One Hindi + one English daily

Key takeaways

The process has three steps: notarised affidavit, newspaper ad, then gazette notification.
Delhi uses the Central Gazette, and its office is right here at Civil Lines, so you can even file in person.
The Central Gazette is valid all over India and abroad, so it works for passport, PAN, Aadhaar, banks and jobs.
Fee: Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor on BharatKosh; realistic total with ads is about Rs 2,500 to Rs 6,000.
Delhi does not have a separate state gazette for personal name changes; the Central Gazette is the route.
Your file must reach the office within six months of the newspaper ad date.
A birth certificate spelling fix goes through the MCD Registrar (RBD Act), not the gazette.

Why Delhi has it easier

Delhi's Home Advantage

Every state in India files its personal name change with one office: the Department of Publication in Delhi. For the whole country that means post and couriers. For Delhi residents, that office is a local address.

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File in person

You can walk your file into the Civil Lines counter during public dealing hours instead of trusting it to the post.

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Fewer delays

No transit time and no lost couriers. Corrections, if any, can be sorted quickly because the office is nearby.

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Local help on hand

Our own office is minutes away in Burari, so we hand-deliver your file and follow up in person.

Where to file

Gazette Office in Delhi: Address, Metro & Timings

Here is the full visitor's guide to the Central Gazette office, the one place your file must reach.

Office	Department of Publication, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Address	Civil Lines, Delhi-110054 (behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha)
Nearest metro	Vidhan Sabha, Yellow Line, a short walk away
Public dealing hours	10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, on all working days. The Department's own words: "The public dealing Hour for this purpose in this department is 10:00AM to 01:00 PM and 02:00PM to 4:00PM on all working days"
Closed	Saturday, Sunday and gazetted holidays, note the irony, Part IV of the Gazette publishes on a Saturday, the day the counter is shut
Phones	011-23817823, 011-23819689, toll-free 1800-11-3765. A different number, 011-23357800, is printed inside the Department's own guidelines PDF. Fax 011-23817846
Change-of-name extensions	The Department designates extensions 221 and 222 for change of name and public notice work
Emails	acop-dep@nic.in (general) · gip-mr@nic.in (Weekly Gazette) · may-gippr@nic.in (Extraordinary Gazette)
Can you file online?	No. "Application either submitted personally or sent by Post/ Courier only will be entertained." Only the fee is online
Download gazette	egazette.gov.in, free. Printed copies ceased completely from 1 October 2015, vide Gazette of India Issue no. 602

Two addresses that will waste your day, both currently live on pages ranking above this one. One site sends you to "Civil Lines, Near Old Secretariat, Minto Road, Delhi-110002", that is the Government of India Press, which prints the gazette but does not receive name-change applications. Another sends you to Kitab Mahal, Baba Kharg Singh Marg, New Delhi-110001, that is a Publications Division book shop, entirely unrelated. The office you want is Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, behind the old Vidhan Sabha, and the metro station is Vidhan Sabha, not Civil Lines.

Heads up before you visit the department's website. As at the date of this update, deptpub.gov.in is serving an expired TLS certificate, so your browser will show a security warning and some tools cannot reach it at all. The site itself is genuine, this is a lapsed certificate on the government's side, not a phishing page. If you would rather not click through a browser warning, every document you need is linked directly from our downloads section, and the guideline PDFs are hosted on a separate government CDN that works normally.

Before you travel: call ahead, because timings do change without notice. Or skip the trip entirely and let us hand-deliver your file for you.

Clearing the confusion

Does Delhi Have Its Own State Gazette?

Quick Answer

Yes and no, and both halves matter. A Delhi Gazette does exist, issued for the Government of NCT of Delhi in Weekly and Extraordinary editions, with its own Part IV, carried on the e-Gazette platform under identifiers of the form SG-DL-W-… and SG-DL-E-…. But it is not a route for an individual's name change. It carries Delhi-government departmental notifications, and it is published by the very same Central office at Civil Lines. Your personal name change goes into Part IV of the Gazette of India.

This is worth being precise about, because pages currently ranking above this one get it wrong in both directions. Some tell you "Delhi has no gazette of its own", false. Others tell you to "publish your name change in the Gazette of Delhi" or to "pay on the official Delhi Government Gazette website", also false, and it will send you looking for a portal that does not exist.

What the Delhi Gazette actually is

The decisive evidence is the Department of Publication's own statement of its functions, which lists among its duties: "Publishing of notifications in various parts of the Gazette of India and Delhi Gazette." In other words, Delhi does not run an independent state printing department producing a citizen gazette, the way Haryana does. The same Central office at Civil Lines publishes both.

What appears in the Delhi Gazette is departmental business. The Extraordinary issue of 30 May 2025, for example, was an Environment Department notification about construction of the Common Central Secretariat Building. Delhi government departments head such notifications "(TO BE PUBLISHED IN PART-IV OF THE DELHI GAZETTE-EXTRAORDINARY)".

The negative evidence, which is just as useful

The Department of Publication publishes no fee schedule, proforma, checklist or guideline for an individual to publish anything in the Delhi Gazette. Every individual-notice guideline it publishes points to the Gazette of India, Part IV.
Delhi's e-District and District Magistrate service lists carry no change-of-name or gazette-notification service at all. There is no counter to walk up to.

In short: a Delhi resident changes their name through the Gazette of India, Part IV, filed at the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, with the fee paid to the Central government through BharatKosh. The Delhi Gazette exists, but there is no Delhi state gazette name-change service to apply to. And the Central Gazette is the stronger document anyway, it is accepted by the passport office, UIDAI, banks, universities, public sector employers and foreign embassies, and it is published on your doorstep.

Sources: Department of Publication, functions · Department of Publication, individual notice guidelines · Delhi Gazette Extraordinary, 30 May 2025

Good news

Change Your Name Without Visiting Any Office

Even though the office is close, you do not have to go there. A legal name change in India runs on paperwork, and the whole thing can be handled for you.

You share your details from home in Delhi, we prepare the affidavit, arrange the notary, book the Hindi and English newspaper ads, pay the government fee on BharatKosh, and hand your file to the Civil Lines office ourselves. Once it is published, we send you the gazette PDF. No queues, no half-days off work.

The process

Gazette Notification Steps for Name Change in Delhi

Every legal name change through the Central Gazette follows the same three steps, in this order.

How to change name legally in Delhi: notarised affidavit, newspaper advertisement and Gazette of India notification at the Department of Publication, Civil Lines — Change your name legally in Delhi through the Central Gazette at Civil Lines, handled at your doorstep across the NCR.

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Make the affidavit

A short legal statement on Rs 10 stamp paper with your old name, new name, address, father's or husband's name, and the reason, signed before a notary.

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Publish in newspapers

Announce the change in two papers, one Hindi and one English. This is a public notice, so anyone can object.

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File at Civil Lines

The file goes to the Department of Publication, Delhi. Your notice is printed in Part IV of the Gazette of India, and you download the PDF.

Step 1: Make the name change affidavit

An affidavit is a short legal statement on non-judicial stamp paper, usually Rs 10 in Delhi. It lists your old name, new name, address, father's or husband's name, and the reason for the change. You sign it in front of a notary, easy to find across Delhi's district courts at Tis Hazari, Karkardooma, Saket, Dwarka, Rohini and Patiala House.

Step 2: Publish the change in a newspaper, one is enough

The Department of Publication's guidelines are unambiguous, and almost every other Delhi page gets this wrong: "Change of name should be advertised in one of the daily local leading newspapers stating therein Father's/ Husband's name along with residential address." One newspaper satisfies the Gazette of India. Not two.

For Hindi you can use Navbharat Times, Hindustan or Dainik Jagran. For English, The Times of India, Hindustan Times or The Indian Express. The advertisement must carry your old name, new name, father's or husband's name, residential address and the affidavit date.

So why does everyone tell you two? Because the passport rule is different. The Ministry of External Affairs annexure for a name change on re-issue accepts "clippings of two local news papers or the Gazette notification of the concerned State Government", plus at least two public or school documents in the new name. That two-newspaper requirement belongs to Passport Seva, not to the gazette. Agents have merged the two lists and now sell you two advertisements as if the gazette demanded them. Our advice: run one if the gazette is your only goal; run two if a passport re-issue is next, because the second advertisement costs far less than a rejected passport file. But nobody can reject your gazette application for having run one.

Three rules about the newspaper itself that cause more rejections than anything else. First, submit the complete original newspaper, not a cutting and not a photocopy, the official checklist item literally reads "Original newspaper" and tells you to "forward it in original to this department". Second, the Department's objection letters require the advertisement to be highlighted on the page. Third, the newspaper must not be older than one year. And note: documents once submitted are never returned, so buy several copies of that day's paper.

Step 3: File the gazette notification at Civil Lines

The complete file goes to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054. It includes the notarised affidavit, both newspaper pages, a typed proforma signed by you and two witnesses, a soft copy on CD in MS Word, two passport photos, ID proof, a certificate that the hard and soft copies match, a request letter, and the BharatKosh fee receipt. Your notice is printed in Part IV of the Gazette of India, published every Saturday, and you download the PDF from egazette.gov.in.

A quick note on order: the affidavit always comes first, because both the newspaper ad and the gazette file copy their details from it.

The screen everyone gets stuck on

How to Pay the Gazette Fee on BharatKosh: The Exact Codes

Every DIY applicant has to make this payment, and almost every one of them stalls on the dropdowns. The Department of Publication publishes the exact values in a steps document that nobody links. Here they are, ready to copy.

Quick Answer

Go to bharatkosh.gov.in, choose Quick Payment / Non-Registered Users (no login needed), select the Ministry Housing and Urban Affairs and the purpose "Sale Of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi)". The accounting head is 005800102000000, SALE OF GAZETTES, the PAO is 042709, Pay and Accounts Office (Ptg.) and the DDO is 242722, Controller of Publications. Pay by card, UPI or netbanking, then print the receipt and put it in the physical file, the Department requires a copy of the receipt to be attached to the notification.

The copy-paste code table

Field on BharatKosh	What to select or type
Ministry / Department	Housing and Urban Affairs
Purpose	Sale Of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi)
Function / Accounting Head	`005800102000000`, SALE OF GAZETTES
PAO	`042709`, Pay and Accounts Office (Ptg.)
DDO	`242722`, Controller of Publications
Remarks	Fee for publication in the Gazette of India
Payment modes	Credit card, debit card, UPI, 150+ netbanking options, NEFT/RTGS
Amount	Whatever the portal shows. Do not type an amount from a website, see the fee caveat

If the DDO does not appear in the list, it is usually because the PAO above it has not been selected yet, or the page has not finished loading the dependent dropdown. Select the ministry, then the purpose, then wait for each list to populate before moving on. Controller of Publications sits partway down the DDO list, not at the top.

Why this is the only way to pay

BharatKosh has been mandatory since 1 October 2018. The guidelines say the amount "will have to be submitted through NTRP (Non-Tax Receipt Portal i.e www.bharatkosh.gov.in) from 01/10/2018 onwards".
Direct NEFT/RTGS to the Department was discontinued from 18 March 2019.
Demand drafts are not accepted, and there is no cash counter for this. If anyone asks you for cash as a "government charge", that money is not reaching the Department.
There is no urgent or tatkal tier. One ranking page advertises a "₹1,000–1,500 urgent fee". No expedited option exists in any guideline.

Keep the receipt, and keep it twice. The Department's requirement is plain: "A copy of receipt of the payment has to be attached with the notification." Save the PDF, print one copy for the file, and keep the transaction reference separately, the bank SMS is not what the counter asks for.

Source: Department of Publication, Steps to make payment on BharatKosh (PDF) · Guidelines to publish a notification in the Gazette of India (PDF) · bharatkosh.gov.in

The government's own words

The Official Seven-Item Checklist, Verbatim

Nine of the twelve pages ranking for this topic give you a document list. Not one of them matches what the Department of Publication actually publishes. Here is the official list on the left, and what it really means on the right.

What the guideline says	What that actually means
"(i) An undertaking duly signed by the applicant."	A signed declaration, separate from your affidavit. The Department publishes a specimen undertaking format.
"(ii) Original newspaper."	The whole paper, in original. Not a cutting, not a photocopy, not a PDF. Highlighted at your advertisement, and not older than one year. Buy several copies that day.
"(iii) Prescribed proforma in duplicate duly typed with signature of applicant and two witnesses."	Two typed copies on plain A4. Both witnesses sign with full name, address and mobile number, and both need self-attested photo ID.
"(iv) C.D. containing the print matter without witness portion in MS Word and type old name in place of signature."	This is a top rejection cause. The soft copy is not a scan of your form. Remove the witness block entirely, and where a signature would go, type your old name. MS Word only, no PDF, no JPEG, no scanned matter, no photographs, no affidavit.
"(v) Two self attested passport size photographs and photocopy of ID proof (self attested)."	For a minor: two photographs of the guardian plus one of the child.
"(vi) A certificate duly signed by the applicant declaring therein that the contents of the hard copy and the soft copy are similar."	A one-line signed statement that the CD matches the paper. Easy to forget, and the file will not move without it.
"(vii) Request letter along with the requisite fee."	A covering letter, with the BharatKosh receipt attached.

The consistency rule that overrides everything. In the Department's own words: "All matter in affidavit, newspaper, public notice format and CD should be same otherwise it is subjected to rejection." One extra initial, one different spelling of your locality, one comma out of place between the four documents, and the file bounces. Draft the wording once, then copy and paste it everywhere.

What counts as proof of your old name and address

The Department publishes a separate list of acceptable documents, which almost nobody links.

Proof of old name	Proof of address
Passport, Aadhaar, Ration Card, Voter Card, Driving Licence, Central or State Government ID card, PAN, Birth Certificate, Class 10 or 12 certificate	All of those, plus an electricity, water, telephone or gas bill not older than 3 months, or a rent agreement with a copy of the landlord's PAN. For a minor, the parents' ID proofs

Two rules that surprise people. First: "The documents once submitted in this department will not be returned in any circumstances." Whatever you hand over is gone, keep your own copies of everything. Second, if your file is found deficient you get six months to make good the shortcomings, and a case not cured within six months is cancelled.

Sources: Adult guidelines · Minor guidelines · Name & Gender guidelines · List of acceptable documents

Fact check

What Other Websites Get Wrong About Name Change in Delhi

We read the pages ranking for this topic, and the same errors travel from site to site. Here is what they say, against the verified position, so your file is not built on a myth.

What many websites say	The verified fact
"You are not eligible if you have any pending legal issue or case"	Ranking pages print this as an eligibility rule, and it is invented. The Department of Publication asks for no clean-case certificate. What the law requires is that the change is not made with fraudulent intent, which your affidavit itself declares.
"The affidavit must be signed by an advocate or magistrate"	A Notary Public attests the affidavit. No advocate signature and no magistrate hearing is needed for a standard adult name change.
"The Central Gazette is run by the Directorate of Government Printing and Stationery, Central Government Delhi"	That name belongs to state printing departments. The Central Gazette is run by the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054.
"Attach a demand draft of Rs 1,100 with the file"	The Department stopped demand drafts and cash long ago. Payment is online through BharatKosh (NTRP) only, and the fee is non-refundable.
"Your printed gazette copy will arrive by post"	Printed copies stopped from 1 October 2015. You download the PDF yourself from egazette.gov.in (Part IV, published every Saturday), and it needs no certification or stamp.
"The fee is just Rs 1,100, nothing more"	Rs 1,100 is the adult fee in India. A minor's case is Rs 1,700. From abroad it is Rs 3,500 for an adult and Rs 5,100 for a minor. A public notice or a name-and-gender notice is Rs 1,400, and a change of religion is Rs 1,700. See the full table with sources.
"Each extra alias name costs Rs 250"	There is no per-alias fee. No Department of Publication guideline mentions an alias or additional-name charge anywhere. The Rs 250 is the add-on for adopting a name associated with another religion without converting, making Rs 1,350 in total, and it comes with a mandatory non-conversion undertaking. This error was on our own page until this update, and we have corrected it.
"You must advertise in two newspapers or the gazette will reject you"	The guidelines say one: "Change of name should be advertised in one of the daily local leading newspapers." The two-newspaper rule belongs to the passport annexure, not the gazette. Two is still sensible if a passport re-issue is next. Full explanation. Source
"Submit a newspaper cutting of your advertisement"	The official checklist item is "Original newspaper", the complete paper, in original, highlighted at the advertisement, not older than one year. And it is never returned to you.
"The gazette office is on Minto Road, Delhi-110002" / "Kitab Mahal, Baba Kharg Singh Marg"	Both are live on ranking pages and both are wrong. Minto Road is the Government of India Press, which prints but does not receive applications. Kitab Mahal is a Publications Division book shop. The office is Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, and the metro is Vidhan Sabha, not Civil Lines.
"Pay on the Delhi Government gazette website" / "the fee is Rs 520"	Payment is to the Central government through BharatKosh only, mandatory since 1 October 2018. There is no Delhi Government gazette payment page for a personal name change. Exact codes here.
"There is an urgent or tatkal gazette fee"	No expedited tier exists. The guidelines publish one printing charge per category and no priority option. A page advertising a "Rs 1,000 to 1,500 urgent fee" is selling its own service speed, not a government option.
"You can complete the whole thing online"	You cannot. "Application either submitted personally or sent by Post/ Courier only will be entertained." Only the fee is online. The physical file, with the original newspaper and the CD, has to reach Civil Lines in person or by post or courier. Every "Online Gazette Name Change in Delhi" headline in this SERP is built on a false premise.
"The office is open until 5:30 PM"	Public dealing is 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM on working days, and the counter is closed on Saturday, Sunday and gazetted holidays, while Part IV itself publishes on a Saturday.
"A name-and-gender notice runs under the Change of Name heading"	It must run under the "Public Notice" heading only. The guideline says: "It should not be advertised in Change of Name heading." Get this wrong and you pay for an advertisement you cannot use. Detail here.
"Delhi has no gazette of its own" or "publish your name change in the Gazette of Delhi"	Both wrong, in opposite directions. A Delhi Gazette does exist, but it carries Government of NCT of Delhi departmental notifications, it is published by the same Central office at Civil Lines, and there is no individual name-change route into it. The precise answer.
"Any old affidavit and newspaper ad will work"	The Department of Publication does not accept documents older than one year, and documents once submitted are not returned.
"Call the gazette office helpline printed on our page"	Most "office helpline" numbers printed on blogs are private agents' own numbers, not the Department of Publication. Treat any number on a commercial blog as a sales line, and rely on the official portals for the process itself.
"Your name change will be done in 15 to 30 days"	Underpromised timelines cause panic later. Realistically the Central Gazette takes about 30 to 45 days after the file reaches the Department, plus your affidavit and newspaper time before that.
"Fix your birth certificate spelling through the gazette"	A birth certificate correction is a Registrar matter under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, through the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, not the gazette.

Why this matters: an invented rule, a stale document or a fake office name does not just delay your file, it can scare you into paying for help you never needed. Every fact in this table follows the Department of Publication's own guidelines and the official portals in our sources section.

One picture

The Whole Delhi Name Change Process, on One Page

Every number and rule below is taken from the Department of Publication's own published guidelines. Save it, print it, or send it to whoever is filing for you.

Name change procedure in Delhi infographic: notarised affidavit on Rs 10 stamp paper, one newspaper advertisement, BharatKosh payment and the seven-item file at the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, published in Part IV of the Gazette of India every Saturday. Adult Rs 1,100, minor Rs 1,700 in India; Rs 3,500 and Rs 5,100 from abroad. — Infographic: the name change procedure in Delhi, from the notarised affidavit on Rs 10 stamp paper and a single newspaper advertisement, through the BharatKosh payment and the seven-item file lodged at the Department of Publication in Civil Lines, to publication in Part IV of the Gazette of India on a Saturday and the free download from egazette.gov.in. Printed charges are Rs 1,100 for an adult and Rs 1,700 for a minor in India, and Rs 3,500 and Rs 5,100 respectively from abroad. There is no per-alias fee; the Rs 250 add-on applies to adopting a name of another religion without converting.

Checklist

Documents Required for Name Change in Delhi

Keep these ready. Missing or mismatched papers are the top reason files get rejected at Civil Lines.

Document	Needed?	Notes
Notarised name change affidavit (original)	Yes	On Rs 10 stamp paper
Old name ID proof	Yes	Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID or passport, self-attested
Delhi address proof	Yes	Utility bill, rent agreement or similar
Two passport-size photos	Yes	Self-attested
Full copies of both newspaper ads	Yes	One Hindi and one English
Typed proforma with two witnesses	Yes	Signed by you and witnesses
Soft copy on CD (MS Word)	Yes	Without the witness column
Matching certificate + request letter	Yes	With the BharatKosh fee receipt
Marriage certificate	If applicable	For a surname change after marriage
Divorce papers	If applicable	For restoring your maiden name
Birth certificate	If applicable	For a minor's name change
Deed (MHA format)	If applicable	For government employees

If you live abroad, your deed must be attested by the Indian Embassy or High Commission of that country.

Real, verified costs

Name Change Fees in Delhi (2026)

Old blogs still quote Rs 700 to Rs 900. Those figures are outdated. Here are the real numbers.

What you are publishing	Printed charge	Effective range printed on the guideline	Official source
Change of name, adult, in India	Rs 1,100	w.e.f. 01/04/2016 to 31/03/2017	Adult guidelines PDF
Change of name, adult, living abroad	Rs 3,500	w.e.f. 01/04/2016 to 31/03/2017	Adult guidelines PDF
Change of name, minor, in India	Rs 1,700	01.04.2016 to 31.03.2017	Minor guidelines PDF
Change of name, minor, living abroad	Rs 5,100	01.04.2016 to 31.03.2017	Minor guidelines PDF
Public Notice (general)	Rs 1,400	w.e.f. 01.04.2016 to 31.03.2017	Public Notice guidelines PDF
Change of name and gender in Public Notice	Rs 1,400	2016–17 window	Name & Gender guidelines PDF
Change of religion	Rs 1,700	w.e.f. 01.04.2016 to 31.03.2017	Weekly Gazette advertisement PDF
Adopting a name of another religion without converting	Rs 1,100 + Rs 250 = Rs 1,350	stated as the cost of "such type of advertisement"	Adult guidelines PDF
Stamp paper (Delhi)	About Rs 10	None	Stamp vendor
Notary attestation	About Rs 50 to Rs 500	None	Notary Public
Newspaper advertisement	About Rs 500 to Rs 3,500	None	The newspaper or its booking agent. One is required, see below

Realistic total: about Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,500 for an adult, done correctly the first time, if you run one newspaper advertisement rather than two.

The caveat every other Delhi page leaves out, and it matters. Look at the third column. Every single fee the Department of Publication publishes is printed as valid "w.e.f. 01/04/2016 to 31/03/2017", a window that closed more than nine years ago. The Department has never issued a replacement schedule; the guideline PDFs were refreshed in April 2025 with the 2016–17 fee text left untouched. Worse, a Department RTI file uploaded in 2026 reproduces a real applicant's BharatKosh receipt for Rs 1,650 paid on 20 December 2025 on a public-notice correction, which does not reconcile with the Rs 1,400 printed. Treat these as the last formally notified rates, and pay whatever the BharatKosh screen shows you at the moment of payment. Any site quoting you a confident 2026 price is quoting a nine-year-old PDF without telling you.

Correcting ourselves: there is no "per alias" fee. This page previously said each extra alias costs Rs 250. That was wrong, and the error is common across the whole niche. No Department of Publication guideline mentions an alias or per-additional-name charge at all. The Rs 250 that circulates is the add-on for adopting a name associated with another religion without converting, Rs 1,100 + Rs 250 = Rs 1,350, and it comes with a mandatory undertaking stating that you are not changing your religion.

Watch out: pay the government fee only through the official BharatKosh portal and keep the receipt. Do not pay cash to anyone who calls it a "government charge."

Timeline

How Long Does It Take in Delhi?

Plan for about 30 to 45 days end to end. The affidavit takes a day or two, the newspaper ads about one to two weeks including printing, and the gazette processing about three to six weeks after the file reaches Civil Lines. Being in Delhi helps at the edges, since there is no courier transit and any correction can be sorted in person.

Important six-month rule: your file must reach the gazette office within six months of the newspaper ad date. If it takes longer, the ads are treated as expired and you have to publish again.

Beyond the border

Delhi NCR Coverage: Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad & Faridabad

The NCR crosses three states, but the name change route is the same for everyone.

If you live in Noida or Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), Gurgaon or Faridabad (Haryana), you follow the identical three steps. The only differences are small: use your own state's stamp paper value and newspapers that circulate in your city. The file still goes to the same Central Gazette office at Civil Lines, Delhi.

We cover the entire NCR with document pickup and delivery, so whether you are in Sector 62 Noida, DLF Gurgaon, Indirapuram or Faridabad, you get the same doorstep service as central Delhi.

Moved here from another state, or helping family back home? We keep dedicated state guides too: see the full name change procedure in Punjab and the name change procedure in Maharashtra, the name change procedure in Rajasthan and the name change procedure in Uttar Pradesh, both with their own state gazette routes covered.

Every document

Name Change Services We Handle in Delhi

A gazette on its own is only useful once your other records match it. We help you update your new name across all the documents that matter for Delhi residents.

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Aadhaar Card

Name change or spelling correction with the gazette as proof.

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PAN Card

Name update through the NSDL or UTIITSL route.

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Voter ID (EPIC)

Name correction on the electoral roll via Form 8.

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Passport

Re-issue with your new name at the Delhi passport offices using the gazette.

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Driving Licence

Name update at the Delhi RTO with the gazette copy.

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Bank & KYC

Update your name across bank accounts and KYC records.

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CBSE & DU

Records for CBSE, Delhi University and other universities.

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Birth Certificate

Correction through the MCD Registrar under the RBD Act, not the gazette.

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LIC & Insurance

Name change on policies and insurance records.

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Ration Card & Property

Updates on ration card and property documents.

Tell us which documents you need updated. Call 9540005026 and we guide you through each one after the gazette.

Across the city

Areas in Delhi We Serve

We handle name change work for people all across Delhi, with doorstep pickup and delivery. Wherever you are, the process runs the same way.

From Burari, Civil Lines and Model Town to Rohini, Pitampura and Ashok Vihar, the legal steps are identical, because a name change runs on paperwork, not on which part of Delhi you live in. The only difference here is a happy one: the Central Gazette office itself is in Civil Lines, so in-person submission is a metro ride away, and birth certificate corrections stay with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

Burari Civil Lines Model Town Rohini Pitampura Ashok Vihar Karol Bagh Connaught Place Laxmi Nagar Preet Vihar Mayur Vihar Shahdara Dilshad Garden Janakpuri Rajouri Garden Punjabi Bagh Uttam Nagar Dwarka Saket Hauz Khas Lajpat Nagar Vasant Kunj

Do not see your area? We still cover it. Call 9540005026 and we will confirm.

Next step

After the Gazette: Update Your Records

Once your name change is published, use the gazette PDF to update your other records. This is the final and often the slowest part, so start early.

Document	How to update
Aadhaar	Update at an Aadhaar Seva Kendra with the gazette as proof
PAN	Apply for name correction through NSDL or UTIITSL
Passport	Apply for re-issue at a Delhi PSK with the gazette and ads
Driving licence	Visit the Delhi RTO with the gazette copy
Bank accounts	Visit your branch with the gazette, affidavit and ID
Voter ID	Submit Form 8 for correction
CBSE / DU records	Contact your board or university with the gazette
Employer records	Inform HR with the gazette copy

Keep 10 to 15 printouts of the gazette, because every office will want its own copy. We can also handle these updates for you.

Special cases

Marriage, Divorce, Minors & Spelling

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After marriage

Add your marriage certificate to the file. The affidavit states your maiden name and married name. The three steps stay the same.

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After divorce

You can return to your maiden name through the same process. Keep your divorce papers ready. No separate court order is needed just to restore a maiden name.

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For a minor

The parent or guardian signs the affidavit and applies with the child's birth certificate. The Central Gazette fee is Rs 1,700.

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Spelling correction

The affidavit states the wrong spelling and the correct one. A birth certificate correction goes through the MCD Registrar under the RBD Act, not the gazette.

Four different rulebooks

Special Cases: Government Employees, Transgender Applicants, Religion and Minors

These are not variations on the ordinary process. Each has its own published guideline, its own fee and its own way of failing. Almost no other Delhi page separates them properly.

If you are a Central Government employee

You do not use the ordinary affidavit route. The Department of Publication publishes a specific "Deed for Central Government Employees for changing name or surname", and it cites two office memoranda by number: DoPT O.M. No. 190016/1/87-Estt. dated 12 March 1987 and MHA O.M. No. 60/274/48-Estt. dated 3 November 1948, as amended on 24 March 1952.

The requirement that gets these files rejected. The deed must be witnessed by two gazetted officers of your own department or ministry, with signature, designation, official address, rubber stamp and contact number. Not a notary. Not two friends. Two gazetted officers from where you work. The Department's own objection letters spell this out as "attested by Two Gazetted Officer of your department with rubber stamp". Line up your two witnesses before you draft anything else, because they are the hardest part of the file to arrange.

The deed also states that execution "should be followed by publication of the change in a prominent local newspaper as well as in the Gazette of India at the Govt. employee's own expense." So for this one class of applicant, gazette publication genuinely is required rather than optional, and the department does not pay for it.

Download the official deed format (PDF)

If you are changing name and gender together

This is a separate track with its own guideline and its own fee of Rs 1,400, and it has one rule that nobody publishes and that silently sinks applications.

The advertisement must run under the heading "Public Notice", not "Change of Name". The guideline states it directly: "It should not be advertised in Change of Name heading." If your newspaper prints it in the change-of-name column, the file will not be accepted, and you will have paid for an advertisement you cannot use. Tell the newspaper's classifieds desk explicitly, in writing, which heading you need.

One recent advertisement in a daily local or national newspaper, in English or Hindi, and the matter itself in English or Hindi. Note that this language rule appears only in this guideline, the ordinary adult guideline specifies no language at all.
GID documentation from the hospital or CMO where treatment was carried out, plus photo ID for the applicant and both witnesses.
The CD must contain no scanned matter, no signatures, no witness details, no photographs and no affidavit content.

There is also an entirely separate statutory route that does not require a newspaper advertisement at all: under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, following NALSA v. Union of India (2014), you can apply to the District Magistrate for a certificate of identity, and for a revised certificate after gender confirmation surgery. That certificate supports a change of name and gender in official records as a matter of right. Consider which of the two routes your downstream authorities actually want before spending money on either.

Official name and gender guidelines (PDF)

If your new name is associated with another religion

Two completely different things get confused here, and they cost different amounts.

What you are doing	Charge	The catch
Adopting a name or surname associated with another religion, without converting	Rs 1,100 + Rs 250 = Rs 1,350	You must file an undertaking containing the sentence confirming that you are not changing your religion. This is the real source of the "Rs 250" figure that circulates as an "alias fee"
Actually changing your religion	Rs 1,700	A different guideline and a different published charge entirely

If you are filing for a child

The parent or guardian signs the undertaking, not the child. The file needs two photographs of the guardian plus one of the minor, and the newspaper advertisement must give the guardian's name, the father's or husband's name, the residential address and the minor's age. The charge is Rs 1,700 in India and Rs 5,100 from abroad, and that Rs 5,100 figure appears on no other Delhi page we could find, which means every NRI parent reading those pages is being under-quoted.

Official minor guidelines (PDF)

When it goes wrong

The Gazette Printed Your Name Wrong. Now What?

Twelve pages rank for this topic. One of them gives this a single sentence. The rest say nothing at all, which is unhelpful at the exact moment a reader is panicking.

Quick Answer

Apply for a corrigendum within six months of the date of publication. If the mistake was the government press's, there is no charge. If the mistake came from your own submitted papers, you pay the charges then in force and submit a fresh set of documents. There is no separate corrigendum form, it goes through as a request letter with a fresh document set, to the same office.

What to do, in order

Compare your submitted proforma against the printed gazette, character by character. This decides everything that follows: if your proforma was right and the gazette is wrong, the press erred and the correction is free.
Call before you write. The extensions the Department designates for change-of-name and public-notice work are 221 and 222. Describe the error and ask what they want in the file.
Write a request letter quoting the gazette number, the part, the page and the date of publication, and stating precisely what was printed versus what it should say.
Attach a fresh document set if the error was yours, and, if so, expect to pay again at the rate then in force.
Do not let it drift. The six-month clock runs from publication, not from when you noticed.

We are going to be honest about a gap rather than fill it with invention. The Department of Publication publishes no corrigendum form and no corrigendum fee schedule. We checked every guideline it publishes. The rule is "current charges", and the Department has not published a current charge for anything since the 2016–17 window lapsed. If a website shows you a confident corrigendum fee and a form number, it made them up.

This is precisely why the CD rule matters so much. Most misprints are not press errors at all, they come from a soft copy that did not match the paper copy, so the typesetter set what the CD said. Get step 2 of the checklist right and you will almost never need this section.

Source: Guidelines to publish a notification in the Gazette of India (PDF)

Expert insights

Three Things the Experienced Know

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Mind the six-month window

Publish the ads only when you are ready to file, because your file must reach Civil Lines within six months of the ad date, or you pay for the ads again.

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Match your name letter for letter

The single reason files fail is a spelling gap between the affidavit, the newspaper ads and the ID proof. Pick one exact spelling, including initials and spacing, and use it everywhere.

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Know the birth certificate exception

A spelling fix on a birth certificate is not a gazette job. It goes through the MCD Registrar under the RBD Act. For a CBSE school name change, you may also need a court order along with the gazette.

Honest view

Benefits & Drawbacks of the Gazette Route

✔ The office is in your city

Delhi residents can file in person at Civil Lines and skip the courier stage entirely.

✔ Accepted everywhere

The Central Gazette is treated as final proof by UIDAI, the passport office, banks and universities across India and abroad.

✔ Digital and easy to reprint

The gazette is e-published, so if you lose your copy you download it again free from egazette.gov.in.

✕ It takes weeks, not days

Plan for 30 to 45 days. There is no official fast-track, even in Delhi.

✕ Mistakes cost money and time

A wrong fee category or a spelling gap can mean a rejection, a fresh payment and a restart.

✕ The six-month rule bites

Delay filing after the ads and you may have to publish them again, adding cost.

Avoid these

Common Mistakes to Avoid

Mistake	Why it hurts
Different spellings across affidavit, ads and ID	Top cause of rejection at Civil Lines
Filing more than six months after the ads	Ads expire and must be republished
Signing the form with the new name instead of the old name	File gets held up
A CD whose contents do not match the printed proforma	File returned
Not keeping the full original newspaper pages	You cannot prove the publication
Paying the wrong fee category on BharatKosh	Payment rejected or mismatched
Trusting a fake "state gazette" address	Delhi's route is the Central Gazette at Civil Lines
Documents more than one year old	The Department of Publication does not accept documents older than one year, so file while papers are fresh; documents once submitted are not returned

Why YourDoorstep

Why People in Delhi Choose Yourdoorstep Platform

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Minutes from the gazette office

Our Burari office is close to Civil Lines, so we hand-deliver your file and follow up in person.

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Hindi & English ads handled

We book both newspaper ads for you in the correct format, in Delhi's leading dailies.

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NCR pickup & delivery

Doorstep document pickup across Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad and Faridabad.

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We check before we submit

We review the full file before filing, so there are fewer rejections, and we handle Aadhaar, PAN and passport after.

An example of a case we handle. A working professional in Rohini needed her married surname on her passport and bank records before an office trip abroad, but her PAN and Aadhaar still showed her maiden name. She sent her details and marriage certificate on WhatsApp. We drafted the affidavit, arranged the notary, booked a Hindi paper and an English paper, paid the BharatKosh fee, and hand-delivered the file at Civil Lines. In a few weeks the notice appeared in Part IV, and she used the gazette PDF to update her passport and bank. She never took a day off. This is an illustrative example of the type of case we handle, not a named client review.

Generally People Ask to Yourdoorstep Advocates

Quick Answers to Common Questions

Do I need a clean police record to change my name in Delhi? No. Some websites list "no pending cases" as an eligibility rule, but the Department of Publication asks for no such certificate. Your affidavit declares the change is not made with fraudulent intent, and that is the legal requirement.

How fresh do my documents need to be? The Department of Publication does not accept documents older than one year, so complete the affidavit, newspaper ads and gazette filing without a long gap. Documents once submitted are not returned.

Will the gazette notification be sent to my address? No. Ranking pages still promise this, but printed copies stopped from 1 October 2015 and nothing is posted or couriered. You download the PDF yourself from egazette.gov.in (Part IV, published every Saturday), free, and it needs no certification.

Is the Delhi gazette process online or offline? Mixed, and this confuses people. The fee is paid online on BharatKosh and the published gazette is downloaded online, but the file itself is submitted physically, by hand at Civil Lines or by post or courier. There is no portal where you upload the complete application.

What are the gazette office timings in Delhi? Public dealing at the Department of Publication, Civil Lines runs 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM on working days. Reach early with the complete file if you are submitting in person.

Where is the gazette office in Delhi? Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, nearest metro Vidhan Sabha on the Yellow Line.

Does Delhi have its own state gazette for name change? No. Delhi residents use the Central Gazette, which is the strongest proof in India and is published from Delhi itself.

Can people in Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad or Faridabad use this process? Yes. The steps are identical; only the stamp paper and local newspapers differ, and the file goes to the same Civil Lines office.

Is a birth certificate name change done through the gazette? No. In Delhi it goes through the MCD Registrar under the RBD Act, not the gazette.

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Official Forms and Guideline PDFs for a Delhi Gazette Name Change

Thousands of people a month search for "gazette notification for name change PDF", "name change affidavit format Delhi pdf download" and "gazette name change form pdf". They land on lead-capture pages. The real documents are free, published by the Department of Publication, and here they are.

Quick Answer

The Department of Publication publishes a full set of guideline PDFs for individual notices, plus a specimen undertaking and a separate deed for Central Government employees. There is no single "name change application form", you build the file yourself from the affidavit, the prescribed proforma inside the guidelines, and the seven checklist items. The affidavit has no government format at all, because it is a notarial document.

Document	Who needs it	Download
Guidelines for Change of Name, Adult (Major)	Anyone 18 or over. Contains the fee, the one-newspaper rule, the seven-item checklist and the proforma wording	PDF
Guidelines for Change of Name, Minor	A parent or guardian filing for a child. Rs 1,700 in India, Rs 5,100 abroad	PDF
Guidelines for Notification of Public Notice	Public notices other than a plain change of name	PDF
Guidelines for Change of Name and Gender in Public Notice	Anyone changing name and gender together. Contains the "Public Notice heading" rule	PDF
Deed for Central Government Employees	Central Government staff. Requires two gazetted-officer witnesses	PDF
Specimen Undertaking / Affidavit	Everyone, this is checklist item (i)	PDF
List of Acceptable Documents	Everyone. Proof of old name and proof of address, including the 3-month rule on utility bills	PDF
Guidelines for Advertisement by Individuals (incl. change of religion)	Change of religion at Rs 1,700	PDF
Steps to make payment on BharatKosh	Everyone. The document with the accounting head, PAO and DDO codes	PDF
Guidelines to publish a notification in the Gazette of India	The master document. Contains the corrigendum rule and the departmental emails	PDF
All guidelines, index page	In case a link above moves	deptpub.gov.in

What you will not find anywhere, and should stop hunting for. There is no official "name change procedure in Delhi" booklet, no government affidavit format (the affidavit is a notarial document, so any "official format" PDF is somebody's template), no corrigendum form, and no fee schedule dated after 31 March 2017. The documents above are the real set.

A note on links. These PDFs are hosted on the government's own cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in CDN, which works normally. The department's main site, deptpub.gov.in, is currently serving an expired TLS certificate and your browser will warn you before opening it. That is a lapsed certificate on the government's side, not a security problem with the documents.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there really no per-alias fee?+

Correct, and this page said otherwise until this update, so we are fixing our own error in public. No Department of Publication guideline mentions an alias or per-additional-name charge anywhere. We checked the adult, minor, public notice, religion and gender guidelines. The Rs 250 that circulates across this whole niche is the add-on for adopting a name associated with another religion without converting: Rs 1,100 + Rs 250 = Rs 1,350, with a mandatory undertaking confirming that you are not changing your religion. Changing your religion itself is a separate track at Rs 1,700.

How do I pay on BharatKosh, which options do I pick?+

Use Quick Payment / Non-Registered Users, so no login is needed. Ministry: Housing and Urban Affairs. Purpose: Sale Of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi). Accounting head 005800102000000 (SALE OF GAZETTES), PAO 042709 (Pay and Accounts Office (Ptg.)), DDO 242722 (Controller of Publications). Pay by card, UPI or netbanking, then print the receipt, the Department requires "A copy of receipt of the payment has to be attached with the notification." Full walkthrough.

What exactly goes on the CD, and why do files get rejected over it?+

This is a top rejection cause because the rule is counter-intuitive. The official wording: "C.D. containing the print matter without witness portion in MS Word and type old name in place of signature." So the soft copy is not a scan of your signed form. Delete the witness block entirely, and where a signature would appear, type your old name. MS Word only, no PDF, no JPEG, no scanned matter, no photographs, no affidavit content. Then add the separate certificate declaring that the hard copy and soft copy are the same.

The gazette printed my name wrong. What do I do?+

Apply for a corrigendum within six months of the date of publication. If the error was the government press's, there is no charge. If it came from your own submitted papers, you pay the charges then in force and submit a fresh document set. There is no separate corrigendum form and no published corrigendum fee, anyone showing you one invented it. Call 011-23817823 or 011-23819689, extension 221 or 222, before you write. What to do, step by step.

What does a minor living abroad pay?+

Rs 5,100, not Rs 3,500. The Rs 3,500 figure that Delhi pages quote is the adult non-resident rate. The Department publishes a separate guideline for minors giving Rs 1,700 in India and Rs 5,100 abroad. We could not find that Rs 5,100 figure on any other Delhi page, which means NRI parents reading them are being under-quoted by Rs 1,600.

I am changing name and gender together. Is anything different?+

Yes, materially. It is a separate track with its own guideline and a fee of Rs 1,400, and it carries one rule almost nobody publishes: the advertisement must run under the "Public Notice" heading, not "Change of Name", the guideline says "It should not be advertised in Change of Name heading." Tell the classifieds desk in writing. You will also need GID documentation from the hospital or CMO where treatment was carried out. There is a separate statutory route too: a District Magistrate certificate of identity under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, which needs no newspaper advertisement at all.

Why does the department's website show a security warning?+

Because deptpub.gov.in is currently serving an expired TLS certificate. The site is genuine; the certificate on the government's side has simply lapsed, so browsers flag it and some automated tools cannot reach it at all. Nothing has been hacked and nothing has moved. If you would rather not click through the warning, every guideline PDF is hosted on a separate government CDN that works normally, and we have linked all of them in the downloads section.

How old can my affidavit and newspaper ads be?+

Not more than one year. The Department of Publication does not accept documents older than one year, so file the gazette while your papers are fresh. Documents once submitted are not returned, so keep clear copies.

Do I need a clean police record to be eligible?+

No. Some websites invent a "no pending cases" eligibility rule, but the Department of Publication asks for no clean-case certificate. The legal requirement is that the change is not made with fraudulent intent, which your notarised affidavit itself declares.

How can I change my name legally in Delhi?+

Make a notarised affidavit, publish the change in one daily local leading newspaper, that is what the Department of Publication actually requires, not two, then file for a gazette notification at the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054. Once printed in Part IV of the Gazette of India, published every Saturday, your new name is valid everywhere.

Where is the gazette office in Delhi?+

Department of Publication, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, just behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, nearest metro Vidhan Sabha on the Yellow Line. Phones: 011-23817823, 011-23819689.

What are the gazette office timings in Delhi?+

Public dealing runs 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM on all working days, that is the Department of Publication's own wording. The counter is closed on Saturday, Sunday and gazetted holidays, which is a small irony, because Part IV of the Gazette itself publishes on a Saturday. Pages telling you the office is open "until 5:30 PM" are wrong. Reach early with the complete file, because a missing item means a second trip.

What is the fee for name change in Delhi?+

Rs 1,100 for adults and Rs 1,700 for minors, paid on BharatKosh. With stamp paper, notary and two newspaper ads, the realistic total is about Rs 2,500 to Rs 6,000. Figures like Rs 700 to Rs 900 online are outdated. Each extra alias name adds Rs 250, and applicants living abroad pay Rs 3,500.

How long does a name change take in Delhi?+

In practice about 30 to 45 days from affidavit to publication in Part IV. Be aware, though, that no official processing timeline exists at all, the Department publishes no service standard for change-of-name publication, so every day-count in search results, ours included, is a practitioner's estimate. There is no fast-track and no tatkal tier. The only time limits the Department actually publishes run the other way: six months to cure a deficient file, and six months to apply for a corrigendum.

Can I submit my gazette file in person in Delhi?+

Yes, and this is Delhi's advantage. You can submit at the Civil Lines counter during public dealing hours, or a local service can hand-deliver it for you.

Does Delhi have its own state gazette for name change?+

A Delhi Gazette does exist, in Weekly and Extraordinary editions, with its own Part IV, carried on the e-Gazette platform under identifiers like SG-DL-W-…. But it carries Government of NCT of Delhi departmental notifications, and it is published by the very same Central office at Civil Lines: the Department of Publication's own statement of functions lists "Publishing of notifications in various parts of the Gazette of India and Delhi Gazette". There is no fee schedule, proforma or guideline for an individual to publish anything in it, and Delhi's e-District and District Magistrate service lists carry no change-of-name service. Your personal name change goes into Part IV of the Gazette of India.

Is there a time limit on the newspaper ads?+

Yes. Your file must reach the gazette office within six months of the ads' publication date, or the ads are treated as expired.

Which newspapers should I use in Delhi?+

For Hindi: Navbharat Times, Hindustan or Dainik Jagran. For English: The Times of India, Hindustan Times or The Indian Express. But note that the Department requires one newspaper, not two, "Change of name should be advertised in one of the daily local leading newspapers", and the ordinary adult guideline specifies no language at all. Run a second insertion only if a passport re-issue is coming, because Passport Seva asks for two clippings. And submit the complete original newspaper, highlighted at your advertisement, not a cutting.

Can people in Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad or Faridabad use this process?+

Yes. The steps are identical; use your own state's stamp paper and locally circulating papers. The file goes to the same Civil Lines office, and we cover all of NCR with pickup and delivery.

Do you help update Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID and birth certificate after the gazette?+

Yes. We help update Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID, passport, driving licence, bank records, CBSE and Delhi University certificates, and insurance policies with your gazette PDF. Birth certificate corrections go through the MCD Registrar route, not the gazette.

Can I change my name online in Delhi?+

No, and this is the most repeated falsehood in the niche. The Department's rule is explicit: "Application either submitted personally or sent by Post/ Courier only will be entertained." Only the fee is online, through BharatKosh, and the published gazette is downloaded online afterwards. The physical file, with the complete original newspaper and a CD, has to reach Civil Lines in person, by post or by courier. You can still run the whole thing remotely by having someone deliver it for you, but there is no upload portal.

Where do I download my gazette once it is published?+

From egazette.gov.in under Weekly Gazette, Part IV, for the Saturday dates near your publication. Keep several printouts.

Do I need a lawyer to change my name in Delhi?+

No. A notary attests the affidavit. Help from a consultant mainly saves you from format mistakes and rejections.

Can I change my name without a gazette notification?+

For small local needs an affidavit may pass, but for passport, PAN, bank and job records most departments now ask for the gazette.

Which courts in Delhi can I use for the affidavit and notary?+

Notaries are available across Delhi's district courts at Tis Hazari, Karkardooma, Saket, Dwarka, Rohini and Patiala House, or we arrange it for you.

I want to change my surname after marriage. What extra do I need?+

Add your marriage certificate to the file. The affidavit states your maiden name and married name. The rest is the same.

Do I need signatures from two gazetted officers on my affidavit?+

For an ordinary name change, no, a Notary Public attests the affidavit and that is the end of it. But if you are a Central Government employee it is a different form entirely. You use the Department of Publication's published deed, and it must be witnessed by two gazetted officers of your own department or ministry, with signature, designation, official address and rubber stamp. That requirement, not the wording of the deed, is what delays most government-employee files. Full detail here.

What if there is a spelling mismatch in my documents?+

Mismatched spellings across the affidavit, newspaper ads and ID proof are the biggest cause of rejection at Civil Lines. Every spelling, initial and space must match exactly before you file.

How do I update Aadhaar and PAN after the gazette?+

Use the gazette PDF as proof and apply through the normal Aadhaar and PAN update routes, or let us handle it for you.

Will the department return my original documents?+

No. The Department of Publication does not return submitted documents. Keep your own extra copies.

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Official Sources & References

The fees, office details and process on this page are checked against official Government sources, not copied from other blogs.

Department of Publication, Government of IndiaThe Civil Lines office that publishes the Gazette of India and handles change of name notices.
e-Gazette portal, Government of IndiaWhere the published Central Gazette (Part IV) notification is downloaded, free since October 2015.
BharatKosh (NTRP), Ministry of FinanceOfficial portal for paying the Central Gazette name change fee.
myAadhaar, UIDAIFor updating your name on Aadhaar after the gazette is published.

Government fees, office timings and phone numbers can change from time to time. Always confirm current details on the official portals above or by phone before you visit.

In short

The Short Version

Changing your name in Delhi comes down to three clean steps: affidavit, newspaper ad, and the gazette notification. Delhi uses the Central Gazette, and its office is right here at Civil Lines behind the Vidhan Sabha, so you can even file in person. Publish in one Hindi and one English paper, file within six months, and expect about 30 to 45 days. The fee is Rs 1,100 for adults, with a realistic total of Rs 2,500 to Rs 6,000. Whether you are in Rohini, Dwarka, Laxmi Nagar or across the NCR in Noida or Gurgaon, you can get your name changed at your doorstep, and we update your Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID and passport once it is done.

How to Change Name Legally in Delhi (2026)

Watch: How the Delhi Name Change Procedure Works

Delhi name change at a glance

Key takeaways

Delhi's Home Advantage

File in person

Fewer delays

Local help on hand

Gazette Office in Delhi: Address, Metro & Timings

Does Delhi Have Its Own State Gazette?

What the Delhi Gazette actually is

The negative evidence, which is just as useful

Change Your Name Without Visiting Any Office

Gazette Notification Steps for Name Change in Delhi

Make the affidavit

Publish in newspapers

File at Civil Lines

Step 1: Make the name change affidavit

Step 2: Publish the change in a newspaper, one is enough

Step 3: File the gazette notification at Civil Lines

How to Pay the Gazette Fee on BharatKosh: The Exact Codes

The copy-paste code table

Why this is the only way to pay

The Official Seven-Item Checklist, Verbatim

What counts as proof of your old name and address

What Other Websites Get Wrong About Name Change in Delhi

The Whole Delhi Name Change Process, on One Page

Documents Required for Name Change in Delhi

Name Change Fees in Delhi (2026)

How Long Does It Take in Delhi?

Delhi NCR Coverage: Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad & Faridabad

Name Change Services We Handle in Delhi

Aadhaar Card

PAN Card

Voter ID (EPIC)

Passport

Driving Licence

Bank & KYC

CBSE & DU

Birth Certificate

LIC & Insurance

Ration Card & Property

Areas in Delhi We Serve

After the Gazette: Update Your Records

Marriage, Divorce, Minors & Spelling

After marriage

After divorce

For a minor

Spelling correction

Special Cases: Government Employees, Transgender Applicants, Religion and Minors

If you are a Central Government employee

If you are changing name and gender together

If your new name is associated with another religion

If you are filing for a child

The Gazette Printed Your Name Wrong. Now What?

What to do, in order

Three Things the Experienced Know

Mind the six-month window

Match your name letter for letter

Know the birth certificate exception

Benefits & Drawbacks of the Gazette Route

✔ The office is in your city

✔ Accepted everywhere

✔ Digital and easy to reprint

✕ It takes weeks, not days

✕ Mistakes cost money and time

✕ The six-month rule bites

Common Mistakes to Avoid

Why People in Delhi Choose Yourdoorstep Platform

Minutes from the gazette office

Hindi & English ads handled

NCR pickup & delivery

We check before we submit

Quick Answers to Common Questions

Let YourDoorstep handle it for you

Official Forms and Guideline PDFs for a Delhi Gazette Name Change

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