Name Change Procedure in Uttarakhand (2026) Guide

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Watch: Name Change Procedure in Uttarakhand

A quick walkthrough of the affidavit, newspaper and gazette steps, and how the Uttarakhand name correction service works.

What this video covers

Why there is no citizen gazette counter inside Uttarakhand, and where the file actually goes
The affidavit: what it must say and what the stamp duty in Uttarakhand really is
The newspaper public notice, and why one advertisement is what the Department asks for
What goes into the gazette file, and how the notice is downloaded once published

Published 18 December 2021 by YourDoorstep. Runtime 8 minutes 28 seconds. Spoken in Hindi.

In this video, the YourDoorstep team explains the full name change procedure in Uttarakhand: which gazette to choose, 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 from your school records, or you want a fresh start after a divorce. Whatever the reason, the name change procedure in Uttarakhand follows a clear legal path. This guide breaks down every step in plain words, from the affidavit to the final gazette, and shows how to get it done from home, whether you live in Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani, or a hill town like Pithoragarh.

Quick Answer

To change your name in Uttarakhand, you follow three steps. First, make a notarised affidavit that states your old name, new name and the reason. Second, publish one advertisement in a daily newspaper, English or Hindi, under a Public Notice heading, the Department's guidelines ask for one, not two. Third, file for a gazette notification. The Central Gazette fee is Rs 1,100 for adults and Rs 1,700 for minors. The full process usually takes 30 to 45 days, and you can complete all of it without visiting any office yourself.

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

Uttarakhand name change at a glance

Steps: Affidavit → newspaper ad → gazette notification
Central Gazette fee: Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor (BharatKosh)
Time: Roughly a month; about 45 days if objected
Newspapers: One daily, English or Hindi. Not two
Where to file: Dept. of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054
Gazette download: egazette.gov.in, Part IV

Key takeaways

The process has three steps: notarised affidavit, newspaper ad, then gazette notification.
For a passport, PAN, Aadhaar, bank or job records, the Central Gazette (Gazette of India) is the safe choice, valid all over India and abroad.
The Central Gazette office is in Delhi, not in Uttarakhand. You do not need to travel there.
Central Gazette fee: Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor, paid online on BharatKosh.
The Uttarakhand Rajpatra exists, but it has no citizen route for a name change, no form, no fee, no counter. Its name entries are government servants routed through their own department.
Newspapers needed: one. The Department's guidelines say one advertisement only, English or Hindi. "Two papers, one of each" is an agent convention, not the rule.
Affidavit stamp duty in Uttarakhand is Rs 10, fixed by the state's own schedule.
If the Department raises an objection you have six months to answer it, or the case is cancelled and you pay again.
Living in a hill district like Pithoragarh or Uttarkashi does not change anything. The full process can run remotely.

Good news first

Change Your Name Without Going Anywhere

Name change procedure in Uttarakhand handled remotely, affidavit, newspaper public notice and Central Gazette filing, with no office visit

Yes, and for a hill state this matters more than anywhere else. A legal name change in India runs on paperwork, not office visits. There is no single name change office you must line up at in Uttarakhand, and you do not have to come down to Delhi either.

The only place a Central Gazette file must physically reach is the Department of Publication in Delhi, which happens to be the city where our own office sits. So the plan is simple. You share your details from your home, even a village in Uttarkashi or Chamoli. We prepare the affidavit, book the newspaper advertisement, pay the government fee, and courier the complete file to the Gazette office in Delhi. Once it is published, we send you the gazette PDF. You never leave your town.

Choose the right route

State Gazette or Central Gazette for Uttarakhand?

This is the part that trips people up, and almost every website gets it wrong. Yes, Uttarakhand has its own gazette, the Uttarakhand Rajpatra. No, you cannot use it to change your name.

The Uttarakhand Gazette is printed by the Government Press, Ramnagar Industrial Estate, Roorkee 247667 (phone 01332-358190), under the Directorate of Printing & Stationery. Its own website says who it prints for: the Uttarakhand Legislature, government departments, the Election Commission of India, the State Election Commission and the High Court. Its own site says it publishes two kinds of gazette: an Ordinary Gazette and an Extraordinary Gazette for matters needing immediate effect.

What it does not publish is a citizen's name change. There is no application form, no fee schedule, no counter and no turnaround time for a private name-change notice anywhere on the Government Press website or on the state's own gazette portal at gazettes.uk.gov.in. We checked the portal's category list, it runs from "Advertisement" to "Transfer" and contains no name-change category at all.

The Rajpatra does occasionally carry a heading that reads naam-parivartan. Those are government servants whose service records were corrected through their own administrative department under Para 250 of the Manual of Government Orders, for example the Uttarakhand Gazette of 31 July 2025, in which the Finance Department notified a name correction in the service record of a Finance Controller in Dehradun. That route runs through a department, not through a counter you can walk up to.

Point	Uttarakhand Rajpatra (State Gazette)	Central Gazette of India, Part IV
Printed by	Government Press, Roorkee (Printing & Stationery, Government of Uttarakhand)	Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054
Open to an ordinary resident?	No. No citizen application form or fee is published	Yes. Any Indian citizen may apply
Government fee	None published for citizens	Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor, paid on BharatKosh (NTRP)
What it actually carries	Government orders, appointments, transfers, notifications; name entries only for government servants via their department	Individual name change, public notice, change of religion, adoption
Accepted by	State departments, for their own records	Passport, PAN, Aadhaar, banks, PSU employers, embassies, all over India and abroad
How you apply	Not applicable for a private individual	File sent to Civil Lines, Delhi, by post or courier, or handed in personally

The honest answer: a resident of Uttarakhand who wants a legal name change uses the Central Gazette of India, Part IV. There is no state alternative to weigh it against. Any page that quotes you a "Uttarakhand State Gazette fee" of Rs 200 to Rs 500 has invented it, no such fee exists in any Uttarakhand government publication.

The process

The 3 Legal Steps

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

1

Make the affidavit

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

2

Publish the notice

One advertisement in a daily newspaper, English or Hindi, under a Public Notice heading. Anyone who objects gets their chance here.

3

Get the gazette

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.

Infographic: name change procedure in Uttarakhand, no state gazette route for citizens, the three steps of affidavit, one newspaper public notice and Gazette of India Part IV, the published fee schedule from Rs 1,100 to Rs 5,100, the 30 and 45 day processing times, the six-month objection deadline, and four common myths corrected — The Uttarakhand name change process on one page: the three steps, every published fee, the two deadlines that decide your case, and the four claims other pages get wrong.

Step 1: Make the name change affidavit

An affidavit is a short sworn statement on non-judicial stamp paper. 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.

The stamp duty in Uttarakhand is Rs 10. That is not a guess. The Stamp & Registration Department of Uttarakhand publishes a duty chart, and row 24, Registration of Affidavit (Article 4), reads "Stamp Duty Payable Rs 10 Only". The Rs 100 shown in the same row is the registration fee, which applies only if you actually register the affidavit; a name-change affidavit normally is not registered. So if someone quotes you Rs 100 or Rs 500 "for the stamp paper", they are quoting their own margin. Vendors commonly sell Rs 20, Rs 50 and Rs 100 sheets and over-stamping is legally harmless, it is just not required.

Uttarakhand runs e-stamping under the Uttarakhand Stamp Rules 2012 and the 2015 amendment, and the Department of Stamps and Registration publishes an official List of Authorised e-Stamp Vendors with over 1,200 entries covering Dehradun, Haridwar, Roorkee, Rishikesh, Nainital, Haldwani, Kashipur, Almora, Rudraprayag, Chamoli, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh. Any listed Authorised Collection Centre can issue you an e-stamp.

On the notary: notaries in India are appointed by the Central Government and by State Governments, and they sit at the district court and tehsil complexes. There is no citizen-facing "find a notary near me" directory, the Government of India's notary portal states that its online services are for Central Notaries only. Ask to see the notary's Certificate of Practice and registration number rather than trusting a signboard.

One thing worth knowing before you spend on this: the Department of Publication's own guidelines never mention an affidavit, stamp paper or a notary at all. What the gazette file actually needs is the Department's own Undertaking proforma. The notarised affidavit is what banks, UIDAI, RTOs, schools and employers ask for, which is why almost everyone makes one anyway, but it is a customary evidentiary document, not a statutory form under any Act. There is no prescribed statutory format for it.

Step 2: Publish the change in a newspaper

One advertisement, in one daily newspaper, English or Hindi. It must appear under a Public Notice heading and carry your old name, new name, father's or husband's name, and full residential address. You send the newspaper in original, the whole page, masthead and date visible. The "two papers, one Hindi and one English" rule you will read elsewhere is not in any Department guideline; see the newspaper section for the exact wording and for when a second advertisement is still worth taking.

Step 3: Get the gazette notification

Now the file goes to The Controller of Publication, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, near Vidhan Sabha Metro Station. It includes the undertaking, the original newspaper, the typed proforma in duplicate with two witnesses, a CD carrying the print matter in MS Word, a certificate that the hard copy and soft copy match, two self-attested passport photos, self-attested photo ID, and a request letter with the fee receipt.

Public dealing hours at the Department are 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm on working days, closed on Saturdays, Sundays and gazetted holidays. Your notice is printed in Part IV of the Gazette of India, published weekly, and you then download the PDF yourself from egazette.gov.in, the guidelines say so in as many words: "The applicant is requested to download his/her gazette from the website www.egazette.gov.in." No physical gazette copy is posted to you. The PDF is your legal proof and needs no stamp or attestation.

Two things nobody tells you. First, the fee is payable only through BharatKosh (NTRP), the guidelines have said so since 01/10/2018, and demand draft, cheque, cash and postal order are not accepted for a Part IV name change. Second, your documents must not be older than one year when the file reaches the Department. A file assembled slowly over a monsoon can age out of that window.

A quick note on order: some sites list the newspaper ad before the affidavit. In real practice the affidavit comes first, because both the newspaper ad and the gazette file copy their details from it.

Where to file

Gazette Office in Uttarakhand: Where Is It?

Short answer: for the Central Gazette, there is no separate office inside Uttarakhand. The office is the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, and your file is sent there from your town.

What this video covers

The address people search for as the "gazette office in Uttarakhand", and why it does not exist
The Government Press at Roorkee: what it prints, and who it prints for
The correct Department of Publication address in Delhi, and its public dealing hours
How a file reaches it from a hill district without anyone travelling

Published 3 May 2024 by YourDoorstep. Runtime 5 minutes 24 seconds. Spoken in Hindi.

Watch out for wrong addresses: some websites print a fake line like "Civil Lines, Uttarakhand-110054." That address does not exist. The pincode 110054 belongs to Delhi, a Uttarakhand address cannot carry it. Others print "Secretariat Building, Behind Old, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054", which is a garbled copy: there is no Secretariat Building in it. The correct office is the Controller of Publication, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, near Vidhan Sabha Metro Station.

The two Uttarakhand offices people mix up

The Government Press at Roorkee (Ramnagar Industrial Estate, Haridwar district) prints the Uttarakhand Rajpatra. It is a printing press for government work, not a counter where a citizen files a name change. Confusingly, the Uttarakhand Board of School Education sits at Ramnagar in Nainital district, a different Ramnagar altogether, roughly 200 km away, and the place you go for a marksheet correction, not a gazette. People post files to the wrong Ramnagar every year.

Department of Publication: contact and hours

Detail	Value
Address	The Controller of Publication, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054
Main office	011-23817823, 011-23819689
Change of Name / Public Notice desk	011-23813761, 011-23810150, extn. 221 and 222
Email	pub.dep@nic.in (general), acop-dep@nic.in (Assistant Controller)
Public dealing hours	10:00 am to 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, working days
Closed	Saturday, Sunday and gazetted holidays
Website	deptpub.gov.in

A live problem, worth knowing before you panic: the Department's older address deptpub.nic.in currently fails with an expired security certificate, and your browser will warn you off it. The Department's own letterheads still print that address. The working site is deptpub.gov.in, and the guideline PDFs are served from the government CDN at cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in. Nothing is wrong with your file, it is the certificate, not you.

Public notice

Newspaper Publication in Uttarakhand

How many papers do you actually need? Fewer than you have been told.

Almost every website in this niche tells you to publish in two newspapers, one Hindi and one English. That is an agent convention, not the rule. The Department of Publication's own published guidelines say the opposite, in plain words: "One recent advertisement Only in Daily Local National Newspaper (In Original), Either in English newspaper or in Hindi Newspaper, and matter should be in Hindi or English language only." The adult name-change guideline repeats it: the change "should be advertised in one of the daily local leading newspapers."

So: one newspaper is enough for the gazette. One advertisement, in English or in Hindi, submitted in original. Not two, and not one of each.

There is one good reason to take two anyway. If a passport re-issue is your real goal, the Passport Seva instruction booklet asks for "clippings of two local newspapers or the Gazette notification", two clippings and the gazette are alternatives, not a pair. Once your gazette notification is published, it satisfies that requirement on its own. Some people still take a second advertisement as a backup while the gazette is in process. That is a choice, not a legal requirement, and nobody should charge you for it as though the government demanded it.

Which papers work in Uttarakhand

The requirement is a "daily local leading newspaper", there is no government-approved list, and anyone who tells you a specific paper is "the approved one" is selling something. Papers with confirmed Uttarakhand editions include Amar Ujala (Dehradun City edition) and Hindustan (Haldwani), which appears by name in the Central Bureau of Communication's Uttarakhand empanelment list, and in English the Dehradun-based Garhwal Post, a daily since July 2006. The CBC's Uttarakhand panel alone runs to more than 330 empanelled publications, in Hindi, Urdu, Garhwali, Nepali and Sanskrit, from Vikas Nagar and Uttarkashi to Pithoragarh, Rudrapur and Roorkee.

One trap in that list: the advertisement matter must be in Hindi or English only. A notice placed in a Garhwali or Kumaoni-language paper, in that language, will not satisfy the Central Gazette even though the paper itself is perfectly legitimate.

The notice should carry your old name, new name, father's or husband's name and full address, and it must appear under a Public Notice heading, not in classifieds or matrimonials. Keep the complete original page with the masthead and date clearly readable, the Department asks for the newspaper in original, so a photocopy or a cutting with the date trimmed off is what gets a file objected to.

Important: send the full original newspaper page, not a cut-out advert and not a photocopy. Buy two or three copies of that day's paper at the stand, once the day passes, a back copy from a hill town is genuinely hard to find.

Checklist

Documents Required for Name Change in Uttarakhand

This list is taken from the Department of Publication's own guidelines, not from what agents usually ask for. Missing or mismatched papers are the top reason files get held up.

Document	Needed?	Notes
Undertaking in the Department's proforma	Yes	Signed by you in your old name. This is the document the guidelines actually name
Original newspaper carrying the notice	Yes	Full original page, one paper is enough, English or Hindi
Typed proforma in duplicate, two witnesses	Yes	Each witness gives signature, full name, address and mobile
CD with the print matter in MS Word	Yes	Without the witness portion; type the old name where the signature goes
Similarity certificate	Yes	Signed by you, declaring the hard copy and soft copy match
Two passport-size photos	Yes	Self-attested, cross-signed
Photo ID for the old name	Yes	Passport, Aadhaar, ration card, voter card, driving licence, government I-card, PAN, birth certificate or 10th/12th certificate
Address proof	Yes	Same list, plus electricity, water, telephone or gas bill not older than 3 months, or a rent agreement with the landlord's PAN copy
Request letter to the Controller of Publication	Yes	Typed on A4, with the BharatKosh fee receipt
Notarised affidavit on stamp paper	Not by the Department	Not mentioned in any guideline, but banks, UIDAI, RTOs and schools will ask for it, so make one
Marriage certificate	If applicable	For a surname change after marriage
Divorce decree or husband's NOC	If applicable	Required to go back to a maiden surname, see the special cases below
Magistrate-attested affidavit	If applicable	Where you adopt a surname different from your father's or mother's, or add a surname where you had none
Deed for change of name	Central government employees, and applicants living abroad	A separate proforma under a Ministry of Home Affairs O.M. for central government staff; an applicant resident abroad submits the deed attested by the Indian Embassy or High Commission, in original. It is not a universal requirement for everyone else

The one-year clock: the guidelines state plainly that "the documents must not be older than one year." Date the affidavit, take the advertisement and post the file inside that window. If you are from Uttarakhand but living abroad, the deed must be attested by the Indian Embassy or High Commission of that country.

No agent can hand it in for you. The guidelines are blunt: "Application either submitted personally or sent by Post/Courier only will be entertained. No other channel is permissible viz Agents, Advocates, etc." A consultant can prepare and courier your file, that is legitimate and it is what we do. Nobody can walk it up to the counter as your representative. If a firm promises "our man will submit it directly", they are describing something the Department does not allow.

Real costs

Name Change Fees in Uttarakhand (2026)

Two costs sit inside a name change: the government publication fee, and the side costs, stamp paper, notary, newspaper, that vary. Here is every published figure, with the caveat the Department itself prints.

Government fee, Gazette of India Part IV

Case	Published fee
Adult (major), resident in India	Rs 1,100
Adult, Indian living abroad	Rs 3,500
Minor, in India	Rs 1,700
Minor, applicant living abroad	Rs 5,100
Adopting a name of another religion without converting	Rs 1,100 + Rs 250 = Rs 1,350
Actual change of religion (conversion)	Rs 1,700
Public notice / name correction	Rs 1,400
Change of name and gender	Rs 1,400
Adoption of a child	Rs 1,700

The caveat every other page leaves out. Most of these amounts are stamped in the Department's guidelines as applying "w.e.f. 01/04/2016 to 31/03/2017", the Rs 250 religion add-on is marked "till date", and the Department adds in its own words that the fee "varies each financial year and varies from case to case." No later fee notification has been published. So these are the rates in the only schedule the Department has put out, not a "2026 fee list". Confirm the current amount with the Change of Name desk on 011-23813761 before you pay, because an underpaid file comes back as an objection, and then you are on the clock described below.

The other costs

Item	Cost in Uttarakhand
Stamp duty on the affidavit	Rs 10, Uttarakhand Stamp & Registration schedule, Article 4
Notary charges	Varies by notary; no government-fixed rate is published
Newspaper advertisement	Varies by paper and city. One paper is what the gazette requires
Courier to Delhi	Ordinary Speed Post or courier rates from your town
Aadhaar name update afterwards	Rs 75 at an enrolment centre (UIDAI's current charge sheet)
Degree correction, HNB Garhwal University	Rs 500 for a marksheet or degree correction after one year

Two fee myths, corrected

"NRIs pay Rs 7,500 to Rs 9,000." No. The published fee for an Indian living abroad is Rs 3,500 for an adult and Rs 5,100 for a minor. The higher figures circulating online are an agent's service price presented as if it were a government charge.

"Rs 250 extra per additional name or alias." No. The Rs 250 is real but means something entirely different: it is a one-time add-on where you adopt a name or surname associated with another religion while remaining in your own religion, Rs 1,100 + Rs 250 = Rs 1,350. There is no per-alias charge in any official schedule. If you are actually converting, that is a separate notice at Rs 1,700,.

Payment: BharatKosh (NTRP) at bharatkosh.gov.in only, and the receipt goes into the file. Since 01/10/2018 the guidelines allow no other route for a Part IV name change, no demand draft, no cheque, no cash, no postal order. NEFT appears only in the separate Part III Section IV stream, which is not your case. Do not hand cash to anyone who calls it a "government charge."

Next step

After the Gazette: Update Your Records

Once your notice is published, the gazette PDF becomes your proof. This is the final and often slowest part, so start early, and a few of these work differently in Uttarakhand than the generic advice suggests.

Record	What actually happens
Aadhaar	Demographic update, Rs 75 at an enrolment centre. UIDAI allows a name update twice on ordinary documents; past that you must go through Regional Office exception handling with the gazette notification, an old-name photo ID and the EID slip. Helpline 1947
PAN	Name correction through Protean (NSDL) or UTIITSL
Passport	Re-issue at PSK Dehradun or a POPSK. For a name change other than marriage the booklet asks for two newspaper clippings or the gazette notification, plus at least two public or school documents already in the new name. Not available under Tatkaal. After marriage, an attested marriage certificate and a joint declaration (Annexure J) are enough, no gazette needed
Driving licence	Counter job, not online. The Uttarakhand Transport Department's own list of online licence services covers new licences, renewal, change of address, change of mobile number and the international permit, name change is not on it. Go to your RTO with the gazette copy
Bank accounts	Branch visit with the gazette, affidavit and ID. Requirements are set by each bank, not by a published RBI rule
Voter ID	Form 8 for correction
UBSE board certificates	Uttarakhand Board of School Education, Ramnagar, Nainital, the board publishes a Correction FORM-A and a written correction procedure. It also issues a separate certificate for the Km./Smt. prefix, which is what many married women actually need
Pre-2001 school records	If you finished school before Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh in November 2000, your board records sit with UP Board, Prayagraj, not UBSE. A large share of adult applicants in this state get sent to the wrong board first
University degrees	HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal charges Rs 500 for a marksheet or degree correction after one year, and requires the original document with an affidavit, its form says so explicitly, "only for correction in names". Kumaun University and Doon University publish no name-correction proforma; call their examination cells
Employer records	HR, with the gazette copy. Central government employees have their own deed proforma

Keep several printouts of the gazette, because every office will want its own copy. There is no attestation to get, the downloaded PDF is the legal document.

One wording to check at the counter: the passport booklet says "the Gazette notification of the concerned State Government". In practice a Central Gazette of India Part IV notification is what Uttarakhand residents have, because the state offers no citizen route. Ask at PSK Dehradun or your POPSK before your appointment rather than after, and carry the newspaper original as a backup either way.

Special cases

Marriage, Divorce, Minors & Spelling

Four situations where the general advice is wrong often enough to be worth spelling out.

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After marriage

For a passport, an attested marriage certificate and a joint declaration by both spouses are enough, no gazette is required. Aadhaar accepts a marriage certificate too. Take the gazette route when you want the new name to hold everywhere, or when you have already used up UIDAI's two name updates.

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Going back to a maiden name

Harder than it should be. The Department requires a copy of the divorce decree, or an NOC from the husband, before it will notify a return to a maiden surname, and it will not process the change while proceedings are pending. The government defended this in Parliament in July 2024; a challenge is before the Delhi High Court. Plan for the decree.

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For a minor

The guidelines say "either father or mother" notifies the change, both parents' signatures are not a Department requirement, and neither are school records, whatever other sites list. You need the guardian's undertaking, two witnesses, and passport photos of the guardian and the child. Fee Rs 1,700.

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Spelling and transliteration

Most Uttarakhand cases are not really name changes at all. Negi and Negee, Bisht and Bist, Rawat and Rawath, Chandra and Chand, the same Devanagari name spelled two ways in Roman across two documents. Say so plainly in the notice. A spelling fix on a birth certificate goes to the local Registrar under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, not the gazette.

Adding or changing a surname: if you adopt a surname different from your father's or mother's, or add a surname where you never had one, the Department asks for an affidavit attested by a First Class Magistrate of your area, not just a notary. That single line catches out a lot of files from hill districts where a family has used only a given name.

Serving and ex-servicemen families: Uttarakhand has one of the highest per-capita serving and veteran populations in India. A civil gazette notification does not by itself correct a discharge book, a Part II Order, a PPO or ECHS records, those run through your record office and the Directorate of Soldier Welfare. Do the civil gazette for civilian records, and take it to your record office separately. We are not going to print a step list for the service side, because the Army does not publish one publicly and guessing at it would cost you time.

Avoid these

Common Mistakes to Avoid

Every one of these is something the Department's own guidelines or objection letters treat as a defect.

Mistake	Why it hurts
Different spellings across affidavit, advertisement and ID	Top cause of objection. Everything must match the undertaking exactly
Signing the proforma with the new name	The guidelines require the old name on the signature line. File held up
Sending a cutting or a photocopy of the advertisement	The Department asks for the newspaper in original. Cuttings and copies get objected
Placing the advertisement in classifieds or matrimonials	It must appear under a Public Notice heading
Advertising in a Garhwali or Kumaoni-language paper, in that language	The matter must be in Hindi or English only
Letting documents age past one year	The guidelines state documents must not be older than one year
Missing father's or husband's name, or the full address, in the notice	The notice is treated as incomplete
Paying by demand draft, cheque or cash	BharatKosh (NTRP) only, since 01/10/2018
Wrong fee category on BharatKosh	Comes back as a shortfall objection, and then the six-month clock starts
Forgetting the CD or the similarity certificate	Both are on the required list; a file without them is incomplete
Ignoring an objection email or letter	Six months, and the case is cancelled outright, see below
Believing a page that prints a Uttarakhand gazette office at pincode 110054	That pincode is Delhi. The real office is Civil Lines, Delhi-110054

The six-month cliff

This is the highest-stakes fact on the page and almost nobody publishes it. If the Department raises an objection, a shortfall in fees, a missing CD, a mismatched spelling, you have six months from the first email, phone call or objection letter to fix it. Miss that window and, in the Department's own words, "the case will be treated cancelled", no further correspondence follows, and the whole procedure with the full fee has to start again.

For someone in Munsiyari, Dharchula or a Chamoli village that is not a theoretical risk. An objection email lands in an inbox nobody checks, the monsoon closes the road, and the file quietly dies. Give the Department a phone number that is actually answered, and check the email you gave them at least monthly until the notice appears.

How long it really takes

The guideline PDFs state no processing time at all. The figures that do come from the Department appear in its correspondence: about 30 days once all documents are in order, about 45 days where an objection had to be corrected, and the name-and-gender guideline says "approx. a month time period is required as heavy posts are received throughout India." Anyone promising 7 days or 15 days is describing their own turnaround for preparing your file, not the Department's. The Department also states it is not responsible for delays at the press.

District by district

Where You Actually Go in Uttarakhand

The gazette file goes to Delhi. Everything around it, the stamp, the notary, the newspaper, and later the passport and Aadhaar, happens where you live. This is the part no other page for this state bothers to write.

Passport: you probably do not have to reach Dehradun

Regional Passport Office Dehradun sits in the Aroma Hotel Building, 12 New Road, Dehradun-248001 (0135-2652160, rpo.dehradun@cpo.gov.in) and covers all 13 districts of Uttarakhand. But the counters are spread out. Besides the Passport Seva Kendra at Hathibarkala in Dehradun, there are Post Office Passport Seva Kendras at Almora, Nainital, Kathgodam, Rudrapur, Roorkee, Srinagar and Kotdwar, with one noted as likely for Pithoragarh district.

That matters. A Pithoragarh or Bageshwar applicant is routinely told online to "go to Dehradun", a two-day round trip. Almora and Kathgodam are far closer. A Chamoli or Rudraprayag applicant has Srinagar (Garhwal). A Pauri applicant has Kotdwar.

If you live in	Nearest passport counter	Also useful nearby
Dehradun, Mussoorie, Vikasnagar, Rishikesh	PSK Dehradun (Hathibarkala)	RPO Dehradun, Doon University, district court notaries
Haridwar, Roorkee, Laksar	POPSK Roorkee	Government Press Roorkee (state gazette printing, not a name-change counter)
Nainital, Bhimtal, Ramnagar	POPSK Nainital	Uttarakhand High Court, Kumaun University, UBSE at Ramnagar
Haldwani, Kaladhungi	POPSK Kathgodam	Largest commercial hub of Kumaon; most newspaper booking offices
Udham Singh Nagar: Rudrapur, Kashipur, Sitarganj, Khatima	POPSK Rudrapur	SIDCUL Pantnagar; many workers here hold UP-origin documents
Almora, Bageshwar, Ranikhet	POPSK Almora	District court notaries at Almora
Pauri, Kotdwar, Lansdowne	POPSK Kotdwar	Road access to the plains year round
Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri, Srinagar (Garhwal)	POPSK Srinagar (Garhwal)	HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, degree corrections
Pithoragarh, Champawat, Munsiyari, Dharchula	POPSK Almora or Kathgodam	A POPSK for Pithoragarh has been flagged as likely; confirm before travelling
Uttarkashi	PSK Dehradun	Longest single journey in the state for passport work

Counter locations and jurisdictions change. Confirm on passportindia.gov.in or by calling RPO Dehradun before you travel, especially from a hill district, where a wasted trip costs a day and a half.

Stamp paper, notary and the newspaper

The e-stamp comes from any Authorised Collection Centre on the state's published vendor list, there are over 1,200 of them, and the list covers hill districts as well as the plains. The notary sits at the district court or tehsil complex. The newspaper booking is the one thing genuinely easier in the plains: Dehradun, Haldwani, Haridwar and Rudrapur have walk-in booking offices for the major dailies, while from a hill town the ad is normally booked by phone or through an agency.

Hill logistics

Doing This From a Hill District

Ten of Uttarakhand's thirteen districts are hill districts, only Dehradun, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar sit in the plains. The process is the same; the timing is not.

Nothing about this requires travelling to Delhi

The Department accepts a file "submitted personally or sent by Post/Courier only." Post and courier are explicitly allowed. So the physical distance from Dharchula to Civil Lines is a Speed Post question, not a travel question. What you cannot do is send an agent to the counter as your representative, that channel is closed, for everyone.

Three clocks that run at once

The one-year clock. No document in the file may be older than a year when it arrives. Affidavit in March, advertisement in April, file posted in September is fine. Affidavit last winter, posted next autumn is not.
The six-month clock. From the Department's first objection contact. In a hill district with patchy connectivity, this is the one that actually kills files.
The monsoon. July to September, road closures and landslides on the Pithoragarh, Chamoli and Uttarkashi routes disrupt both couriers and any trip to a notary or newspaper office. If you can, start a name change between October and May.

Practical order of work from a hill town

Fix the exact spelling of the new name first, in Roman and Devanagari, and use it identically everywhere afterwards.
Buy the e-stamp locally, get the affidavit notarised at the district or tehsil court on the same trip.
Book the newspaper advertisement by phone; ask the paper to post you two or three full copies of the day's edition, not clippings. Back copies are hard to get once the day passes.
Assemble the undertaking, proforma in duplicate, CD, similarity certificate, photos and ID, pay on BharatKosh, and Speed Post the lot.
Give a phone number that is answered and an email that is read. Then check both monthly.

Migrant and dual-domicile cases. A great many Uttarakhand applicants have land records in a hill village, an address in Dehradun or Rudrapur, and school records with a board in another state. If you finished school before November 2000, your board is UP Board, Prayagraj (our Uttar Pradesh name change guide covers that side), Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh, and UBSE has no record of you. Use whichever address you can actually prove with a current bill or a rent agreement, and match it across the affidavit, the advertisement and the ID.

The legal position

Is a Gazette Notification Legally Compulsory?

An honest answer, because it changes what you should spend.

No. It is evidence, not a legal requirement. No Indian statute says you must publish in the gazette to change your name. The Supreme Court in Jigya Yadav v. CBSE (2021) framed the right the other way round: an individual "must be in complete control of her name and law must enable her to retain as well as to exercise such control freely 'for all times'", locating that freedom in Articles 19(1)(a) and 21.

What a gazette notification does is give you the strongest and most widely accepted documentary proof that the change happened and was publicly noticed. That is why institutions ask for it. It is also why the Allahabad High Court, in State of U.P. v. Md. Sameer Rao (Special Appeal No. 459 of 2023, decided 22 February 2025, as reported in the legal press), drew the line this way: a court order "is a formal court order which is of a binding nature whereas, the latter is a public notice and not of a binding nature." Where a binding declaration is needed against someone who disputes the change, a civil court decree is what does the work, and that case concerned a board examination certificate, which is worth knowing if a marksheet is what you are trying to correct.

You can see the same thing in the forms. The passport booklet accepts two newspaper clippings or the gazette notification. UIDAI lets you update a name twice on ordinary documents and asks for the gazette only past that limit. For a post-marriage change, a marriage certificate alone is enough for both.

So when is it worth doing? When you need the new name to hold across banks, PSU employment, embassies and every future document; when you have used up your Aadhaar name updates; when a board or university asks for it; or when your change is not tied to a marriage or divorce certificate that can stand in for it. For a straightforward post-marriage surname change and nothing else, you may not need it at all, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a notification.

Corrections

Nine Things Other Uttarakhand Pages Get Wrong

Most pages ranking for this search are one template with the state name swapped in. Here is what they carry, and what the government sources actually say.

The claim you will read	What is actually the case
"Uttarakhand State Gazette fee is around Rs 200 to Rs 500"	No Uttarakhand government source publishes any citizen gazette fee, because there is no citizen route. The figure appears to be lifted from another state's schedule
"Gazette office: Civil Lines, Uttarakhand-110054"	110054 is a Delhi pincode. No such Uttarakhand office exists
"Secretariat Building, Behind Old, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054"	A garbled copy. It is the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, behind the Vidhan Sabha
"You must publish in two newspapers, one English and one Hindi"	The guidelines say one advertisement only, either English or Hindi
"NRI gazette fee is Rs 7,500 to Rs 9,000"	Rs 3,500 for an adult living abroad, Rs 5,100 for a minor. The higher numbers are agent pricing
"Rs 250 extra for each additional name"	Rs 250 is the add-on for adopting a name of another religion without converting. There is no per-alias charge
"Stamp paper Rs 10 to Rs 100, varies by state"	In Uttarakhand it is fixed: Rs 10 stamp duty on an affidavit
"Both parents must sign for a minor, and school records are required"	The minor guidelines say either father or mother, and never mention school records
"We will submit your file at the counter for you"	The guidelines exclude agents and advocates as a submission channel. Preparation and courier: yes. Counter representation: no

How to spot a copied Uttarakhand page in ten seconds

It prints a "state gazette office" address with a pincode starting 1100, that is Delhi.
It quotes a Uttarakhand state gazette fee. No such published fee exists.
It names no Uttarakhand district, court, board, university or passport counter anywhere on the page.
It gives a confident processing time in days. The Department publishes no service-level commitment.
It cites no source you can click, or cites only other blogs.

We would rather say "we don't know". There are things about this process nobody can source honestly: the Department has published no fee revision since the 2016-17 schedule, the Uttarakhand board's correction fee sits in a scanned PDF that cannot be read, and neither Kumaun University nor Doon University publishes a name-correction form at all. Where we could not verify something, we have said so on this page instead of filling the gap with a number that looks confident.

Across Uttarakhand

Cities & Districts We Serve in Uttarakhand

We handle the full name change and gazette process for residents right across Uttarakhand, plains and hills alike. Wherever you are, you share your details by call, WhatsApp or a short form, and our Delhi team does the filing for you. No local office visit, no long hill-road travel.

Dehradun Haridwar Roorkee Haldwani Rishikesh Rudrapur Kashipur Nainital Mussoorie Kotdwar Pithoragarh Almora Uttarkashi Chamoli Bageshwar Champawat Tehri Pauri Srinagar (Garhwal) Ranikhet Sitarganj Vikasnagar

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

Why YourDoorstep

Why People in Uttarakhand Choose Us

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In the same city as the Gazette office

We are based in Delhi. We assemble the file, check it against the Department's own guidelines, and courier it, which is the only channel open to anyone other than you. No firm can submit at the counter as your representative, ours included.

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The advertisement, done right

One advertisement, under a Public Notice heading, in the format the Department accepts, and we will tell you when a second one is genuinely unnecessary.

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A real help for hill districts

Everything runs on call, WhatsApp and a short form. No day-long travel down winding roads.

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Clear pricing

The government fee is shown separately, with no hidden charges.

An example of a case we handle. Take a common situation. A teacher in Pithoragarh needed her married surname on her passport, but the nearest big office meant a long day's travel down winding hill roads. She sent her old and new name, marriage certificate and address on WhatsApp. We drafted the affidavit, arranged the notary, booked one Hindi daily under a Public Notice heading, paid the BharatKosh fee, and filed the complete kit in Delhi. In a few weeks the notice appeared in Part IV, and she used the gazette PDF to get her passport re-issued. She never left Pithoragarh. This is an illustrative example of the type of case we handle, not a named client review.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I change my name through the gazette in Uttarakhand?+

Make a notarised affidavit, publish one advertisement in a daily newspaper under a Public Notice heading, then send the Department of Publication's file to Civil Lines, Delhi-110054. Uttarakhand has no citizen route in its own state gazette, so the Central Gazette, Part IV of the Gazette of India, is simply what this is.

What is the fee for name change in Uttarakhand?+

Rs 1,100 for an adult and Rs 1,700 for a minor, paid only on BharatKosh (NTRP). Rs 3,500 if you are an adult living abroad, Rs 5,100 for a minor abroad. Stamp duty on the affidavit in Uttarakhand is Rs 10, fixed by the state's schedule; notary and newspaper charges vary. The gazette figures carry a 2016-17 date and the Department says the amount varies each financial year, so confirm on 011-23813761 before paying.

How long does a name change take in Uttarakhand?+

The Department publishes no service commitment. Its own correspondence gives about 30 days once the documents are in order and about 45 days if an objection had to be corrected. Add your preparation time and courier time from a hill district on top of that.

Do I have to go to Delhi for the Central Gazette?+

No. The guidelines allow a file to be submitted personally or sent by post or courier, so Speed Post from Uttarkashi or Pithoragarh is fine. What is not allowed is sending an agent or advocate to the counter as your representative, the guidelines exclude that channel. A consultant can prepare and courier your file; nobody can represent you at the counter.

Is the Uttarakhand State Gazette valid for a passport?+

The question does not arise. The Uttarakhand Rajpatra has no citizen application route for a name change, no form, no fee, no counter. Its name entries are government servants routed through their own department. Uttarakhand residents hold a Central Gazette Part IV notification, which is accepted across India and abroad.

Where is the gazette office for Uttarakhand?+

For the Central Gazette, the office is the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054. There is no separate Central Gazette office inside Uttarakhand, so the file is sent from your town. Ignore any page that lists a fake Uttarakhand address with pincode 110054, which is a Delhi pincode.

Can I change my name online in Uttarakhand?+

The fee payment on BharatKosh and the final gazette download are online. The affidavit, the newspaper advertisement and the file submission are offline, but you can run all of it remotely from any district.

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

From egazette.gov.in. Search the Weekly Gazette, Part IV, for the Saturday dates near your publication. Keep several printouts. It needs no certification.

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

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

Which newspapers should I use in Uttarakhand?+

One is enough. The Department's guidelines say "one recent advertisement only", either English or Hindi. Papers with confirmed Uttarakhand editions include Amar Ujala (Dehradun City) and Hindustan (Haldwani), and in English the Dehradun-based Garhwal Post. There is no government-approved list, the requirement is a daily local leading newspaper, and the advertisement must run under a Public Notice heading with the matter in Hindi or English only.

Can I use my new name before the gazette is published?+

It is safest to wait until the gazette is out. That is the document that makes the new name official for updating your records.

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

No. The gazette file needs two witnesses, each giving signature, full name, address and mobile number, ordinary people, not gazetted officers. The one place a higher authority is required is if you adopt a surname different from your father's or mother's, or add a surname where you had none: that needs an affidavit attested by a First Class Magistrate.

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

Mismatched spellings across the affidavit, newspaper ad and ID proof are the biggest cause of rejection. Every spelling must match exactly.

Can NRIs from Uttarakhand change their name?+

Yes. The fee is Rs 3,500 for an adult living abroad and Rs 5,100 for a minor, not the Rs 7,500 to Rs 9,000 quoted on many sites, that is agent pricing presented as a government charge. The deed must be attested by the Indian Embassy or High Commission of the country you live in.

What happens if my gazette application is rejected?+

It is usually an objection, not a rejection, a shortfall in fees, a missing CD, a mismatched spelling. You have six months from the Department's first email, call or objection letter to fix it. Miss that and the case is treated as cancelled, no further correspondence follows, and the whole procedure with the full fee starts again. Give a phone number that is answered and check the email you gave them.

Will the department return my original documents?+

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

Do I really need two newspaper advertisements?+

No. The Department of Publication's guidelines say "one recent advertisement only", either in an English or a Hindi newspaper. The "two papers, one of each" rule you will read on almost every other page is an agent convention. The one reason to take a second is a passport re-issue, where the booklet accepts two newspaper clippings or the gazette notification, and once your gazette is published it satisfies that on its own.

What stamp paper value do I need in Uttarakhand?+

Rs 10. The Uttarakhand Stamp & Registration Department's duty chart lists affidavit under Article 4 at "Stamp Duty Payable Rs 10 Only". The Rs 100 in the same row is the registration fee, which applies only if the affidavit is registered, a name-change affidavit normally is not. Vendors sell Rs 20, Rs 50 and Rs 100 sheets and over-stamping is harmless, but it is not required.

Does the Department of Publication actually require an affidavit?+

Not in its guidelines. The required document is the Department's own undertaking proforma, signed in your old name with two witnesses. Neither the adult nor the minor guideline mentions an affidavit, stamp paper or a notary anywhere. Make one anyway, banks, UIDAI, RTOs, boards and employers ask for it, but know it is a customary evidentiary document, not a statutory form.

Can I go back to my maiden name after divorce?+

Yes, but the Department requires a copy of the divorce decree or an NOC from the husband before it will notify a return to a maiden surname, and it will not process the change while proceedings are pending. The government defended that requirement in Parliament in July 2024 and a challenge is before the Delhi High Court. Plan for the decree.

For a minor, do both parents have to sign?+

No. The minor guidelines say the change is notified by "either father or mother", and the proforma is in the singular. School records are not mentioned either, despite what many sites list. You need the guardian's undertaking, two witnesses, and passport photos of both the guardian and the child.

How do I update my Aadhaar after the gazette?+

A name change is a demographic update, Rs 75 at an enrolment centre. UIDAI allows a name to be updated twice on ordinary documents such as a marriage certificate; past that limit you must go through Regional Office exception handling with the gazette notification, an old-name photo ID and your latest EID slip. Helpline 1947.

Can I change my driving licence name online in Uttarakhand?+

No. The Uttarakhand Transport Department's own list of online licence services covers new licences, renewal, change of address, change of mobile number and the international permit, name change is not on it. Take the gazette copy to your RTO in person.

Where is my nearest passport counter in Uttarakhand?+

RPO Dehradun covers all 13 districts, but you probably do not need to reach Dehradun. Besides the PSK at Hathibarkala there are Post Office Passport Seva Kendras at Almora, Nainital, Kathgodam, Rudrapur, Roorkee, Srinagar and Kotdwar. Confirm before travelling, especially from Pithoragarh or Champawat.

I studied in Uttarakhand before 2000. Which board holds my records?+

UP Board, Prayagraj. Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh in November 2000, so anyone schooled before then has UP Board records, not Uttarakhand Board records. A lot of adult applicants in this state are sent to UBSE at Ramnagar first and lose weeks.

Is a gazette notification legally compulsory?+

No. No statute requires it. It is the strongest and most widely accepted documentary proof that a name change happened and was publicly noticed, which is why institutions ask for it, but the passport route accepts newspaper clippings as an alternative, UIDAI accepts a marriage certificate for the first two updates, and where a binding declaration is needed against someone who disputes the change, a civil court decree is what does the work.

Why does deptpub.nic.in show a security warning?+

The Department's older deptpub.nic.in address has an expired security certificate, and browsers warn you off it. Its own letterheads still print that address. The working site is deptpub.gov.in, and the guideline PDFs are served from the government CDN. Nothing is wrong with your file.

Can I pay the gazette fee by demand draft?+

No. Since 01/10/2018 the guidelines allow only BharatKosh (NTRP) at bharatkosh.gov.in for a Part IV name change, no demand draft, cheque, cash or postal order. The receipt goes into the file. NEFT appears only in the separate Part III Section IV stream, which is not your case.

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Verified against

Official Sources & References

The fees, documents, addresses and rules on this page trace to the sources below. Two things do not, and we say so where they appear: the maiden-surname requirement is sourced from a Parliamentary answer and press reporting rather than the Department's own PDF, and the 30 and 45 day figures come from the Department's correspondence, not from any published service commitment.

The Central Gazette route

Guidelines for Change of Name for Adult (Major), Department of Publication (PDF)Fee Rs 1,100 and Rs 3,500 abroad; the one-newspaper rule; the required document list; the one-year limit; BharatKosh-only payment; download from egazette.gov.in; the "no agents" rule.
Guidelines for Change of Name for Minor (PDF)Rs 1,700 in India and Rs 5,100 abroad; "either father or mother"; no school-record requirement.
Guidelines for Change of Name and Gender in Public Notice (PDF)"One recent advertisement Only… either in English newspaper or in Hindi Newspaper"; the six-month deficiency deadline; the fee-varies-each-year caveat.
Acceptable Proof of Old Name and Proof of Address (PDF)The exact ID and address documents the Department accepts.
Department of Publication, Change of Name guidelines indexIncluding the separate guidelines for adopting a maiden surname and for adopting a different surname.
Department of Publication, Ministry of Housing & Urban AffairsOffice address and the current guideline index. Note: the older deptpub.nic.in address has an expired security certificate.
e-Gazette portal, Government of IndiaWhere the published Part IV notification is downloaded, free.
BharatKosh (NTRP), Ministry of FinanceThe only accepted channel for the gazette fee since 01/10/2018.

Uttarakhand sources

Government Press, Roorkee, Printing & Stationery, Government of UttarakhandWho prints the Uttarakhand Rajpatra, what it publishes, and the absence of any citizen name-change service.
Uttarakhand Gazette Information SystemThe state's public gazette search. Its category list contains no name-change category.
Stamp & Registration Department, UttarakhandThe duty schedule fixing affidavit stamp duty at Rs 10, and the official list of authorised e-stamp vendors.
Transport Department Uttarakhand, licence servicesThe online licence service list, which does not include a name change.
Uttarakhand Board of School Education, formsCorrection FORM-A and the correction procedure for board certificates.
e-District UttarakhandThe state service catalogue, which lists certificates, pensions, registration and family register services, and no name change.

Updating records afterwards

Passport Seva, Application Form Instruction Booklet (PDF)"Clippings of two local newspapers or the Gazette notification"; the marriage-certificate route; the Tatkaal exclusion.
RPO Dehradun, RTI disclosure (PDF)The Dehradun office address, its jurisdiction over all 13 districts, and the seven POPSK locations.
UIDAI, list of valid documents (PDF)Gazette notification and marriage certificate as accepted proof for an Aadhaar name update.
UIDAI, updating data on AadhaarThe Rs 75 demographic update charge and the two-update limit.
Supreme Court of India, Jigya Yadav v. CBSE (PDF)On the right to control one's own name under Article 19(1)(a).

Government fees, addresses and timelines change. The Department of Publication's published fee schedule still carries a 2016-17 date and the Department itself says the amount varies each financial year, so confirm the current figure on 011-23813761 before you pay. Last checked against these sources in August 2026.

In short

The Short Version

Changing your name in Uttarakhand comes down to three steps: an affidavit, one newspaper advertisement under a Public Notice heading, and the notification in Part IV of the Gazette of India. There is no state alternative to choose between, the Uttarakhand Rajpatra has no citizen route, no form and no published fee, so the Central Gazette is simply what this is.

The government fee is Rs 1,100 for an adult and Rs 1,700 for a minor, paid only on BharatKosh. The stamp duty on the affidavit is Rs 10, fixed by Uttarakhand's own schedule. Expect about 30 days once the file is in order, 45 if something has to be corrected, and if the Department does raise an objection, answer it inside six months or the case is cancelled.

None of it needs a trip. The Department accepts files by post and courier, and for the passport step there is very likely a counter closer to you than Dehradun, Almora, Kathgodam, Srinagar, Kotdwar, Rudrapur, Roorkee or Nainital. Whether you are in Dehradun, Haldwani or a village high in Uttarkashi, you can do this from home. Share your details, and our Delhi team assembles and couriers the file for you.

Name Change Procedure in Uttarakhand (2026)

Watch: Name Change Procedure in Uttarakhand

What this video covers

Uttarakhand name change at a glance

Key takeaways

Change Your Name Without Going Anywhere

State Gazette or Central Gazette for Uttarakhand?

The 3 Legal Steps

Make the affidavit

Publish the notice

Get the gazette

Step 1: Make the name change affidavit

Step 2: Publish the change in a newspaper

Step 3: Get the gazette notification

Gazette Office in Uttarakhand: Where Is It?

What this video covers

The two Uttarakhand offices people mix up

Department of Publication: contact and hours

Newspaper Publication in Uttarakhand

Which papers work in Uttarakhand

Documents Required for Name Change in Uttarakhand

Name Change Fees in Uttarakhand (2026)

Government fee, Gazette of India Part IV

The other costs

Two fee myths, corrected

After the Gazette: Update Your Records

Marriage, Divorce, Minors & Spelling

After marriage

Going back to a maiden name

For a minor

Spelling and transliteration

Common Mistakes to Avoid

The six-month cliff

How long it really takes

Where You Actually Go in Uttarakhand

Passport: you probably do not have to reach Dehradun

Stamp paper, notary and the newspaper

Doing This From a Hill District

Nothing about this requires travelling to Delhi

Three clocks that run at once

Practical order of work from a hill town

Is a Gazette Notification Legally Compulsory?

Nine Things Other Uttarakhand Pages Get Wrong

How to spot a copied Uttarakhand page in ten seconds

Cities & Districts We Serve in Uttarakhand

Why People in Uttarakhand Choose Us

In the same city as the Gazette office

The advertisement, done right

A real help for hill districts

Clear pricing

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