In India you can change your name due to a spelling mistake in a Birth certificate or other government document easily. As a wrong name is displayed in documents, it will create issues. You need to create an affidavit or Notary-cleared mention of the name spelling mistake in your government document.
There are 3 steps process for Name Change in India:
Affidavit Submission
Ad Publication
Gazette Notification
1. Affidavit Submission for Name Change In Gazette Maharashtra:
You need to contact a notary to prepare an Affidavit for name change in a school certificate. Give details like your name, new name, residential address, reason for name change (e.g., spelling mistake, marriage, Numerology, etc.). After getting the officer's signature with their stamp, keep a copy with you for future legal procedure. For Name Change, you’ll need to make an affidavit before a Notary or a Magistrate. This is when you declare to the Notary or Magistrate that the information you’re providing is true and that you’re personally responsible for your statement.
2. Ad Publication:
After making the Affidavit, you need to publish an advertisement in a local and national newspaper. You can select one English newspaper and one in any regional language. For example, if you are in Mumbai then you can select Active Times and Mumbai Lakshadeep, or Free Press Journal and Navshakti Newspaper. Just fill the form on our website and attached documents as required, after payment is done your ad will be published on the selected date in the selected newspaper. You will receive an invoice on your registered email id. Approve your advertisement in the newspaper on the selected date. Your Name Change Advertisement is published in the Newspaper on the selected date; keep a copy with you. For Name Change Ad in Newspaper for a Passport, use the same procedure explained above.
Sample of Newspaper Advertisement Classified
3. Gazette Notification For Name Change Maharashtra:
After your Gazette notification has been published the name change will be legally effective. Submit all documents to the Gazette office.
Deed changing name form
Letter of declaration reason why you are changing name
Original copies of advertisements published in Newspapers with the date
Attested Photographs
Address and Identity proofs
You will get Gazette Notification For Name Change, print the change of your name in the Gazette.