BharatKosh Fee Payment for Gazette Name Change in Uttar Pradesh

Everything else in this process is paperwork you can see. The BharatKosh step is a set of government dropdowns that were not designed for you, and it is where perfectly organised applicants lose an afternoon. Two specific traps: the ministry option still carries an older departmental label rather than the name you are looking for, and the purpose you need sits several pages into a search result rather than at the top. This page gives the path exactly as the Department's own instructions set it out, the codes to confirm you have landed in the right place, and the receipt discipline that keeps your file moving.

Table of Contents

1. Why payment comes before posting
2. The exact path on BharatKosh
3. The three codes that confirm you are right
4. Fees, and why quoted figures differ
5. The receipt, and what to do with it
6. If the payment goes to the wrong head
7. Central Gazette name change: step by step
8. Areas we serve
9. Related guides
10. Why choose our office
11. FAQs

Why Payment Comes Before Posting

This sounds obvious once stated and it is the single commonest sequencing mistake we see. The printed BharatKosh receipt is one of the enclosures listed in your covering letter, sitting alongside the affidavit, the newspapers, the proforma and the CD. A file that arrives without it is incomplete, and an incomplete file does not wait politely for a payment to catch up. So the order is: advertisements published, proforma and CD prepared, fee paid and receipt printed, then the envelope sealed and couriered. Our documents guide lists the full envelope, and the dispatch guide covers what happens after.

The Exact Path on BharatKosh

1. Open bharatkosh.gov.in

   This is the Non-Tax Receipt Portal, the government's own payment gateway for charges like this one. No agent portal, no third-party site, and nothing that asks you to pay a "service charge" on top.

2. Choose the non-registered user route

   You do not need an account. The flow then runs through four stages: payment purpose, depositor's details, confirm information, and pay.

3. Select the ministry option

   The dropdown carries an older departmental label, Urban Development and Urban Poverty Alleviation, rather than the current ministry name. This is exactly where people give up after searching for "Department of Publication" and finding nothing.

4. Search the purpose and go past page one

   Use the search icon in the purpose field. Results are paginated, and the entry you want, Sale of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi), sits on a later page of results rather than the first. Do not settle for something that merely looks similar.

5. Confirm the function head, PAO and DDO

   Function head 005800102000000 SALE OF GAZETTES ETC, PAO 042709 Pay and Accounts Office (Ptg.), DDO 242722 Controller of Publications. If any of those three differ, stop and re-select.

6. Enter the amount, remarks and your details, then pay

   Amount as applicable to your case, remarks reading "Gazette Publication Fees, Change of Name", depositor details matching the name on your file, and then net banking, card or UPI. Download and print the receipt immediately.

The Three Codes That Confirm You Are Right

Screens change, labels get reworded, and search results shuffle, but these codes are the anchor. Match all three, function head, PAO and DDO, before you press pay, and the money is landing with the office that will process your file. This is also the answer to a question we get weekly: how do you know the payment reached the right department? Because those lines appear on the receipt you print, and the Department reads them.

Fees, and Why Quoted Figures Differ

The adult fee of Rs 1,100 is the one figure every source agrees on, and it comes from the Department's own guidance. Beyond that, published figures diverge: minors are commonly filed at Rs 1,700, some sites quote quite different amounts, and for Indians living abroad the Department's guidance states Rs 3,500 while various services quote considerably more. Rather than adding another number to the confusion, the honest instruction is this: the head is what you must get right, and the portal shows you the amount at the moment of payment. Confirm the current figure there, pay it, and keep the receipt. What you should never do is accept an inflated "government fee" from an intermediary; any office quoting several thousand rupees as the Department's charge is describing its own margin. Our cost pillar separates every line for the whole journey.

The Receipt, and What to Do With It

• Print it immediately: the transaction receipt is generated once; print a copy for the file and keep a second at home.
• Save the PDF and the transaction reference: a digital copy costs nothing and answers any later question about whether payment was made.
• Check the name on it: depositor details should match the applicant on the file, not a relative who happened to have the bank app open.
• Place it in the envelope: it is an enclosure, listed in your covering letter alongside the affidavit, newspapers, proforma and CD.
• Do not pay anyone else in cash: the fee goes to the government through the portal, in your own name, with your own receipt.

If the Payment Goes to the Wrong Head

It happens, usually because someone selected the first plausible purpose on page one of the search. Two honest points. First, government refunds for misdirected non-tax receipts are slow, involving correspondence with the accounting office, and they are almost never faster than simply paying again correctly. Second, and more usefully: a wrong-head payment does not fix itself by explanation, so a file sent with such a receipt is at risk of rejection, and a rejected application means starting the file again with a fresh payment. The practical response is the boring one. Before pressing pay, read the function head, PAO and DDO on the confirmation screen against the block above. Thirty seconds there is worth more than any recovery process afterwards.

Central Gazette Name Change: Step by Step

1. Swear the affidavit

   Notarised on stamp paper with the old name, new name, address and reason, Rs 100 to 500 at any notary in your district.

2. Publish two newspaper advertisements

   One Hindi daily of your district and one English paper, complete original pages kept for the envelope.

3. Type the proforma and prepare the CD

   Two typed copies with two witnesses, and the CD carrying the same declaration in Word without witness details, plus its signed certificate.

4. Pay on BharatKosh and print the receipt

   The path above: non-registered user, the older ministry label, Sale of Gazette on a later results page, the three codes confirmed, remarks written, receipt printed.

5. Courier the complete file to Civil Lines

   Covering letter to the Controller of Publication with your phone and email, all enclosures listed, tracked dispatch from any UP district.

6. Download from Part IV and update

   Publication in 25 to 45 days, free from egazette.gov.in, then Aadhaar, PAN, bank, passport and the certificate family.

Gazette Fees, Time and the File

The Department's checklist in one line: covering letter, affidavit (notarised), newspapers (both, original, whole pages), proforma (typed, two copies, applicant plus two witnesses), CD with signed certificate, photo ID, address proof, photographs, BharatKosh receipt.

Before You Apply: Check These

• Pay before sealing the envelope, because the printed receipt is an enclosure rather than an afterthought.
• Read the function head, PAO and DDO on the confirmation screen and match all three against the block on this page.
• Enter depositor details in the applicant's own name, and write the remarks line so the payment is identifiable later.
• Print the receipt and save the PDF, then check that the amount matches what the portal showed for your case.

After the Gazette: What Updates Next

Keep the receipt permanently with the notification, the affidavit and both newspaper pages; together they are the story of your name change and more than one counter will want to see part of it. Then run the usual order: Aadhaar at the Seva Kendra, PAN online, bank, passport, and afterwards the Tehsil certificate family, education records, licence, voter ID and property records.

What Other Websites Get Wrong

• Wrong: search for "Department of Publication" in the ministry dropdown. Right: the option carries an older departmental label, which is why the search comes up empty.
• Wrong: pick the first purpose that mentions gazette. Right: the correct entry sits on a later results page, and the function head, PAO and DDO confirm it.
• Wrong: pay by demand draft to the Controller of Publications. Right: drafts and cheques are not accepted; the portal is the route.
• Wrong: post the file now and pay later. Right: the receipt is an enclosure, so payment comes first.
• Wrong: a "government fee" of several thousand rupees. Right: the adult charge is Rs 1,100 and anything above it on a quotation is somebody's service fee.

Areas We Serve in Uttar Pradesh

The payment screens are the same wherever you sit, which makes this the one step where a phone call solves everything regardless of distance. We guide clients through it across all 75 districts, most often these:

A screenshot on WhatsApp is usually enough to unstick a payment in two minutes. Our chamber is at Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Sector 5, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow 226010, with the city guide on our Lucknow page. Call 9540003316 or WhatsApp 9540005002 from any district.

Related Guides on This Site

Every guide here is part of one connected map, so whichever counter your case lands at next, the page for it already exists:

• documents for the gazette file: the eight items, receipt included.
• the proforma format: the specimen, witness block and CD version.
• the gazette office address: where the paid-up file goes.
• the full cost breakdown: government fees and service fees, line by line.
• the gazette name change pillar: the full route, rejection causes and tracking.
• Central versus State Gazette: the destination-wise decision table.
• the UP State Gazette process: where its charges are set instead.
• the affidavit guide: the first document in the chain.
• minor name change guide: the guardian-filed version and its fee.
• name change in Lucknow: local notaries, newspapers and dispatch.
• contact the office: Lucknow office, phone and WhatsApp.
• checking your gazette status: why no tracker exists, and the seven-step Part IV search that replaces it.
• downloading your gazette copy: free, unattested and permanent.
• gazette time and fees: the stage-by-stage clock and honest totals.
• gazette rejection reasons: stoppers, slowers and the ten-minute pre-flight check.

Why People Call Us at This Screen

More calls reach this office from the BharatKosh page than from any other step, usually with the same sentence: the department is not in the list. It is, under a name nobody expects. Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, has spent five years making these payments from Lucknow.

• We talk you through the selections live: ministry label, the results page to go to, and the three codes to confirm before pressing pay.
• Your money goes to the government, in your name: we do not collect the fee ourselves, and your receipt carries your own details.
• The receipt is checked before the envelope closes: amount, name and head, all read against the file.
• Our fee is stated separately: Basic from Rs 999, Complete from Rs 1,999, never merged with the Rs 1,100 you pay the Department.

Associate office at Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow, serving all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Call 9540003316 or WhatsApp 9540005002.

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