Quick answer: No. A gazette notification publishes a declaration you are entitled to make about yourself. You may decide what you are called, so a name change works. You may not decide when you were born, so a date change has nothing to publish. Any notice printed about a date is words on a page with no effect on any record, and the offices that hold your date will not act on it. The real routes are the birth registrar, the Board inside its window, and a court beyond it.
People rarely arrive at this question out of curiosity. They arrive because somebody has offered to do it, usually for a few thousand rupees, sometimes with a sample notification as reassurance. So the answer matters in a practical way, and the rest of this page is about the situation you are probably standing in rather than about the law in the abstract.
At a Glance
| Can a gazette change a date? | No, in any state, at any price |
| Why not | You cannot declare a fact you did not choose |
| What a published date notice does | Nothing; no office acts on it |
| Common quote for one | A few thousand rupees, entirely wasted |
| Real route, birth record | The registrar who made the entry |
| Real route, marksheet | The Board, inside its correction window |
| Real route, after the window | A court declaration |
| Aadhaar | One lifetime update, against a birth certificate |
Key Takeaways
- A gazette carries declarations, and a birthday is not something anyone is entitled to declare.
- A notice about a date can be printed, and it still changes nothing anywhere.
- Being told yes usually means the seller is quoting a name change process for a date problem.
- The honest routes are the registrar, the Board within its window, and a court beyond it.
- One question stops the sale: ask which office will act on the published notice.
Where Your Date Actually Lives: Quick Facts
| Birth register | The registrar who made the entry |
| UP Board records | Your school, DIOS, then the Board |
| Aadhaar | A Seva Kendra, one lifetime update |
| Passport | Reissue against a corrected birth record |
| PAN | Online correction, after Aadhaar |
| Service record | Your employer, on the corrected documents |
| Beyond the Board's window | A court declaration |
| Gazette | Not on this list, and never will be |
Table of Contents
- Why the answer is no
- Why you were told yes
- What that published notice actually is
- The question that ends the sale
- The real routes
- Where a gazette does belong
- Central Gazette: the complete process and file format
- Areas we serve
- Related guides
- Why choose our office
- FAQs
Why the Answer Is No
That is the whole reasoning, and it is why the answer does not vary by state or office. It is not a rule somebody could relax; it is what a declaration is. A person may change their name because a name is a choice they are entitled to make. Nobody made a choice about the day they were born.
Why You Were Told Yes
Usually not outright dishonesty. Four things happen far more often.
| What happened | What it means |
|---|---|
| Your case had a name problem too | The seller quoted the gazette for the name half, and you heard it as covering both. This is the commonest one |
| The agent works from a fixed script | Every enquiry gets the same package, because that is what they know how to sell |
| The word correction was used loosely | "We do all corrections" is true of names and untrue of dates, and nobody drew the line |
| Somebody genuinely does publish date notices | They exist, they cost money, and they achieve nothing, which is the next section |
Before you conclude anyone lied to you, check whether your own case has a name issue alongside the date. If it does, the quote may have been for that, and the misunderstanding is honest on both sides. If it does not, the fourth row applies.
What That Published Notice Actually Is
The dangerous part is that it looks exactly like a real gazette notification: same format, same portal, same PDF. Clients have shown us these believing the job was done, and only discovered otherwise at a verification desk months later, by which time the Board's window had often closed too.
So the cost is not only the fee. It is the time, and sometimes the window, which is the expensive part.
The Question That Ends the Sale
It is a fair question and it is not rude. Nobody who genuinely handles these minds being asked where a document goes next. The same question works for any quote that includes a gazette fee for something that is not a name, and it is the habit we recommend most often across this whole subject.
The Real Routes
- Your birth record: only the registrar who made the entry can correct it, on evidence made near the birth. That is our birth certificate date page.
- Your marksheet: through your school and the DIOS to the Board, but only inside its correction window, covered on our Board date page.
- Your Aadhaar: a Seva Kendra, once in your life, against a birth certificate, on our Aadhaar date page.
- Beyond the Board's window: a declaration from a competent court, which is litigation and needs a lawyer.
- Everything downstream: passport, PAN, bank and employer, all of which follow once the source record is right.
Notice what these have in common: each one goes to the office that holds your date, and asks it to look at evidence. That is the shape of every real route here, and a gazette is not addressed to any of them.
Where a Gazette Does Belong
Worth saying clearly, because this page could otherwise leave the impression that gazettes are generally useless. They are not; this is simply the wrong job for one.
- Changing your name, which is the thing it was built for and does well.
- Announcing a surname change after marriage, where a marriage certificate is not enough.
- A correction notice about how a name was wrongly recorded, naming the documents affected.
- A minor's name change, filed through a guardian at the higher fee.
- Establishing a name across many records at once, which is where one publication genuinely saves money.
If your case has both a wrong name and a wrong date, the gazette handles one half honestly and well. Run the two on separate tracks, starting in the same week, and do not let one file try to carry both.
Central Gazette: the Complete Process and File Format
Our core service: this is the filing as we run it from Lucknow, for a name. Read it as the thing a gazette actually is, so you can see for yourself why no version of it produces a different birthday.
Stage 1: The affidavit
Read clause two again. "I have changed" and "I shall hereafter be known" are both statements about a decision you took. There is no honest way to write the same clause about a birthday, and that absence is the answer to this entire page.
Stage 2: The Public Notice, in two copies
Each witness gives signature, full name and address, and both sign both copies at one sitting.
Stage 3: The CD and CD-Certificate
Stage 4: Newspapers, fee, covering letter and dispatch
Publish in two newspapers
One Hindi daily of your district and one English paper, booked the day the affidavit is sworn, keeping complete original pages with masthead and date, and buying two copies of each.
Pay Rs 1,100 on BharatKosh
Before the envelope is sealed, with the function head, PAO and DDO checked on the confirmation screen and two receipts printed.
Write the covering letter
To The Controller, Publication Department, Civil Line, Delhi 110054, saying the formalities are complete and the documents are enclosed, with your mobile number and email.
Assemble, check and photocopy
Affidavit, Public Notice in two witnessed copies, CD with CD-Certificate, both newspaper pages, identity and address proof, photographs and the receipt, with a full copy set at home.
Courier it, tracked
One to three days from most UP districts, with no counter to visit.
Search Part IV after 25 to 45 days
Weekly Gazette, Part IV, a Saturday date range covering your window, then download the whole issue.
What You Are Actually Buying, Either Way
That is the test worth carrying into any quote on this subject. Ask what the document is for, and specifically who receives it. A name gazette has a long list of recipients. A date notice has none, which is why it costs the same to produce and is worth nothing at all.
Gazette Fees, Time and the File
| Adult gazette fee | Rs 1,100 on BharatKosh, for a name |
| Minor, through a guardian | Rs 1,700 |
| Affidavit | Rs 100 to 500 including stamp paper and notary |
| Newspaper advertisements | A few hundred rupees per paper |
| Gazette for a date | Not a service; any quote for one is wasted money |
| Registrar date correction | The office's application fee |
| Board date correction | Around Rs 1,000, inside the window |
The envelope in one line, for a name: covering letter with your phone and email, affidavit (notarised), Public Notice typed in two copies with two witnesses on each, CD in MS-Word format with the signed CD-Certificate, both complete newspaper pages, photo identity proof, address proof, photographs and the BharatKosh receipt.
Before You Pay Anyone: Check These
- Ask which office will act on the published notice and what they will do with it.
- Check whether your own case has a name problem too, which may explain an honest misunderstanding.
- Ask for the quote split into government fee and service fee, line by line.
- If the Board's window is closing, spend the time there rather than on a publication.
After the Gazette: What Updates Next
For a name, the order is Aadhaar, then PAN, bank and employer, then the passport with both newspaper pages, then Tehsil certificates and education records. For a date, nothing follows a gazette because nothing preceded it: go to the registrar, or the Board inside its window, and start there instead.
What Other Websites Get Wrong
- Wrong: a gazette can change anything printed on a document. Right: it publishes declarations, and a birthday is not one.
- Wrong: a published date notice has legal effect. Right: it is a printed sentence no office acts on.
- Wrong: different states have different rules on this. Right: the reasoning is about what a declaration is, so it does not vary.
- Wrong: anyone offering this is dishonest. Right: most often they quoted the name half and it was heard as covering both.
- Wrong: the only cost is the fee. Right: the months lost can close the Board's window, which is worse.
Areas We Serve in Uttar Pradesh
Quotes for date of birth gazettes turn up in every district, usually from agents who handle name changes competently and simply extend the offer. We advise across all 75, most often these:
| Western UP and NCR | Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Agra, Aligarh, Mathura, Bulandshahr, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Hapur, Firozabad |
| Rohilkhand and Bundelkhand | Bareilly, Moradabad, Rampur, Shahjahanpur, Budaun, Pilibhit, Bijnor, Amroha, Jhansi, Banda, Mahoba, Chitrakoot |
| Awadh and central UP | Lucknow, Kanpur, Unnao, Raebareli, Sitapur, Hardoi, Barabanki, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Amethi, Bahraich |
| Purvanchal and eastern UP | Varanasi, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Ballia, Deoria, Mirzapur, Basti, Ghazipur, Mau, Sonbhadra |
Candidates preparing for government recruitment are approached most often, because an age bar creates urgency and urgency is what these offers are built for. 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
Whichever counter you reach next, there is a guide for it here:
- date of birth correction: the main guide across every document.
- date on a birth certificate: where the real correction starts.
- date on a UP Board marksheet: the three windows and the court route.
- date on Aadhaar: one lifetime update and the flag to check.
- date affidavit formats: what an affidavit can and cannot do here.
- does a spelling correction need a gazette?: the same question for names.
- the gazette name change guide: the job a gazette actually does.
- correction versus change: the distinction that decides most costs.
- the full cost breakdown: government fees and service fees, line by line.
- problems and mistakes: what to do when a counter refuses.
- contact the office: Lucknow office, phone and WhatsApp.
Why We Turn This Work Away
We file gazettes every week and we could take a fee for a date notice tomorrow. We do not, because the client would come back in four months having lost both the money and, often, the Board's window. Saying no to work you could bill for is the only version of this business worth running. Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, says it on the call.
- We do not sell date gazettes: at any price, because they do nothing.
- We check whether your name also needs one: since that may be what you were quoted for.
- We point you at the office that holds your date: the registrar, the Board, or a court.
- We split any quote into government and service fees: so you can see what you are paying for.
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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Uttar Pradesh Name Change
Associate Office: Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Sector 5, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226010
Head Office: Metro Pillar 337, Hardev Nagar, Street 1, Shop No 1 (Shri Sham Documentation)
Call: 9540003316
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Email: info@uttarpradeshnamechange.com
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If somebody has quoted you for a date of birth gazette, send us the quote before paying. We will tell you plainly what it would achieve.
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Gazette and Date of Birth: FAQs
Can a gazette notification change my date of birth?
No. A gazette publishes a declaration you are entitled to make. You may decide what you are called; nobody decides when they were born, so there is nothing to publish.
Is this different in another state?
No. The reasoning is about what a declaration is, not about local practice, so it does not vary by state or office.
Somebody showed me a published date of birth notice. Is it real?
The publication may be real in the sense that words were printed. It has no effect: the registrar, the Board, a Seva Kendra and an employer will all decline to act on it.
Why did an agent tell me it works?
Most often because your case also has a name problem and the quote was for that half. Check whether your name is wrong too before assuming anyone lied.
What should I ask before paying?
Which office will act on the published notice and what they will do with it. An honest seller will explain the gazette is for your name; anyone who cannot name an office is selling a printed sentence.
What is the real route for a birth certificate?
The registrar who made the entry, on evidence created near the birth such as a hospital record, an admission form or an immunisation card.
And for a marksheet?
Through your school and the DIOS to the Board, but only inside its correction window from passing. After that the route is a court declaration.
And for Aadhaar?
A Seva Kendra, once in your lifetime, against a birth certificate. That single allowance is why the certificate should be correct first.
Is the fee the only thing I lose?
No, and the fee is usually the smaller loss. Months spent waiting for a publication can close the Board's correction window, which is the expensive part.
My name and date are both wrong. What now?
Run them separately and start both in the same week. The gazette handles the name honestly and well; the date goes to the registrar or the Board.
Does an affidavit help instead?
Only as support. You cannot swear a birthday into existence either, though a well-drafted affidavit that names your early record does real work alongside an application.
So what is a gazette actually good for?
Changing a name, announcing a surname after marriage, publishing a correction notice naming documents, and establishing a name across many records with one fee. All of those are genuine.
Official Sources
- The Department of Publication's guidelines for change of name, which govern declarations published in the Gazette of India.
- The Registration of Births and Deaths framework, under which a date is amended only by the registrar who recorded it.
- UPMSP correction practice, which accepts date corrections through the school and DIOS within a limited window.
- UIDAI's update framework, under which a date of birth may be updated once in a lifetime against acceptable proof.
Facts here are checked against these sources and our own casework, including files where clients arrived holding a published date notice that no office would accept. The limits of what a declaration can do are the stable part.
The Short Version
No, and the reason is simple enough to carry into any conversation: a gazette publishes declarations, a declaration works only when the thing declared is yours to decide, and while your name is yours to decide your birthday is not. That does not change by state, office or price. Notices about dates can be printed and sometimes are, but the registrar, the Board, a Seva Kendra and an employer will all decline to act on one, so what you have bought is a PDF. Before paying anyone, ask which office will act on the published notice and what they will do with it, because a seller who cannot name an office is not selling a service. Check too whether your own case has a name problem alongside the date, since that is the commonest honest explanation for being told yes. The real routes are the registrar for a birth record, the Board inside its window for a marksheet, a Seva Kendra for Aadhaar, and a court once the window has closed.