Quick answer: The route is the same as any UP Board correction, through your school to the Board, but the proof is different: it must come from your father's documents, because the entry is about him. Carry his Aadhaar, PAN or another government identity document showing the correct name, plus the school admission form where his name was first recorded. Where he has passed away, his death certificate and surviving records take the place of a live document, and the case is still perfectly workable. A gazette is usually not needed, because this is almost always a clerical correction rather than a change of anyone's name.
Forum threads about this run for pages because people apply the wrong mental model. They treat it as their own correction, gather their own Aadhaar and birth certificate, and are surprised when the school asks for something else. The Board is not being asked about you at all here; it is being asked to record a different person's name correctly. Once that clicks, the whole file assembles itself, and the harder questions, a father who is no longer alive or whose own records disagree with each other, become manageable rather than dead ends.
Father's Name Correction at a Glance
| Route | School, Principal, DIOS, Board, as for any correction |
| Whose proof | Your father's documents, not yours |
| Core document | His Aadhaar, PAN or other government identity proof |
| School side | The admission form where his name was first written |
| If he has passed away | Death certificate plus his surviving records |
| Gazette needed? | Usually not; this is a clerical correction |
| Fee | Around Rs 1,000, the Board's usual correction fee |
| Time limit | None for names |
Key Takeaways
- The entry is about your father, so his documents carry the case and yours are only supporting.
- The admission form is the pivotal school record, because it shows what the school was originally told.
- A father who has passed away does not end the case; his death certificate and surviving documents replace a live one.
- Where his own records disagree with each other, settle which version is correct before applying, or the file argues with itself.
- This is nearly always a correction rather than a change, so a gazette is rarely required.
Documents You Will Need: Quick Facts
| Father's Aadhaar | The usual primary proof of the correct name |
| Father's PAN or voter ID | Useful corroboration, especially if older |
| Your admission form | Shows his name as first recorded at the school |
| Your marksheet and certificate | The record carrying the error |
| Your Aadhaar and birth certificate | Supporting; your birth record often names him |
| Affidavit | Stating both versions refer to one person, your father |
| Death certificate | Where he has passed away |
| Board correction fee | Around Rs 1,000 per application |
Table of Contents
- Why this is not your correction
- Where the proof comes from
- The admission form, and why it matters
- When your father has passed away
- When his own records disagree
- The application, step by step
- Central Gazette name change: step by step
- Areas we serve
- Related guides
- Why choose our office
- FAQs
Why This Is Not Your Correction
That second line is what people miss. A file proving your father's correct name is only half a case; the Board also needs to see that this man is your father, which your birth certificate usually establishes, and which the school's admission form supports because he was named on it as your parent. Assemble both halves and the application is ordinary. Assemble only the first and it stalls, not because anyone doubts you but because the link has not been shown.
The wider picture across all your documents, including where his name splits differently on each, is on our father's name pillar.
Where the Proof Comes From
- His Aadhaar, the usual primary document, showing the correct spelling of his name.
- His PAN, voter ID or driving licence, which corroborate, and which carry weight when older than the marksheet.
- His own school or service records, particularly useful where the difference is long-standing.
- Your birth certificate, which names him and therefore does double duty: it shows his name and your relationship.
- The school admission form, covered in the next section, which shows what the school was told at the time.
- An affidavit stating that both versions refer to one and the same person, namely your father, with your relationship stated separately. The wording is on our affidavit drafts page.
One drafting trap worth repeating here because it is so easily missed: in the affidavit, the one-and-the-same clause must name your father, not you. Templates adapted carelessly end up reading as though the deponent is claiming to be his own father, which is confusing to a reader and slows an otherwise clean file.
The Admission Form, and Why It Matters
Of all the school-side documents, the admission form is the one that decides these cases, and it is worth asking for specifically rather than hoping the school produces it.
Finding one is the easiest case and the most common, because most errors are introduced when data is copied rather than when it is first written. Finding two is not a problem either, simply a slightly longer file: the school's own entry is corrected as part of the same exercise, which is precisely why the Principal's verification step exists. Our school application guide covers how to request these documents in writing so they actually arrive.
When Your Father Has Passed Away
This stops people, and it should not. A correction does not require the person named to attend or to sign anything; it requires evidence of what his name was, and that evidence survives him.
- His death certificate, which itself carries his name and is a government record.
- His surviving identity documents, Aadhaar, PAN, voter ID, kept by the family.
- Pension, service or employment records, often the most carefully maintained documents a family holds.
- Property and revenue records, where land is held in his name.
- Your own birth certificate, which named him at the time of your birth and is therefore contemporaneous.
- An affidavit by you, stating the relationship and that both versions refer to one person, now deceased.
Present these as a set with a one-line covering note explaining that he has passed away and listing what is enclosed in his place. Offices handle this regularly and it is not treated as an obstacle, though it does mean the file should be complete on arrival, since there is no possibility of producing a fresh document later.
When His Own Records Disagree
The genuinely difficult version of this case, and the one worth thinking about before you apply. If your father's Aadhaar says one thing, his PAN another and his service record a third, you cannot ask the Board to match your marksheet to a name that is itself unsettled.
| Situation | What to do first |
|---|---|
| His documents differ by spelling only | Choose the version his most authoritative and oldest records carry, and use that consistently; see our transliteration page |
| He uses a short form on some documents | The full form is normally the correct one; the short form is usage rather than a different name |
| His Aadhaar is itself wrong | Correct his Aadhaar first if he is alive, then apply with a settled set |
| He is deceased and his records conflict | Lead with the oldest and most formal, typically service, pension or property records |
The principle throughout: settle his name before asking anyone to record it. A file whose own documents disagree invites the reader to decide something you should have decided, and readers under pressure decide by refusing.
The Application, Step by Step
Establish the correct version of his name
From his own documents, choosing deliberately where they differ, so the target is fixed before anything is filed.
Ask the school in writing for the admission form and register page
Attested by the Head of the institution, with a receiving acknowledgment kept by you.
Prepare the affidavit
Naming your father in the one-and-the-same clause, with a separate clause establishing that you are his child.
Assemble his documents and yours
His identity proof leading, your birth certificate and marksheet supporting, and the death certificate where applicable.
Submit through the school with the Board's fee
The application is forwarded by the Principal with the DIOS countersignature, exactly as for any correction, per our main correction guide.
Track and collect
Through the portal, and check the corrected document at collection, since a father's name is one of the fields most often mistyped a second time.
Central Gazette: the Complete Process and the Actual File Format
Our core service: below is the Central Gazette route exactly as the file is drafted, in the wording the Department actually receives. Note the point most guides miss: a gazette notice can be a correction notice, not only a change of name, and a correction notice can cover a parent's name as recorded in your own documents. That is what makes it relevant to this page.
Two kinds of notice, and which one you need
This distinction is the whole reason a father's name case can reach the gazette at all. You are not declaring a change to his name, which you could never do. You are declaring that in your service record and your marksheets, his name was written wrongly, and stating what it actually is. A single notice routinely covers the applicant, the father and the mother together, which is worth knowing before paying for anything separately.
Stage 1: The affidavit
Shorter than people expect. Two clauses and a verification, notarised on stamp paper.
Name only the documents that actually carry the error, and name them specifically: service records, 10th and 12th class certificates, and so on. A notice that lists documents vaguely is harder for any later authority to act on, because the whole value of the notice is that it says where the wrong entry sits.
Stage 2: The Public Notice, in duplicate
This is the document that gets published, and it is prepared in two identical copies, each signed and witnessed. It is typed throughout.
Three things people get wrong here. Each witness gives signature, full name and address. Both witnesses sign both copies, so do it at one sitting rather than chasing a second signature later. And the closing line about having complied with other legal requirements is part of the format, not decoration, so do not drop it.
Stage 3: The CD and the CD-Certificate
The commonest reason a file comes back, and the only failure invisible from outside the envelope.
Clause three is explicit that the CD is in MS-Word format, and clause one puts responsibility for any mismatch on you. Both are reasons to check the file yourself rather than trusting whoever burned the disc.
Stage 4: The two newspaper advertisements
Book both papers on the day the affidavit is sworn, and proofread the wording before it prints. The names and address must match the affidavit and the Public Notice exactly, since the Department reads the file as one set.
Stage 5: The BharatKosh payment
Pay before the envelope is sealed
The printed receipt is an enclosure inside it, so payment comes before dispatch rather than after.
Confirm the head on the confirmation screen
Function head, PAO and DDO, read before the transaction rather than after.
Pay the correct amount
Rs 1,100 for an adult, Rs 1,700 for a minor filed through a guardian, plus Rs 250 where an alias line is taken.
Print two copies of the receipt
One for the envelope and one for your own file.
Stage 6: The covering letter
Brief, and the format is genuinely this short.
The letter itself is a formality, but add your mobile number and email to it even though the standard wording omits them. Without contact details the Department cannot query your file, so instead of being asked for a missing item you simply wait.
Stage 7: Dispatch, publication and download
Run the check, then seal
CD opens as Word text on a second machine, Public Notice typed in two copies with both witnesses on both, names identical across affidavit, notice, CD and newspapers, complete newspaper pages, payment head correct, contact details added.
Photocopy the entire file
Keep a full set at home, so a returned file is rebuilt from copies rather than memory.
Courier to Civil Line, tracked
One to three days in transit from most UP districts. There is no counter to visit.
Wait through the publication window
Twenty-five to forty-five days from receipt of a complete file. No application number and no tracker exists, so do not send a duplicate.
Search Part IV and download the whole issue
Weekly Gazette rather than Extraordinary, Part IV, a Saturday date range covering your window. Save the complete PDF and note the issue number and date separately.
Print about three copies and use it
For a correction notice, the prints go to the authorities holding the wrong entries: the Board through your school, your employer for the service record, and any certificate office concerned.
What the Notice Can and Cannot Say About Your Father
So the honest position for this page is narrower than a flat no. Where your father's name is simply wrong in your records, a correction notice naming him is normal and a single filing can settle the entries for both parents at once. Where his own name is genuinely changing, he must file for himself. Read your situation against those two lines before spending anything, using our correction versus change page.
Gazette Fees, Time and the File
| Board correction fee | Around Rs 1,000 per application |
| Affidavit | Rs 100 to 500 including stamp paper and notary |
| Adult gazette fee | Rs 1,100 on BharatKosh |
| Minor, through a guardian | Rs 1,700 |
| Alias line | Rs 250 extra |
| Newspaper advertisements | A few hundred rupees per paper, edition-dependent |
| Publication window | 25 to 45 days after the Department receives the file |
| Realistic end to end | Five to eight weeks, since preparation precedes the window |
The envelope in one line: 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 Apply: Check These
- Decide whether yours is a correction notice or a change notice, because the wording differs completely.
- Name the specific documents carrying the wrong entry, since that is what makes the notice usable later.
- Get both witnesses to sign both copies of the Public Notice at one sitting.
- Open the CD on a second computer and confirm the Word text is selectable.
After the Gazette: What Updates Next
A correction notice is taken to whichever authority holds the wrong entry: the Board through your school for a marksheet, your employer for a service record, and the issuing office for any certificate. Each still runs its own application, since the notice is evidence rather than an instruction. Keep the notification, the affidavit, both newspaper pages and the corrected documents together permanently.
What Other Websites Get Wrong
- Wrong: gather your own documents as for any correction. Right: the proof must come from your father's records.
- Wrong: nothing can be done if he has passed away. Right: his death certificate and surviving records replace a live document.
- Wrong: a father's name correction needs a gazette. Right: it is nearly always clerical, so publication is rarely required.
- Wrong: you can publish a gazette changing his name. Right: only he can declare a change to his own name.
- Wrong: apply first and sort out his conflicting documents later. Right: a file whose documents disagree invites a refusal.
Areas We Serve in Uttar Pradesh
The application runs through the district where you studied, so it follows your old school rather than your current address. We handle these across all 75 districts, most often these:
| Purvanchal and eastern UP | Varanasi, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Ballia, Deoria, Mirzapur, Basti, Ghazipur, Mau, Sonbhadra |
| 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 |
Rural districts send us the most of these, largely because a father's name written in Hindi at admission and later rendered into English is the classic origin of the error. 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:
- father's name corrections: the pillar covering every document.
- the UP Board correction guide: the route this application follows.
- when the school will not forward: the written application and DIOS escalation.
- affidavit drafts: including the parent's name version.
- transliteration mismatch: where his documents differ by spelling only.
- correction after many years: no deadline applies to names.
- correction versus change: why this is nearly always a correction.
- when a gazette is genuinely needed: and what to say if told otherwise.
- birth certificate correction: where a parent's name also appears.
- the full cost breakdown: government fees and service fees, line by line.
- contact the office: Lucknow office, phone and WhatsApp.
- father's name across your documents: mapping the split and the one-notice route.
- father's name in Aadhaar: the Care of field and its lighter rules.
- father's name affidavit formats: four drafts and who swears each.
- after adoption or a step-parent: where the record was never wrong.
- parents' names on a birth certificate: the higher bar for a record made at birth.
- mother's name in a UP Board marksheet: which of her two names belongs there.
Why We Ask for His Aadhaar First
Clients are often surprised that our opening request is a photograph of their father's Aadhaar rather than their own marksheet. It is the faster question: if his documents agree on one version, this is a clean file, and if they do not, that is the real work. Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, has run many of these, including for families whose fathers passed away decades ago.
- We settle his name first: across his own records, before anything is submitted.
- We draft the affidavit correctly: naming him in the one-and-the-same clause, with your relationship stated separately.
- We handle deceased-father files properly: complete on arrival, since nothing can be added later.
- We stop unnecessary publication: including by pointing out that you cannot publish a change to somebody else's name.
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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Father's Name in Marksheet: FAQs
Whose documents are needed to correct my father's name?
His. The entry is about him, so his Aadhaar, PAN or other government identity proof carries the case, with your birth certificate and marksheet supporting and establishing the relationship.
My father has passed away. Can it still be corrected?
Yes. A correction needs evidence of what his name was, not his attendance. His death certificate, surviving identity documents, pension or service records and your own birth certificate together do that job.
Do I need a gazette for this?
Usually not. A father's name entered wrongly on your marksheet is a clerical correction, and correcting it needs his documents rather than any publication.
Can a gazette notice cover my father's name?
Yes, as a correction notice. You may declare that in your own service record or certificates his name was wrongly written and state what it actually is, and one notice can cover you, your father and your mother together. What you cannot do is declare that he shall hereafter be known by a new name, since only he can change his own name.
Which school document matters most?
The admission form, because it shows his name as first written, usually by a parent. Whether it carries the correct or the incorrect version tells you immediately where the error began.
What if the admission form also has the wrong name?
Then the error started at admission, and the school's own entry is corrected as part of the same exercise. That is exactly why the Principal's verification step exists, so say it plainly rather than hiding it.
His Aadhaar and PAN show different spellings. What now?
Settle which version is correct before applying, usually the one his oldest and most formal records carry. A file whose documents disagree asks the reader to decide something you should have decided.
He uses a short form of his name on some documents. Is that a problem?
Usually not. A short form is normally usage rather than a different name, and the full form is treated as correct. Say so in one line in the affidavit rather than leaving it unexplained.
How should the affidavit be worded?
The one-and-the-same clause must name your father, with a separate clause establishing that you are his child. Templates adapted carelessly end up reading as though you are claiming to be your own father.
Is there a time limit?
No. Name corrections at the UP Board have no deadline, unlike date of birth which is limited to three years from passing.
What does it cost?
Around Rs 1,000 as the Board's correction fee, plus Rs 100 to 500 for the affidavit. There is no gazette fee in the ordinary case.
What else will need correcting afterwards?
The other class of marksheet if both are affected, your degree, and any certificate carrying a father's name, including caste, domicile, income and EWS from the Tehsil.
Official Sources
- The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad correction process, under which parent name entries are verified against school records and identity documents.
- The school Principal and District Inspector of Schools verification chain, which applies identically to parent name corrections.
- UIDAI and other issuing authorities whose documents establish a parent's recorded name.
- The Department of Publication's guidelines for change of name, which apply only where a person's own name genuinely changes.
Facts on this page are checked against these sources and our own casework, including files for families whose fathers had passed away. Office practice varies; the shift of proof to the parent's documents is the stable core.
The Short Version
This follows the ordinary UP Board correction route through your school, but the proof shifts: the entry is about your father, so his Aadhaar, PAN or other identity documents carry the case while yours establish the relationship. Ask the school specifically for the admission form, because whether it shows the correct or the incorrect version tells you at once whether the error was introduced at admission or when the data was copied. A father who has passed away does not end the case, since his death certificate and surviving records replace a live document, though the file should then be complete on arrival. Where his own documents disagree, settle which version is correct before applying. And note that you cannot publish a gazette changing somebody else's name: if you are told to, what is usually needed is a stronger set of his documents instead.