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To change your name legally in Chamarajanagara, you follow three steps. A notarised affidavit sworn here with two ordinary witnesses, public notices in two newspapers, one local and one national, and a Central Gazette notification with the fee paid on Bharatkosh. The adult fee is Rs 1,100, and each alias name you carry adds Rs 250.

15 August 1997

Seven Districts Were Announced on One Day, and Their Own Websites Give Different Dates

The district administration's history page describes the day in detail. On 15 August 1997, as a gift marking fifty years of independence, the then Chief Minister inaugurated the new district at Male Mahadeshwara Hills, with the Deputy Chief Minister and several members of the legislature inaugurating the Deputy Commissioner's office at Chamarajanagara. The page then states that this district was one of seven new districts formed on that day, and names them, including Udupi, Davanagere, Haveri and Koppal.

Now read the other districts' own websites. Haveri's administration gives 24 August 1997 as the day its district was formed. Koppal's administration and its district court both record that Koppal remained part of Raichur district until 1 April 1998. Three government websites, one reorganisation, three different dates. None of them is lying. An announcement, a notification and the day an office actually opens are three different events, and each site quotes the one that mattered to it.

We have written pages for four of those seven districts, and we used the dates each district's own site gives. That is why our Haveri page says 24 August 1997 and our Koppal page says 1 April 1998, while this page says 15 August 1997 for the announcement. We are not going to quietly pick one and pretend the others do not exist. Setting the difference out is more useful than hiding it, and it is exactly the courtesy your own documents deserve.
Arikottara, and a King Nobody Can Pin Down

This Town Was Renamed After a King Born Here, and Sources Disagree Which King

The district administration's history page states it plainly. Chamaraja Wodeyar, the Wodeyar of Mysuru, was born here, and hence this place was renamed after him. The earlier name is given as Arikottara, and in some accounts as Sri Arikottara. So the town carries the name of a king because he happened to be born in it.

Then look at which king. A widely read encyclopedia entry names Chamaraja Wodeyar the Ninth in its summary box, links to Chamaraja Wodeyar the First in the sentence about the man born here, and carries a citation needed marker against that sentence. One article, two different kings, and an admission that the claim is unsourced. A whole town is named after somebody and the record cannot settle who.

Keep that in mind the next time a counter is confident about your name. If a district's own naming cannot be pinned to one person in the public record, then two documents of yours differing by a letter is not a mystery requiring suspicion. It is ordinary. What settles it is not argument but a dated published notification, which is what a Gazette is for. Our name spelling correction page explains when you need one and when you do not.
The Line Almost Nobody Quotes You

If You Carry an Alias Name, That Is Rs 250 More Each

Here is the fee schedule as we actually file it. Rs 1,100 for an adult. Rs 1,700 for a minor. Rs 1,350 for a public notice. Rs 3,500 for Indians living abroad. And Rs 250 in addition for every alias name carried on the application. That last line is the one you will almost never see quoted, and it is the one that surprises people, because a great many families here carry a second name that appears on some papers and not on others.

In this district that happens for a particular reason. Kannada is the mother tongue, but Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu are all spoken here, and the district borders Tamil Nadu on the east and south and Kerala on the south west. A name that has crossed between five languages over three generations very often picks up a second form along the way. Tell us at the very start, and the fee changes before you pay rather than after.

Every figure above is a Government charge, separate from anybody's service fee. It is paid through the Non-Tax Receipt Portal at bharatkosh.gov.in in your own name, and the receipt comes to you. Stamp duty on the affidavit is a separate Rs 20 under the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957, and one page ranking for this state describes it correctly as stamp paper of Rs 20 or above, which is the right way to put it since duty is a minimum. Newspaper charges are separate again and depend on the two papers.
Central Gazette

The Central Gazette Process for a Name Change in Chamarajanagara

This is the route accepted everywhere in India and abroad. Here is each step.

Prepare and Notarise the Affidavit Here

A sworn declaration on non-judicial stamp paper with two ordinary adult witnesses, attested by a Notary Public or First Class Magistrate in Chamarajanagara.

Publish in Two Newspapers

One local paper and one national, both carrying your father's or husband's name and your full residential address. The originals go with the file.

Pay on Bharatkosh and Send the File

Pay through the Non-Tax Receipt Portal, print the receipt, and the complete file goes by post or courier to the Controller of Publications, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054.

Aimed at Exactly the People Who Will Believe It

Your Two Witnesses Do Not Have to Be Gazetted Officers

A page written specifically about the name change procedure for Karnataka Government employees states that the legal procedure is to get the affidavit signed by two persons of gazetted officer rank, complete with their signature and rubber stamp. That is not the requirement. An affidavit is sworn before a Notary Public or a First Class Magistrate, and it is signed by two ordinary adult witnesses. A neighbour. A colleague. A relative who is not a party to it.

This one is worth stopping on because of who it is written for. Government staff are precisely the readers who will accept a sentence like that without question and then spend a fortnight chasing two officers for signatures they never needed. If somebody has told you this, ask them which rule requires it. There is nothing in the Department of Publication's published guidelines that does.

Central Government staff do have one genuine extra step, and it is a different one. The deed follows the format prescribed under the Ministry of Home Affairs memorandum, O.M. No. 190016/1/87-Estt. dated 12 March 1987. That is a real requirement and most pages do not mention it at all, while inventing a witness rule that does not exist. Our name change affidavit page sets out the wording.
Step 2 in Detail

Why the National Paper Is Not Optional Here

One page ranking for this state puts the reason well, and we will give it the credit. For the Central route it says one English national daily and one regional language newspaper, and adds that national daily matters here, because a local paper does not satisfy the central process the way it might for state purposes. That is the right explanation of a step most pages simply list.

So both notices go in, one local and one national, and both must carry your father's or husband's name with your full residential address, worded identically to the affidavit including every alias. Buy spare copies of both papers on the morning they print, because the originals are forwarded with your file and the guidelines state that submitted documents are not returned in any form.

The same page still lists a fee demand draft, and that part is out of date. Payment moved to the Non-Tax Receipt Portal at bharatkosh.gov.in from 1 October 2018, and NEFT and RTGS were stopped from 18 March 2019. A page can be right about the newspapers and wrong about the payment in the same paragraph, which is why every line has to be checked rather than the page as a whole trusted or dismissed.
Step 3 in Detail

Bharatkosh Only, and Nothing Older Than a Year

Paid through the Non-Tax Receipt Portal at bharatkosh.gov.in only
Payment moved to that portal from 1 October 2018
NEFT and RTGS were stopped from 18 March 2019
No demand draft, and no compact disc
Documents must not be older than one year
The Gazette hard copy was discontinued from 1 October 2015
The one year rule is the most expensive line on this page. An affidavit sworn and both notices published, then the file set aside while a harvest or a wedding took over, and eighteen months later all of it has to be redone and paid for again, including both advertisements. If you already have papers prepared, tell us the date on them before anything else happens.
Check This Before You Pay Anybody

Not Every Case in Chamarajanagara Needs a Gazette

A name error in a birth certificate is corrected by the Registrar of Births and Deaths at the body that registered the birth, under section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969. You apply to that Registrar with the supporting documents. No Gazette and no newspaper advertisement are involved. An SSLC or PUC marks card is corrected by the board that issued it. Caste, income and residence certificates are corrected by the issuing authority.

A Gazette is for a full legal name change, after marriage, after divorce, for numerology or by personal choice, and for cases where the same difference repeats across enough records that fixing them one at a time costs more than publishing once. If one paper names Mysore district and another names Chamarajanagara, that is not a case at all.

Send photographs and ask us the plain question, do I actually need this. A good share of the people who write to us do not, and we say so and they pay us nothing. That matters particularly here, because a Tamil or Malayalam form of a name written into an English record is very often a transliteration question the issuing office can settle, not a change of name at all. Getting that distinction right is the difference between a free afternoon and several thousand rupees.
Compare the Two Routes

Karnataka State e-Gazette or Central Gazette in Chamarajanagara?

The southernmost district of Karnataka, touching both Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

PointKarnataka State e-GazetteCentral Gazette of India
Published byDepartment of Printing, Stationery and Publications, BengaluruDepartment of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi
Papers naming Mysore district before 1997Explained office by officeOne published proof settles it everywhere
Work, land or marriage across the Tamil Nadu lineQuestioned outside KarnatakaAccepted there too
Family or property across the Kerala lineQuestioned againAccepted there too
A Tamil or Malayalam form of a name on an older recordExplained at each counterCovered by the same notification
Passport reissue and going abroadUsually not accepted for attestationThe published national record embassies expect
Karnataka board or state university recordsOften the one those offices ask forAlso accepted
Where you download the copyThe state e-Gazette portalegazette.gov.in, Weekly Gazette, Part IV
Our honest advice for Chamarajanagara: take the Central Gazette. This is the southernmost district of Karnataka and it touches Tamil Nadu on two sides and Kerala on a third, which means a great many families here have records, land, work and marriages that cross state lines. A notification effective only within Karnataka is a weak instrument in that position. If your case is purely a Karnataka board record or a state service file, say so and we will tell you the state route is enough. The state comparison is on our Karnataka page, the parent district page is Mysuru, and the national guide is at name change agent in India.
Get Ready

Documents Required for a Name Change in Chamarajanagara

Keep clear copies ready, and check the dates on anything already prepared.

Notarised name change affidavit on stamp paper, which we draft
Both original newspapers carrying your notice, local and national
Aadhaar, voter ID or passport as identity proof
Address proof showing your taluk, with a 571 series pin code
Any paper naming Mysore district, or a Tamil or Malayalam form of your name
Two photographs, two ordinary witnesses, and the Bharatkosh receipt
One thing worth knowing before you send anything: the guidelines state that documents once submitted are not returned to the applicant, in original or photocopy form, so keep your own copies of everything. You download your notification from egazette.gov.in under the Weekly Gazette, Part IV, and the hard copy was discontinued from 1 October 2015. For central Government staff, the deed follows the format prescribed under the Ministry of Home Affairs memorandum of 12 March 1987.
Cost and Time

Name Change Cost in Chamarajanagara

The full Government schedule, including the line most quotes leave out.

Government Fees

₹1,100 adult

Paid on Bharatkosh, receipt to you

  • Minor: Rs 1,700
  • Public notice: Rs 1,350
  • Each alias name: Rs 250
  • Living abroad: Rs 3,500
  • Stamp duty: Rs 20
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Three separate things make up your total, and a good quote separates them. The Government fees above, paid on Bharatkosh in your own name with the receipt coming to you. The two newspaper advertisements, billed at cost after we tell you each paper's rate, and published rates for this state run anywhere from Rs 395 to Rs 3,000 depending on the publication. And our service fee, which is stated and does not move. If a quote gives you one number and will not break it down, you cannot check any part of it, and the alias line is exactly what disappears inside a lump sum.
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Most people think the Gazette is the finish line. It is the middle. Here is the whole journey.

NameChangeAgent is a platform built for exactly this one job, done properly. We are based in Delhi and we work with people across Chamarajanagara district entirely online, from the town and Kollegala to Gundlupete, Yalanduru, Hanuru, the Biligiriranga and Male Mahadeshwara hills and the villages around them. You send photographs of what you have on WhatsApp. We read them, tell you honestly which route your case needs, and then carry it through. Your affidavit is notarised here, with two ordinary witnesses.

What makes a Chamarajanagara file different is how many languages a name can pass through before it reaches an English record. Kannada is the mother tongue here, and Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu are all spoken, with Tamil Nadu on two sides and Kerala on a third. Papers before 1997 name Mysore district. Add an alias name, which many families here carry for exactly that reason, and the Government fee changes before you file. We ask about all of it before a single word is drafted.

Free Consultation on Your Chamarajanagara Case

Send your papers on WhatsApp with the taluk, the years and any alias name, exactly as printed. We tell you whether your difference is a correction or a change, whether the state or Central route fits, and whether you need a Gazette at all. No charge and no obligation.

Affidavit Drafted and Notarised Here

Drafted naming Mysore district and every form of your name exactly as each document carries it, with the year, on stamp paper carrying the Rs 20 duty, attested by a notary here with two ordinary adult witnesses. No gazetted officers required.

Both Newspaper Notices Placed

One local and one national, worded identically to the affidavit including every alias. We tell you each paper's rate before booking, and we remind you to buy spare copies on the day, because the originals go with the file and are never returned.

Fees Paid on Bharatkosh, File Couriered

We pay the correct schedule, including any alias charge, through the Non-Tax Receipt Portal in your name, print the receipt, and courier the complete file to the Controller of Publications in Delhi. No demand draft and no disc.

Your Gazette Notification Retrieved

Once published we retrieve your notification from egazette.gov.in, Weekly Gazette Part IV, and send it to you. Nobody should be charging you extra for a hard copy, which was discontinued in 2015.

Every Document Updated Afterwards

Aadhaar, PAN, passport, bank, provident fund, employer and land records, including anything held in Tamil Nadu or Kerala. Most agents stop before this stage, and this is the stage that actually matters.

One person, one number, all the way through: the same team member who reads your first WhatsApp message stays with your file until the last document is updated, in Hindi or English. Call 9540005002 or message 9540005064 to start.
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Areas We Serve Across Chamarajanagara

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Chamarajanagara TownKollegalaGundlupeteYalanduruHanuruMale Mahadeshwara HillsBiligiriranga HillsBandipurSanthemarahalliHaradanahalliTerakanambiBegurRamapuraKuderuChandakavadiHaraveMangalaBheemanabeeduPunajanurShivapura

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Rs 250 for each one. Almost no quote mentions it until afterwards.

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Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu all reach paper here.

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Two Ordinary Witnesses, Not Officers

One page tells Government staff they need two gazetted officers. They do not.

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Bharatkosh, Receipt in Your Name

Every Government rupee is paid in your name and the receipt comes to you.

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Name Change in Chamarajanagara, Frequently Asked Questions

Clear answers to the questions we hear most often.

How do I change my name legally in Chamarajanagara?
In three steps. A notarised affidavit sworn here with two ordinary witnesses, public notices in two newspapers, one local and one national, and a Central Gazette notification with the fee paid on Bharatkosh. We handle all three for you, fully online.
What are the actual Government fees?
Rs 1,100 for an adult, Rs 1,700 for a minor, Rs 1,350 for a public notice, and Rs 250 extra for each alias name carried on the application. Indians living abroad pay Rs 3,500. Stamp duty on the affidavit is a separate Rs 20 under the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957. Newspaper charges depend on the two papers.
Do my witnesses have to be gazetted officers?
No. A page written about the procedure for Karnataka Government employees says the affidavit must be signed by two persons of gazetted officer rank with their rubber stamp. That is not the requirement. An affidavit is attested by a Notary Public or First Class Magistrate and signed by two ordinary adult witnesses.
What counts as an alias name?
A second name you are also known by, appearing on some documents and not others. In this district it very often comes from a name passing between Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu or Urdu across generations. Each alias carried on the application adds Rs 250 to the Government fee, so tell us at the start.
When was Chamarajanagara district formed?
The district administration's history page describes the inauguration on 15 August 1997 at Male Mahadeshwara Hills, marking fifty years of independence, and states that this was one of seven new districts formed that day. Some other accounts give 1998. Districts announced on the same day record different formation dates on their own websites, because an announcement, a notification and an operational start are different events.
What was Chamarajanagara called before?
Arikottara, and in some accounts Sri Arikottara. The district administration's history page records that Chamaraja Wodeyar, the Wodeyar of Mysuru, was born here and that the place was renamed after him.
Which Chamaraja Wodeyar is it named after?
Sources disagree. A widely read encyclopedia names Chamaraja Wodeyar the Ninth in its summary box while linking to Chamaraja Wodeyar the First in the sentence about the ruler born here, and carries a citation needed marker against that sentence.
My papers name Mysore district.
Correct for their year. This district was carved out of the larger Mysore district, so a record from before that separation naming Mysore district is old rather than wrong.
How many newspapers do I need?
Two. One local paper and one national, both stating your father's or husband's name along with your full residential address, and both originals are forwarded with the file. One page ranking for this state explains the reason well, noting that for the central process a national daily matters in a way a purely local paper does not. Buy spare copies on the day, because submitted documents are not returned.
Does a birth certificate spelling need a Gazette?
No. You apply to the Registrar of Births and Deaths at the body that registered the birth, under section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, with the supporting documents. An SSLC or PUC marks card is corrected by the board that issued it. Neither needs a Gazette or a newspaper advertisement.

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Reviewed by Gourav Singal, Advocate. Gourav has practised in legal documentation for five years, is based in Jaipur, and works with NameChangeAgent on name change files day to day. He checks the legal accuracy of the process, the offices and the fees set out on this page. Written and maintained by the NameChangeAgent documentation team, who have handled legal name change work for over five years. Last reviewed 28 July 2026.

Sources for the official details on this page: the Department of Publication's published guidelines for change of name through deptpub.gov.in · chamrajnagar.nic.in · the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 · the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, section 15 · egazette.gov.in

This page explains a documentation process and is not legal advice on your individual case. The fee lines above, including the additional charge for each alias name, reflect the schedule as we file it in practice; fees are set by the Government and are revised, so confirm the current position before you pay. The historical material is included only to explain why papers from this district name different places, and where published sources differ, as they do on this district's formation date and on which ruler the town is named after, we set out the difference rather than choosing quietly. This page takes no position on any question of language or community. Stamp duty rates are set by statute and are amended from time to time. Birth certificate, marks card, caste, income and residence certificate corrections follow the issuing authority's own procedure. For a contested matter, or anything before a court, you need a lawyer engaged for you specifically.

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