Name Change Agent in Gujarat

On 2 October 2025 the Revenue Department issued a notification under the Gujarat Land Revenue Code of 1879 dividing Banaskantha into two districts. The new district is Vav-Tharad, with its headquarters at Tharad and eight talukas, while Banaskantha keeps Palanpur as its headquarters. Gujarat therefore has thirty four districts today. Almost every guide you will read online still says thirty three.

If your village went into the new district, this matters. Every document you hold from before that date names Banaskantha, while anything issued since names Vav-Tharad. Both are correct for their time and neither needs correcting. But a name change file is checked on the name and the address together, so a verifier comparing an older certificate with a recent Aadhaar sees two districts and asks. The affidavit has to state plainly that the village is the same and the district was reorganised in October 2025.

The Gujarat Gazette is published by the Directorate of Government Printing and Stationery, at the Government Printing Press in Sector 29, Gandhinagar. Unlike most states, Gujarat runs an e-Gazette portal that carries a dedicated Change of Name or Surname application, where you enter the old name, the new name, the address and your district and taluka, and attach the supporting documents. Once published you can search and download your own notification from the portal.

That is genuinely convenient, and for a state department record it is often the faster route. It has one limit worth knowing before you pay. A state Gazette is used mainly inside its own state. For a passport, a central Government service record, a job or a college outside Gujarat, or anything that has to be attested for use abroad, the Central Gazette of India is what offices ask for. We tell you which one applies to your case before you spend anything.

Gujarat became a state on 1 May 1960, when the bilingual Bombay State was divided under the Bombay Reorganisation Act. Before that, the districts of present day Gujarat sat inside Bombay State. Go back a little further and the map changes again. Saurashtra was a state of its own from 1948 to 1956, formed from around two hundred princely holdings with its capital at Rajkot. Kutch was a separate state under direct central administration until 1956. Baroda State merged into Bombay State in 1949. In colonial records, notices for these districts appeared in the Bombay Presidency Gazette.

So a school certificate, a land record or a service paper held by a Gujarati family can name Bombay State, Saurashtra State, Kutch State or Baroda State, none of which exist today, and none of which match a present day Aadhaar. None of it is an error. What it needs is an affidavit that names each document, says which authority issued it and when, and declares that every version belongs to one person. Standard drafts skip this entirely.