People look for "the gazette office in Gujarat" expecting a single counter they must visit. In reality the Gujarat Gazette is published by a government directorate through its printing presses and an online portal β and for a name change you almost never need to walk into an office at all. Here's who publishes it, where, and exactly how your notification reaches print.
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The Gujarat Gazette is not published by a private company, a law firm, or any "gazette agent." It is an official journal of the Government of Gujarat, and the specific body responsible for producing and publishing it is the Directorate of Government Printing & Stationery β usually shortened to DGPS. When you see a gazette notification, it has been printed under the authority of this directorate and given an official date and reference. That is precisely what makes a gazette entry usable as proof of a name change later on.
This matters because the phrase "gazette office" leads people to picture one physical building with a counter where they hand over papers and collect a certificate. The reality is more distributed: a government directorate, its printing presses, and an online portal work together to publish the journal. Knowing which part does what removes most of the confusion β and, for a name change, shows you why you rarely need to set foot in any of them.
The government body behind every page of the gazette.
The Directorate of Government Printing & Stationery (DGPS) is the Government of Gujarat department responsible for the state's official printing β including the Gujarat Gazette β as well as government stationery and forms. Its official website is dgps.gujarat.gov.in, and the gazette it publishes lives on the dedicated e-Gazette portal. In other words, DGPS is the authority; the e-Gazette portal is its public window.
Because DGPS is a government directorate, everything it publishes carries governmental authority β which is exactly why a Gujarat Gazette notification is accepted by banks, passport offices, schools and other institutions as proof of a name change. It also means that no independent website (including this one) is DGPS or can publish the gazette on its behalf. Services like ours prepare and file the paperwork so that DGPS can publish it correctly; the publication itself is always the government's act.
Under DGPS sit the state's Government Presses β the actual printing establishments where official material, including the gazette, is produced. Gujarat operates government presses in more than one city, and notably there is a Government Press in Vadodara as well as facilities associated with the state capital, Gandhinagar. These presses are the reason a gazette is a printed, dated journal and not merely a database entry β the electronic copy on the portal is the digital form of what the presses produce.
For most people this is background rather than something they interact with. You don't send your name-change papers to a printing press directly; the application flows through the proper channel, and the press produces the issue in which your notification appears. But it's useful to know the presses exist, because it explains the publication schedule: the gazette comes out on the government's printing timetable, which is why there's a normal, expected gap between filing an application and seeing it in a published issue.
The public face of the gazette office β where you search and download.
The official online portal, egazette.gujarat.gov.in, is where the published gazette is made available to the public. From there you can search published gazettes, view the most recent issues, and download the PDF of any published gazette β including the one that carries your name-change notification once it is out. The portal is available in English and Gujarati, and it is free to use.
The portal also hosts the government's online change-of-name process. It is, however, a functional government tool rather than a guide β it lets you search and submit, but it doesn't explain how the parts and sections work, what the fees are, how long publication takes, or what to do once you're published. That gap is exactly what our e-Gazette search & download guide and name-change form guide are written to fill. Use the portal for the official action; use these guides to understand it.
For a name change, almost never. This is the single most useful thing to understand, because the fear of "having to go to a government office in Gandhinagar" stops many people from starting. The application and its supporting affidavit are prepared and filed through the proper channel, and the published result is downloaded online. There is no requirement to personally queue at a press or directorate counter to get an ordinary name change published.
What people do need is for the paperwork to be correct and filed properly β which is where a local, experienced service removes the friction entirely. We handle the preparation and filing so you don't have to travel or navigate an unfamiliar government process, and we're based in Vadodara and serve all of Gujarat, mostly remotely over WhatsApp. If you were bracing yourself for a trip to a government office, you can relax: it isn't needed.
From your paperwork to a downloadable, dated gazette PDF.
Notice that not one of these steps requires you to personally visit a gazette office. For the detail on each stage, see our process & timeline guide; for finding and downloading the published result, see the e-Gazette search & download guide.
Everything on this page can be verified on the government's own sites. For the directorate, its offices and current contact details, use the official DGPS website; for the gazette itself, use the e-Gazette portal. We link these so you're never relying on a middleman for the official facts:
Because government office addresses, timings and procedures can change, treat the official DGPS site as the authority for current contact information rather than any third-party listing β including ours.
We're the name-change and documentation division of Harsiddhi Services, a government-approved CSC based in Vadodara β 9+ years in, 1200+ applications assisted. We are independent, and we are not DGPS or a government office. What we do is take the entire gazette process off your plate: we prepare the affidavit, complete the application accurately, file it through the correct channel, and follow it to publication β then hand you the downloadable gazette PDF with its date and reference. You don't travel to Gandhinagar, you don't queue at a press, and you don't decode an unfamiliar government portal. Most of it is handled over WhatsApp, with fixed, all-inclusive pricing and no hidden fees. If the "gazette office" has felt like a wall between you and a simple name change, this is how you get past it.
Tell us your current name, your desired new name, and your basic details. We'll prepare and file everything through the proper channel and deliver your published gazette β mostly remotely, from our Vadodara base, serving all of Gujarat.
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