BharatKosh Fee Payment for Gazette Name Change from Tripura
The Gazette fee is paid once, online, on the Government's own portal, and the receipt goes in your file. Pay it under the wrong head and the Department cannot see your money; pay it to an agent in cash and you have no receipt at all. This page walks you through every screen on BharatKosh from Tripura, the exact purpose and codes to pick, the amount, and what to check on the receipt before it goes in the envelope.
You pay the Gazette name change fee on bharatkosh.gov.in as a non-registered individual user. Select the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, the Sale of Gazette purpose under the Controller of Publications, New Delhi, enter commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult or Rs 1,700 for a minor, pay by UPI, card or net banking, and print the e-receipt for your Gazette file. Cash, demand drafts and bank transfers are not accepted, and the fee is not refunded.
BharatKosh is the Non-Tax Receipt Portal of the Government of India, the single online counter through which Government departments collect fees like this one. For your Gazette name change from Tripura it does one job: it takes the Department of Publication's fee from you and gives you a receipt that the Department can match to your file. That means the payment must land under the Department's own purpose head, in your name, for the right amount. Get those three things right and the money question is finished in ten minutes from Agartala, Udaipur or Kailashahar.
The BharatKosh payment at a glance
- Portal
- bharatkosh.gov.in, the Non-Tax Receipt Portal
- User type
- Non-registered user; depositor category Individual
- Ministry
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- Purpose
- Sale of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi)
- PAO
- 042729, Pay and Accounts Office (Printing)
- DDO
- 242722, Controller of Publications, New Delhi
- Where the file goes after payment
- Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054
- Amount
- Commonly Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor; around Rs 7,500 to Rs 9,000 from abroad
- Pay by
- UPI, debit or credit card, net banking
- You keep
- The e-receipt printout, with the transaction reference, for the file
- Refund
- None. The fee is non-refundable
Key takeaways
- BharatKosh is the only channel. Demand drafts and bank transfers were discontinued; cash was never accepted.
- The payment lands with the Controller of Publications only if you pick the Ministry, purpose, PAO and DDO correctly. A payment under any other head is money the Department cannot see.
- Pay in your own name, the old name, so the receipt matches the applicant on the file.
- The fee is revised each financial year. The portal shows what it is today; this page says "commonly".
- Pay only after the spelling on the proforma is confirmed in writing, because there is no refund if the file comes back.
- An agent asking for the Gazette fee in cash cannot give you a BharatKosh receipt in your name. Do not pay it.
Paying the Gazette name change fee on BharatKosh, screen by screen
Ten minutes on a phone or a laptop. Have your Aadhaar and your payment app ready.
Open bharatkosh.gov.in
Use the official address only. On the home page, choose the option for non-registered users. You do not need an account for a one-time payment.
Depositor category: Individual
Pick Individual. You are paying as a private person, not as a company or a Government office.
Select the Ministry
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The Department of Publication sits under it.
Select the purpose
Search for Sale of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi). When it appears, check that the PAO shows 042729, Pay and Accounts Office (Printing), and the DDO shows 242722, Controller of Publications, New Delhi.
Enter the amount and your details
Rs 1,100 for an adult, Rs 1,700 for a minor, as the portal shows for the current year. Your name in the old name, your Tripura address, your mobile and email. The remarks line can say "Change of name, Part IV".
Pay and print the receipt
Choose UPI, card or net banking, complete the payment, and download the e-receipt. Print it. That printout is item 10 of your Gazette file.
The purpose, PAO and DDO for a Gazette name change payment
| Field | What you select | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Ministry | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | The ministry that runs the Department of Publication |
| Purpose | Sale of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi) | The receipt head the Department uses for Part IV notices |
| PAO | 042729, Pay and Accounts Office (Printing) | The accounts office that books the money |
| DDO | 242722, Controller of Publications, New Delhi | The officer whose office receives your file |
| Depositor | You, in your old name | Must match the applicant on the proforma |
These selections are the ones on files the desk has paid for Tripura clients; the portal may renumber or rename them in a future year, so treat the Controller of Publications, New Delhi as the check that matters. The Department can only match a receipt to your file if the money reached its own head in your name.
How much you pay on BharatKosh for a Gazette name change
| Your case | Fee, commonly | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Adult, resident in India | Rs 1,100 | Most Tripura applicants |
| Minor, through a parent or guardian | Rs 1,700 | Pay the minor fee; the adult fee for a child bounces the file |
| Applicant living outside India | Around Rs 7,500 to Rs 9,000 | With an embassy-attested deed |
| Two names, alias line | A small extra on some files | Ask before paying if you carry an alias |
| Correction notice after a wrong publication | The full fee again | Because the first fee is not refunded |
Everything else you spend, stamp paper, notary, two newspapers and our service charge, is separate from this receipt. Package pricing with the Government fee as its own line is on the services page.
What to check on the BharatKosh receipt for your Gazette file
Must be right
- Depositor name is your old name, spelt as on the proforma
- Purpose line names Sale of Gazette and the Controller of Publications
- Amount is the adult or minor figure for your case
- Payment status shows success, not pending
- Transaction reference number is printed and readable
Keep for yourself
- A PDF of the receipt on your phone and your email
- The transaction reference, written on the inside of your folder
- Your bank or UPI app confirmation, in case a query arises
- A second printout, because the one in the file is not returned
The receipt printout is item 10 on the documents required list. Like everything else in the file, it stays with the Department once submitted.
When to pay the Gazette fee, and when not to
Pay it last. The fee has no refund, so it should be the final thing you do before the file is delivered, after the affidavit is notarised, both newspaper pages are in hand, the proforma is typed and checked, and the spelling has been confirmed in writing. Paying on day one, before the spelling is locked, is how people end up paying twice.
There is one more reason to pay late. Every document in the file must be under one year old on the day of submission, and while a receipt rarely goes stale, a file assembled in a hurry around an old receipt sometimes carries other stale pages with it. Do the pages first, the payment last, and deliver within days.
Payment methods that work on BharatKosh from Tripura
UPI
Any UPI app linked to your bank. The fastest from a phone in Tripura, and the receipt appears within a minute of the app confirming.
Debit or credit card
Any Indian bank's card. Keep the OTP SMS handy; the portal times out if the bank's page is slow.
Net banking
SBI, UBI, Tripura Gramin Bank, TSCB and every other bank on the portal's list. Log in on the bank's page, approve, and return to BharatKosh for the receipt.
BharatKosh mistakes that get a Gazette file returned
Wrong destination
- Wrong ministry or a purpose line that does not name the Controller of Publications
- Paid to a different Government of India Press head
- Paid as a bank transfer or demand draft instead of on the portal
- Paid on a look-alike site rather than bharatkosh.gov.in
Wrong details
- Depositor name in the new name, or an agent's name
- Adult fee paid for a minor
- Receipt printed while the status was still pending
- Receipt from last year's attempt reused on a new file
Refunds, failed payments and double payments on BharatKosh
| What happened | What you do |
|---|---|
| Money left your account, portal shows failed | Wait one working day. Portal-side failures usually reverse to your bank. Then pay again; do not submit a file with a failed receipt |
| Paid twice by mistake | Use the portal's track-your-payment and refund request with both transaction references, and write to the Department with the details. Submit the file with one receipt |
| Paid, but the file was returned for an error in your papers | No refund. A fresh notice needs a fresh fee. Every reason a file is returned is on time, fees and rejection reasons |
| Paid under the wrong head | The Department cannot see it. Raise a refund request on the portal, and pay again under the correct purpose |
Gazette words used on this page, explained
The vocabulary of a Tripura name change, explained plainly.
- Part IV
- The section of the Gazette of India that carries notices from private people rather than from the Government. A personal name change appears here and nowhere else.
- Proforma
- The typed page that becomes your Gazette notice. It is filed in two identical copies, signed in your existing old name, and witnessed by two people.
- CD certificate
- A signed page declaring that the soft copy and the hard copy of your notice carry the same matter, that you are responsible for any mismatch and for the quality of the CD, and that the file is in MS Word format.
- Request letter
- The covering letter addressed to the Controller, Publication Department, Civil Line, Delhi 110054, stating that the formalities are complete and the documents are enclosed.
- Affidavit
- A written statement you swear is true before a notary. For a name change it records your old name, your new name, your parent's or husband's name, your address and the reason.
- Deponent
- The person who swears an affidavit. For a minor's name change the deponent is a parent, never the child.
- Verification clause
- The closing paragraph of an affidavit stating the place and date and confirming that the contents are true to the best of your knowledge and belief.
- Two witnesses
- The Gazette notice carries two witnesses, each giving a signature, a full name and a complete address. Initials or a partial address are a common reason a file is returned.
- Newspaper notice
- The same wording published in one Bengali daily and one English daily circulating in Tripura. The complete original page of each is kept, because a cutting is refused.
- BharatKosh
- The Non-Tax Receipt Portal at bharatkosh.gov.in, the only accepted channel for the Central Gazette fee.
- e-Gazette
- The portal at egazette.gov.in where published notices are searched and downloaded free. Gazette publication has been digital only since October 2015.
- Department of Publication
- The office of the Government of India that publishes the Gazette, at Civil Lines behind the Delhi Vidhan Sabha Metro Station. It is the only office in the country that accepts a personal name change file.
Paying the Gazette fee from any district of Tripura
The portal does not care where you are. A phone signal in Sabroom does the same job as a laptop in Agartala.
If you would rather not do the screens yourself, we sit with you on a call, you pay in your own name from your own phone, and the receipt goes straight into the file at Capital Complex.
BharatKosh and the Gazette fee, the questions people search
Can I pay the Gazette fee in cash at the Delhi office?
No. The Department does not take cash. The fee is paid on BharatKosh and the receipt goes in the file.
Do I need to register on BharatKosh?
No. A one-time payment goes through as a non-registered user. Registering only helps if you will make several payments.
Can an agent pay the fee for me?
The money can come from anywhere, but the depositor name on the receipt must be yours. A receipt in an agent's name does not match your file. We guide you through paying in your own name rather than paying on your behalf.
Is the Gazette fee refundable if I change my mind?
No. Once paid under the Department's head, it is not refunded, whether the file is filed or not.
What if the portal shows a different amount from Rs 1,100?
The portal is right. The fee is revised each financial year. Pay what the portal shows for the current year and keep the receipt.
Does the receipt expire?
Not on its own, but every document in a Gazette file must be under one year old on the day of submission, so use a fresh receipt for a fresh file.
Pay once, under the right head, in your own name
We check your proforma first, then walk you through BharatKosh on a call so the receipt is right before the file is delivered. Government fee and our charge shown as two separate numbers, before you pay anything.
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BharatKosh fee payment for Gazette name change, frequently asked questions
How do I pay the Gazette name change fee from Tripura?
How much is the Gazette name change fee?
Which purpose do I select on BharatKosh?
Can I pay by demand draft or bank transfer?
Whose name goes on the payment?
Do I need a BharatKosh account?
What do I do with the receipt?
Is the Gazette fee refundable?
When should I pay?
Can I use last year's receipt for a new file?
What if the payment failed but money was deducted?
Can you pay the fee for me?
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Official sources for the BharatKosh Gazette fee payment
- BharatKosh, the Non-Tax Receipt PortalThe portal itself: non-registered payment, purpose search, track your payment and refund request.
- Department of Publication, Government of IndiaThe change of name guidelines that set the fee and say it is paid on BharatKosh.
- The Gazette of India, e-Gazette portalWhere your notice appears once the paid file is accepted.
- Tripura e-Gazette, Tripura Government PressThe state Gazette, which has no BharatKosh fee for a personal notice because it has no citizen route; see Central vs State.
Read next: where the paid file goes, the proforma that must be right before you pay, and how to find your notice once the paid file is published.
BharatKosh Gazette fee from Tripura, the short version
- bharatkosh.gov.in, non-registered user, Individual, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Sale of Gazette (PAO Printing, New Delhi), PAO 042729, DDO 242722 Controller of Publications, New Delhi.
- Commonly Rs 1,100 adult, Rs 1,700 minor, revised each financial year. Pay what the portal shows.
- In your own name, the old name. UPI, card or net banking. Print the receipt for the file.
- Pay last, after the spelling is confirmed, because there is no refund.
- No cash, no demand draft, no bank transfer, no agent's name on the receipt.
One fee, one receipt, one file that goes through
Send your documents on WhatsApp or visit us at Capital Complex, Agartala. You will know the route, the total cost and the timeline before you pay anything.