The Registrar corrects it, not a gazette • The correction goes in the margin • The original entry is never altered

Mother Name Correction in a Birth Certificate in Jharkhand

The birth certificate is the one document in the whole file that always carries a mother's name. Aadhaar has no mother field. A caste certificate has no mother field. So when her name is wrong or written in a form that does not match her own papers, this is where it sits, and it follows the child for life. The route is Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, through the Registrar, not through a gazette. And there is one thing about it that almost nobody is told in advance: the law says the Registrar corrects the error by a suitable entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry.

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15The section that does this work

0Gazette notices a register correction needs

1Document that always holds her name

2Forms of her name, and only one should stay

Reviewed by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk • Updated 21 September 2026

Quick answer

Two things decide this file, and most people are told neither. The first is who has the power. A birth register is corrected by the Registrar under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, which says that if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar that an entry is erroneous in form or substance, or has been fraudulently or improperly made, he may correct it, subject to the State Government's rules. A gazette notification does not do this. It never rewrites a birth register, whatever anybody quotes you for. The second thing is what a correction actually looks like when it comes back, and this is the part that surprises families. The same section says the Registrar corrects the error by suitable entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereto the date of the correction. So the old entry is not erased. You get a record that carries the correction in the margin, signed and dated. That is not a defect and it is not a failure by the office. It is what the law says the correction is. Knowing that before you apply saves an argument at the counter and stops you paying somebody who promises a clean new certificate with no trace of the old one. Underneath both points sits the question this page spends most of its time on: which form of the mother's name should the child's record carry, because in Jharkhand the commonest problem is not a misspelling at all. It is that she was registered as Kumari or Devi at the child's birth and her own documents now say something else.

The law, word for word

Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act and What It Gives You

Mother name correction in a birth certificate in Jharkhand through the Registrar — The Registrar corrects it in the margin, signs it and dates it. The original entry stays.

Read the section once and you will never again be sold a gazette file for a birth record. It is short, and every line of it matters to your application.

Section 15, in full. "If it is proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar that any entry of a birth or death in any register kept by him under this Act is erroneous in form or substance, or has been fraudulently or improperly made, he may, subject to such rules as may be made by the State Government with respect to the conditions on which and the circumstances in which such entries may be corrected or cancelled, correct the error or cancel the entry by suitable entry in the margin, without any alternation of the original entry, and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereto the date of the correction or cancellation."

What each part of Section 15 means for a mother name correction
The words in the section	What they mean for your file
Proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar	You are not asking a favour, you are proving something. So the application stands or falls on the documents attached to it, not on how the request is phrased
Erroneous in form or substance	Wide enough to cover a misspelling, a wrong name and a name written in the wrong form. You do not have to squeeze your case into a narrow box
By suitable entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry	The sentence nobody warns you about. The old entry stays. The correction appears alongside it. Expect an annotated record, not a fresh clean one
Shall sign the marginal entry and add the date	The correction is signed and dated by the Registrar, which is exactly what makes it usable at any counter later
Subject to such rules as may be made by the State Government	The conditions and the paperwork are set by the State. That is why the form and the supporting list can differ between one office and another

The promise you should refuse. Anybody who tells you they can get the mother's name changed on a birth record through a gazette notification, or that you will receive a new certificate with no sign of the earlier entry, is promising something the section does not provide. A gazette is a published notice. A birth register is corrected by the Registrar, in the margin, with a signature and a date. The general position on birth records is on our name change in birth certificate page.

The real question

Which Form of the Mother Name Should a Birth Certificate Carry

In Jharkhand the commonest problem on this page is not a misspelling. It is that the mother was registered under one form of her name when the child was born, and her own documents now carry another. Both are her. Only one should sit on the child's record.

The common forms a mother name takes and which one a birth record should carry
What happened	What to put on the child record
Registered as Sunita Kumari or Sunita Devi at the birth, while her documents now say Sunita Verma	The form that matches her own current documents, because every later verification compares the child's certificate against her papers, not against a memory of what the hospital wrote
Registered in her maiden surname, and she never changed it anywhere	Leave it. If her own papers still carry the maiden surname, the record already agrees with her and there is nothing to correct
Registered in the husband's surname, but her own documents were never updated after marriage	Settle her documents first, then bring the child record to match. Correcting the child record alone leaves the mismatch exactly where it was
A genuine spelling mistake by the hospital or the registering clerk	A straightforward Section 15 correction against her identity documents. This is the easiest version of this page
The wrong woman's name entirely, from a mix-up at registration	Still Section 15, because the section covers an entry erroneous in substance, but expect the Registrar to want more proof. Do not treat it as a spelling matter
The mother's name was left blank	A different request from a correction, and it needs the record itself looked at before anything is drafted

The rule that decides nearly every case. The child's birth certificate should carry the mother's name in the form her own documents carry it. Not the prettiest form, not the form the family uses at home, and not the form the hospital happened to write. Everything downstream, a passport application, a school admission, a recruitment verification, compares the two side by side. Make them agree and the question never comes up.

Kumari and Devi are not surnames, and that is the trap. Across Jharkhand a woman is registered as Sunita Kumari before marriage and becomes Sunita Verma after it, or keeps Devi throughout. A clerk reading the child's certificate has no way of knowing that Sunita Kumari and Sunita Verma are the same woman. So either bring the child's record to her current documents, or settle her documents to match. What you must not do is leave the two in different worlds and hope nobody compares them. The wider position is on our Kumari or Devi to the husband surname page.

Where her name does and does not exist. Worth knowing before you plan the whole family's paperwork. The birth certificate always has a mother field. Aadhaar does not. A caste certificate does not. PAN prints one parent's name, and since a 2018 change the applicant may choose which parent, with the mother's name allowed where she is a single parent applying with her name only. So the birth certificate is often the only place the mother's name is formally recorded in a child's file, which is exactly why an error here matters so much more than it looks.

Where and who

Which Registrar Office in Jharkhand, and Who Signs the Application

Two practical questions that decide whether your file moves in weeks or sits for months. Neither is complicated once you know the answer.

Which Office Holds Your Register

A city birth

The Municipal Corporation for that city. For a birth in Ranchi city, the Ranchi Municipal Corporation holds the register.

A town birth

The Nagar Parishad or Nagar Panchayat for that town, depending on which body covers the place of birth.

A village birth

The block registrar for that area. Rural registers sit at the block, not at any municipal office.

It follows the place of birth

Not where you live now. The register that recorded the birth is the one that must correct it, however far away you have moved since.

A district that was split later

Older registers often sit with the parent district. Jharkhand has had many splits, so a pre-split birth may be held elsewhere.

Ask before you travel

One phone call saves a wasted day. Confirm which office holds the register for that year before going anywhere with papers.

We are not printing a single address or a timeline on this page. Which body registers a birth in Jharkhand depends on the place, the year and whether the area was reorganised since, and a wrong address costs you a day you will not get back. We have not verified a current list of offices, so we will not publish one. Ask the office that issued the certificate you are holding, because whoever issued it is holding the register.

Who Signs the Application

Who applies for a mother name correction in a birth record
Whose certificate it is	Who applies
The child is a minor	A parent or guardian applies. On any minor's file the guardian signs and the child signs nothing
The child is now an adult	The adult applies about their own record. The mother's documents are attached as proof, but the application is the record holder's
The mother wants her own name corrected across several children's certificates	Each certificate is its own register entry, so each needs its own application, but they can be prepared together from one set of her documents
The mother has died	Work from her certified records as the fixed point. This needs the papers looked at before anything is drafted, because what exists decides what is possible

What goes in the application, in three lines. The entry exactly as the register holds it, with the child's name, date of birth and registration number. What the mother's name should read, written letter by letter. And what you rely on, attached as self attested copies of her identity documents. Hand in two copies and keep one stamped as received. Ask in the same letter for a copy of the corrected entry once it is made.

In order

The Order to Correct a Mother Name in a Birth Record in Jharkhand

The first three steps cost nothing, and step two is the one that decides whether this is a short job or a long one.

Read the certificate you are holding

The mother name as printed, letter by letter, plus the registration number, the date and the issuing office. Write all of it down.

Lay out the mother own documents

Aadhaar, PAN, voter card, her Class 10 certificate, bank papers. Decide which form of her name is the settled one, because that is the target.

Settle her records first if they disagree

If her own papers do not agree with each other, fix that before touching the child record, or you will be doing this twice.

Find out which office holds the register

The place of birth decides it, not where you live now. One phone call before travelling saves a wasted day.

Ask that office for its own form and list

The conditions are set by the State Government, so the form and the supporting list can differ. Use theirs, not one downloaded elsewhere.

Apply under Section 15, in writing

Entry as it stands, name as it should read, her documents attached. Two copies, one stamped as received and kept by you.

Collect the corrected entry and read it

Expect the correction in the margin, signed and dated, with the original entry still there. Check the spelling before you leave the counter.

Then update the school record if it carries her name

In writing to the head of the institution, with the corrected certificate attached. Ask for an attested copy of the corrected register page.

Keep one folder for the family

The corrected certificate, her identity documents, and every application with its received stamp. This answers the question decades later.

The mistake that doubles the work. Correcting the child certificate to a form of the mother name that her own documents do not carry. You will have spent the time and the money and the two papers still disagree, which was the whole problem. Decide her settled form first, then move the child record to it. Never the other way round, and never both at once in different directions.

The full process

Central Gazette Process for a Name From Jharkhand, and Why a Birth Register Is Not It

Read this before the rest of this section, because it is the most misused page on the internet for this subject. A birth register is never corrected by a gazette. Section 15 puts that power with the Registrar, in the margin, signed and dated. So if your only problem is the mother name on a birth certificate, nothing below applies to you. It is printed in full for the separate case where the mother herself is genuinely changing her name across her own documents, or where a board or a panel asks for a published notice by name, and so that you recognise at once when a gazette file is being quoted for a register correction.

No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so the file goes from Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar or anywhere else in the state to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and the notice publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. As reported in July 2025 the Finance Department stopped personal name change notifications from the Jharkhand Government Press with immediate effect, so there is no state alternative to fall back on.

The Eight Steps of a Name Change File Sent From Jharkhand

Settle the final name first

Write it out letter by letter, with the spacing you want, and then use exactly that in every paper. A corrigendum after publication is a second fee and a second wait.

Pick the category, then its proforma

For a surname spelling this is almost always the public notice for a wrongly written name, not a change of name, because you are not taking a new name. Twelve categories exist and only one is yours, and picking the wrong one is how files come back.

Type the proforma in duplicate

Two originals, signed in the old spelling, with two witnesses giving signature, full name, address and mobile number on both copies. On a wrongly written name the wrong spelling has to be quoted exactly as it is printed on each certificate named.

Get the affidavit attested at the right level

A notary for the ordinary change of name, and a First Class Magistrate of the concerned area where the different surname guidelines apply. This is the step that catches people out.

Publish and keep the original paper

One of the daily local leading newspapers, carrying both spellings in full, the father's name and the address. The whole original paper goes in the file, not a cutting.

Pay only through BharatKosh

The Non Tax Receipt Portal and nowhere else since October 2018. Select the Department of Publication by name, read the amount the portal shows on the day, pay in your own name and print the e-receipt.

Check every date, then post it yourself

Nothing in the file older than one year. Personally or by post or courier only, never through an agent or advocate. Photocopy everything first, because nothing sent in comes back.

Read the notice, then download it

Check both spellings letter by letter the day it publishes, note the page and issue number, and download the e-Gazette copy of that Part IV issue.

The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked in Each

The five papers of a Central Gazette minor's name change file and what the Department checks in each
The paper	What is checked in it, clause by clause
1. The proforma, in duplicate	That it is the right category's format; the existing full name exactly as your documents carry it, surname included; the child's new full name exactly as you settled it; the father's or husband's name; the full address with pin code; the signature in the old name; two witnesses complete with signature, full name, address and mobile number
2. The affidavit or undertaking	Signed by the parent applying; the same names and address as the proforma, word for word; attested at the level the category asks for, which is a First Class Magistrate for the adopting a different surname route; on Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper as our safe default
3. The original newspaper	The original paper, not a cutting; the paper's name and date of publication visible; both of the child's names carried; the same spelling as the proforma; dated within the last year
4. Photographs, identity proof and any category paper	Two self attested passport photographs of each applicant and the child, which the minor guidelines ask for specifically; identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses' proofs; and whatever the category itself demands, such as a decree or a no objection certificate where the maiden surname requirement applies
5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt	MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name of the Guardian typed in place of the signature, which is where a minor file differs from an adult one; the certificate that the hard copy and the soft copy are the same; the forwarding letter to the Controller of Publication with a telephone number and email; the e-receipt

The proforma is where files are lost, and there are twelve to choose from. A maiden surname file typed on the ordinary change of name form, or a change of name typed on a surname form, comes back. The Government charge already paid is not refunded, because BharatKosh payments are non-refundable. You then have six months to make good a shortcoming the Department points out, after which a fresh application with all new documents is required.

What to select on BharatKosh, field by field. Pay to the Department of Publication under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and pick the Ministry, the Pay and Accounts Office and the Drawing and Disbursing Officer by their names in the dropdown, never by a code copied off a website. The codes printed for this office on different websites do not agree with each other, and money paid into the wrong head cannot be traced to your file. Read the amount on the portal on the day you pay, because it is revised each financial year.

How to read the published notice before you rely on it. Open the e-Gazette copy and check five things: that it says Part IV; the date of publication; your old full name exactly as your documents carry it, with the surname spelt as it appears there; the child's new name, letter by letter; and the father's or husband's name and address. Then note the page number and the issue number, because that is what an office will quote back to you at verification.

The posting detail is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the wording on the proforma format page, the charge by category on the fee and undertaking page, the reasons files come back on the rejection reasons page, and the download on the download page.

Cost and time

What a Mother Name Correction in a Birth Certificate Costs in Jharkhand

Cost and time for a mother name correction in a birth record in Jharkhand
Item	Cost	Time
Section 15 correction at the Registrar	The issuing office's own charges. No gazette charge at all. We do not print the office charge because it is set under State rules and we have not verified a current figure	Set by the office. We do not print a timeline we have not verified
Settling the mother own documents first, where they disagree	Each office's own charges, plus Rs 10 for an RTI application if a school register page has to be obtained that way	A few weeks per office, and they can run in parallel
One and the same person affidavit	Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper and the notary. Accepted by banks, employers and colleges. Usually refused by boards, passport counters and recruitment panels	The same day
One and the same person affidavit	Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper and the notary. Accepted by banks, employers and colleges. Usually refused by boards, passport counters and recruitment panels	The same day
Government printing charge	The minor guidelines print Rs 1,700 for a change of name of a minor with effect from 01.04.2016 to 31.03.2017. For comparison the adult guidelines print Rs 1,100 for the same year, and Rs 3,500 for an Indian living abroad. Every category's guidelines add that the charge varies each financial year and from case to case, so treat these as the order of the amount. What BharatKosh shows on the payment screen the day you pay is the figure that counts	Part IV publishes weekly, so allow several weeks from posting
Affidavit	Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper plus the attestation. A notary is enough for an ordinary public notice. A First Class Magistrate is only for the adopting a different surname route	Notary the same day; a magistrate needs a planned court visit
Newspaper	Paid to the paper, charged by length	Same week
Post or courier to Delhi	Sent in your own name from any district, and keep the receipt	A few days each way
Updating the records afterwards	Aadhaar charges a fee per attempt with no refund, and the other offices have their own small charges	Several weeks across all of them
Our charge	Quoted on your papers before you pay anything, and confirmed in writing. We print no service price on any page of this site

Do not trust a figure printed on any website, including this one, on the day you pay. The Department's own guidelines say the printing charge varies each financial year and from case to case, so the figures above are what the published guidelines show for 2016 to 2017 and are given so you know the order of the amount, not the amount. What BharatKosh shows when you reach the payment screen is the one that counts. Read it there and pay that.

The honest total for a mother name correction is usually the registrar office charge and nothing else, because no gazette is involved. What makes it expensive is being sold a gazette file for a register that only a Registrar can correct, or correcting the child certificate to a form of her name that her own documents do not carry and then having to do it again. Where several children's certificates are affected, each is its own register entry but they can be prepared together. Our name change cost page sets out the line items in full.

Set the record straight

Myths About Correcting a Mother Name in a Birth Certificate

Common beliefs about correcting a mother name in a birth record and what is actually correct
What people are told	What is actually so
A gazette notification will change it	It will not. Section 15 puts the power with the Registrar. A gazette is a published notice and it never rewrites a birth register, whatever the quotation says
You will get a clean new certificate with no trace of the old entry	The section says the correction is made by suitable entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, signed and dated. The old entry stays. That is the law, not an office failing
Correct the child certificate and you are done	Only if it now matches her own documents. Correcting it to a form her papers do not carry leaves the same mismatch, after you have paid for it
Kumari and Devi are surnames so the record is wrong	They are not surnames, and the record is not necessarily wrong. The question is which form her own documents carry today, because that is what every later check compares against
Apply at the office nearest your home	The register belongs to the place of birth. Whoever issued the certificate you hold is holding the register, and an old birth in a district that was later split may sit with the parent district
The mother has to apply	For a minor, a parent or guardian applies. For an adult, the adult applies about their own record, attaching her documents as proof
One application can cover all the children	Each certificate is its own register entry and needs its own application. They can be prepared together from one set of her documents, which saves work but not applications
An affidavit alone will fix the register	It will not. Section 15 asks for the error to be proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar, and that means her identity documents. An affidavit may be part of the file, never the whole of it

The question that ends a wrong quotation. Ask whoever is quoting you: which section gives a gazette the power to correct a birth register? There is not one. Section 15 gives it to the Registrar. We would rather tell a family this is one written application at a municipal counter than sell them a file they do not need.

Plain meanings

Key Terms in a Birth Record Correction

Key terms used when correcting a mother name in a birth record
Term	What it means in practice
Section 15	Of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969. The power to correct an entry that is erroneous in form or substance, exercised by the Registrar
Registrar	The officer holding the register for the place of birth. In Jharkhand that is a Municipal Corporation, a Nagar Parishad, a Nagar Panchayat or a block registrar
Marginal entry	How a correction is recorded: alongside the original, signed and dated by the Registrar. The original entry is not altered
Erroneous in form or substance	The statutory test. Wide enough to cover a misspelling, a wrong name and a name written in the wrong form
Proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar	Your application stands on the documents attached to it. This is why the mother own identity papers are the whole case
Register entry	The original record of the birth. Each child has one, which is why several children need several applications
Registration number	The number on the certificate identifying the entry. Quote it in the first line of any application
Place of birth	What decides which office holds the register. Not where the family lives now, however far they have moved since
Kumari and Devi	Honorific forms, not surnames. The reason one woman appears as two different people across a child certificate and her own papers
Correction	Putting a record right against documents already held. What this almost always is, and the cheapest route there is
Change of name	Taking a name no record carries. That belongs to the mother own documents, not to a child birth register
Received stamp	The office acknowledgement on your own copy. Without it, an application never happened

Coverage

Birth Record Correction Help Across Jharkhand

The Registrar office is wherever the birth was registered. Reading the certificate, deciding which form of the mother name the record should carry, checking whether her own papers need settling first, and drafting the application are done on your scans over WhatsApp, for every district in the state.

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Send the certificate for a check

Photograph the birth certificate as it stands, both sides, so we can read the mother name exactly as printed along with the registration number, the date and the issuing office. Then the mother own documents: Aadhaar, PAN, voter card, her Class 10 certificate and anything else carrying her name. If more than one child certificate is affected, send them all. The first reply tells you which form of her name the record should carry, whether her own papers need settling first, which office holds the register, and what the application should say. It also tells you plainly that this is a Registrar correction and not a gazette, before anybody quotes you otherwise. Details on the contact page.

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FAQ

Mother Name Correction in a Birth Certificate: Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a gazette to correct my mother name on a birth certificate?+

No. A birth register is corrected by the Registrar under Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, which allows a correction where an entry is erroneous in form or substance. A gazette is a published notice and it does not rewrite a register. If somebody quotes you for a gazette file for this, ask them which section gives a gazette that power. There is not one.

Will the corrected certificate look clean, with no sign of the old name?+

No, and this is the part almost nobody is told in advance. Section 15 says the Registrar corrects the error by suitable entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereto the date. So the original entry stays and the correction appears alongside it, signed and dated. That is what the law provides, not a failure by the office, and it is perfectly usable at any counter.

Which form of her name should the child certificate carry?+

The form her own documents carry today. Not the prettiest form, not the form the family uses at home, and not what the hospital happened to write. Every later check, a passport, a school admission, a recruitment verification, compares the child certificate against her papers side by side. Make those two agree and the question never arises.

She was registered as Kumari or Devi but her documents say a surname now.+

Extremely common across Jharkhand, and it is not anybody's mistake. Kumari and Devi are not surnames. A clerk reading the child certificate has no way of knowing that Sunita Kumari and Sunita Verma are one woman. Either bring the child record to her current documents, or settle her documents to match. What does not work is leaving the two in different worlds.

Should I fix her documents first or the child certificate first?+

Hers first, if her own papers disagree with each other. Decide the settled form of her name across her Aadhaar, PAN, voter card and school certificate, then move the child record to it. Correcting the child certificate to a form her papers do not carry means paying for the work and still holding a mismatch.

Which office do I apply to?+

The one holding the register for the place of birth, not where you live now. In Jharkhand that is the Municipal Corporation for a city birth, the Nagar Parishad or Nagar Panchayat for a town, and the block registrar for a village. Whoever issued the certificate you are holding is holding the register. For an old birth in a district that was split later, the record may sit with the parent district.

Who signs the application?+

If the child is a minor, a parent or guardian applies, and the child signs nothing. If the child is now an adult, the adult applies about their own record and attaches the mother documents as proof. Either way the application is about one register entry, so quote the registration number in the first line.

Several of my children have the same wrong entry. One application?+

Each certificate is its own register entry, so each needs its own application. The good news is that they can be prepared together from one set of her documents, and if they were all registered at the same office they can be handed in on the same day. That saves the work, not the applications.

Is an affidavit enough on its own?+

No. Section 15 asks for the error to be proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar, and your own statement is not proof of what her name is. Her identity documents are the case. An affidavit may form part of the file where the office asks for one, but it is never the whole of it.

What if her name was left blank on the certificate?+

That is a different request from a correction, and it should not be drafted from a template. Somebody needs to look at the actual register entry first, because what exists decides what can be asked for. Send us the certificate before anybody writes an application.

My mother has died. Can it still be corrected?+

Work from her certified records as the fixed point, since nothing of hers can drift any more. Whether a correction is possible depends on what those records show, so this needs the papers read before anything is drafted. We will tell you plainly if the answer is that it cannot be done.

What does it cost?+

Usually just the registrar office charge, because no gazette is involved. We do not print that charge, because the conditions are set under State Government rules and we have not verified a current figure, and we do not print a timeline we have not verified either. If her own documents need settling first, add each of those offices own charges and Rs 10 if an RTI application is needed for a school register page.

Who wrote and checked this page

Written and maintained by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk, led by founder Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, with 5+ years filing with the Department of Publication. Everything this page says about the power to correct a birth record is taken from Section 15 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, quoted in full on the page: that where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar that an entry is erroneous in form or substance, or has been fraudulently or improperly made, he may, subject to such rules as may be made by the State Government, correct the error or cancel the entry by suitable entry in the margin, without any alternation of the original entry, and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereto the date of the correction or cancellation. That the correction appears in the margin rather than as a clean reissue is the single most important thing on this page and the one most often misrepresented elsewhere. We have deliberately not printed an office address, a registrar charge or a processing timeline, because the conditions are set under State Government rules, the registering body depends on the place and the year, and we have not verified a current list or figure; a wrong address costs a reader a day they will not get back. That in Jharkhand a city birth sits with the Municipal Corporation, a town birth with the Nagar Parishad or Nagar Panchayat and a village birth with the block registrar, and that older records often sit with the parent district after a split, is our own working knowledge from filing these cases. The PAN position, that since a 2018 change the applicant may choose which parent name is printed and the mother name is allowed where she is a single parent applying with her name only, is stated as background for why the birth certificate matters so much. We do not print office, school or registrar charges, which vary. We are a documentation consultancy and not advocates. Who we are is on the about page.

Last reviewed 21 September 2026 • 9540005002 • info@jharkhandnamechange.com • Jharkhandnamechange.com is a private documentation consultancy and is not the Department of Publication, the Controller of Publication, a court, a law firm or any Government office. This page is general information, not legal advice.

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Official Sources on Birth Register Corrections

The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969The Act itself, including Section 15 on correction or cancellation of an entry, and Section 14 on entering the name of a child.
Section 15, correction or cancellation of entry in the registerThe full text quoted on this page: erroneous in form or substance, corrected by suitable entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, signed and dated.
Civil Registration SystemThe national portal behind birth and death registration, for the wider system your register sits in.
JharSewa, the Jharkhand Government service portalWhere Jharkhand certificates are applied for and verified, and a starting point for locating the right office.
UIDAI list of supporting documentsWhat Aadhaar accepts, relevant because Aadhaar carries no mother name field at all.
Jharkhand Academic CouncilThe board that holds and corrects the school record, where a mother name may also appear.
Department of Publication, guidelines for change of nameThe twelve categories, for the separate case where the mother herself is changing her name across her own documents.
BharatKosh, Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only channel for the Government gazette charge, in the cases that genuinely need one.

Quick Summary

A Mother Name Correction in Eight Lines

The short version

Section 15 gives the correction power to the Registrar, never to a gazette.
The test is an entry erroneous in form or substance.
The correction goes in the margin and the original entry is never altered.
It is signed and dated by the Registrar, which is what makes it usable.
Put her name in the form her own documents carry today.
Settle her papers first if they disagree, then move the child record.
Apply where the birth was registered, not where you live now.
Each child certificate is its own entry and needs its own application.

Send the birth certificate and her own documents, and we will tell you which form the record should carry.

The certificate both sides, plus her Aadhaar, PAN, voter card and school certificate. If more than one child certificate is affected, send them all together.

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