Name Change in Electricity Bill in Jharkhand
Two completely different jobs are hiding behind this one phrase, and families waste months by asking for the wrong one. If your own name is simply spelt wrongly on your own connection, that is a small billing correction. If the bill is still in your late father's name, or the name of the person you bought the house from, that is not a name correction at all. It is a transfer of connection under the Jharkhand State Electricity Supply Code, and it comes with its own requirements: proof of ownership or occupancy, a no objection certificate, and every rupee of outstanding dues on that connection settled first. The Code also gives you something most pages on this site cannot: a written time limit of thirty days.
Decide first which of the two things you actually want, because they are not variations of one job. One, your own name is spelt wrongly on your own connection. Nothing is being transferred and nobody else is involved. This is a billing related service request to your supplier, raised through the consumer login, and JBVNL's own guidance is to clear pending dues first and then apply under the service request menu. Note that self correction of consumer identity details is disabled, so you are asking the supplier to make the change, not editing it yourself. Two, the connection stands in somebody else's name. A late parent, or the seller of the house. This is a transfer of connection, and the Jharkhand State Electricity Supply Code 2015 sets it out plainly. Clause 7.12.2 allows a connection to be transferred "upon death of the consumer or in case of transfer of the ownership or occupancy of the premises". Clause 7.12.3(a) requires proof of ownership or occupancy and a no objection certificate from the registered consumer, authorised person or previous occupant, and states that the request "shall not be accepted unless all dues recoverable against the concerned connection are settled". Where the consumer has died, clause 7.12.4(a) asks for a registered will or deed, a succession or legal heir certificate, mutation in municipal or land records, or other proof of legal heirship. And the part worth knowing before you start: clause 7.12.3(c) says the change "shall be effected within thirty (30) days from receipt of complete application". Before any of it, read the top of your own bill and check who actually supplies you, because in this state it is not always JBVNL.
Two Different Jobs Behind One Phrase: Correcting a Name and Transferring a Connection
When somebody rings us about the name on an electricity bill, the first question we ask is whose name is currently printed on it. The answer sends the file down one of two roads that share almost nothing.
| Your situation | What it is and what it needs |
|---|---|
| The connection is already in your name and the spelling is wrong | A billing related service request to your supplier. Nothing is transferred, nobody else is involved, and no ownership document is needed. JBVNL's guidance is to clear pending dues, then apply through the consumer login under the service request menu, because self correction of identity details is disabled |
| The bill is in your late father's or mother's name | A transfer of connection on death, under clause 7.12.2 of the Supply Code. You will need proof of legal heirship, which clause 7.12.4(a) describes as a registered will or deed, a succession or legal heir certificate, mutation in municipal or land records, or other proof. This is the commonest real case and it is not a spelling matter at all |
| You bought the house and the bill still carries the seller's name | Also a transfer of connection, on transfer of ownership. Clause 7.12.3(a) wants proof of ownership or occupancy and a no objection certificate from the previous consumer or occupant. Get that NOC at the time of purchase, not two years later when the seller has moved away |
| You are a tenant and want the bill in your name | The Code speaks of ownership or occupancy, so occupancy proof and the owner's no objection matter here. Settle with the owner in writing first, because a supplier will not referee a landlord dispute |
| The name is right but the address or the meter details are wrong | A different service request again, and worth raising separately rather than bundling into a name question. Mixed requests are how these files stall |
What the Jharkhand Electricity Supply Code Requires, Clause by Clause
This is the part no other page on this subject gives you, and it is the reason to read this one. The rules are not a counter's opinion. They are written down in the Jharkhand State Electricity Supply Code 2015, published in the Jharkhand Gazette and hosted on the supplier's own website, and you can quote them.
| Clause | What it says, and what it means for you |
|---|---|
| 7.12.2, when a transfer is allowed | A connection may be transferred into another person's name "upon death of the consumer or in case of transfer of the ownership or occupancy of the premises". Those are the two doors. If neither applies to you, you are probably looking at a correction rather than a transfer |
| 7.12.3(a), what a transfer needs | "The application form shall be accepted on showing proof of ownership/occupancy of property. A No Objection Certificate from the registered consumer/ authorised person/ previous occupant of the premises shall be required." Two things, then: a document showing the premises are yours, and a no objection from whoever held the connection before you |
| 7.12.3(a), on dues | "The request for transfer of connection shall not be accepted unless all dues recoverable against the concerned connection are settled." This is absolute and it is where most transfers stop. Ask for the outstanding figure early |
| 7.12.4(a), where the consumer has died | Proof of legal heirship is described as a "Registered Will/deed, Succession/Legal heir Certificate, Mutation in municipal/land records or any other proof of legal heirship". Note the words any other proof, which matter in families that hold none of the first three |
| 7.12.3(c) and 7.12.4(b), the time limit | "Change of consumer's name shall be effected within thirty (30) days from receipt of complete application along with payment of necessary charges, if any." The same thirty days applies to a legal heir transfer. This is a written commitment, and the words that carry the weight are complete application |
| What the Code does not cover | It sets out the transfer framework. It does not separately deal with correcting the particulars of an existing consumer, which is why a plain spelling correction is handled as an ordinary billing related service request rather than under clause 7.12 |
Who Actually Supplies Your Electricity in Jharkhand, and Why It Matters
Almost every article on this subject assumes one supplier for the whole state. That is not how Jharkhand works, and applying to the wrong organisation is a wasted month. Before you do anything else, read the name printed at the top of your own bill.
| What to check | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| The name printed on the bill | This is the organisation you apply to, and the only one that can act on your connection. Everything else on this page follows from getting this right. It takes ten seconds and almost nobody does it |
| Most of the state is served by JBVNL, the Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam | The clauses quoted on this page come from the Supply Code hosted on JBVNL's own website, and its consumer login is where a billing related service request is raised |
| Jamshedpur and some surrounding industrial areas are not supplied by JBVNL | Supply in and around the Tata Steel township has long been provided by a separate licensee rather than the state utility. If that is your area, apply to whoever is named on your bill and ask that organisation for its own procedure, because it is not obliged to follow another licensee's process sheet |
| Parts of the Damodar valley belt, around the Dhanbad and Bokaro industrial areas | Supply arrangements there have historically involved the Damodar Valley Corporation as well as the state utility. Again, the bill in your hand is the authority on who bills you, not a general article |
| Company townships, collieries and steel plant quarters | Supply may run through the employer rather than a public licensee, and the name on the bill will tell you. Quarters allotted with employment are a different matter again, because occupancy is tied to the job |
| The consumer number and the division or subdivision name | Note these before you write to anybody. Every request should quote them, and a request without a consumer number is difficult to act on even when everything else is correct |
How to Change the Name on an Electricity Bill in Jharkhand, Step by Step
Read the bill and decide which job it is
Whose name is on it now. Your own with a wrong spelling is a service request. Somebody else's name is a transfer. Note the supplier's name, the consumer number and the division while the bill is in your hand.
Ask for the outstanding dues figure first
Before anything else on a transfer, because clause 7.12.3(a) says the request shall not be accepted until all dues on the connection are settled. If you are buying a property, ask before you agree the price.
Get the no objection certificate while you can
From the previous consumer or occupant. It permits the transfer and it is what carries the existing security deposit across. Collect it at the time of purchase, not years later when the seller has moved.
Assemble the ownership or heirship proof
Ownership or occupancy proof for a purchase. For a death, a registered will or deed, succession or legal heir certificate, mutation in municipal or land records, or other proof of legal heirship.
Settle how the name should read
Exactly as your other records carry it, letter by letter. There is no point moving a connection into a form of your name that your Aadhaar and bank do not use, because the bill is wanted as proof of address.
Apply through the right channel
For a JBVNL billing correction, the consumer login under the service request menu, after dues are cleared. For a transfer, the prescribed application with the latest paid bill and your proofs.
Get it confirmed as complete, in writing
Because the thirty days runs from a complete application. Ask the office to confirm nothing further is required, keep that reply, and keep your own copy with the received stamp.
Check the next bill, not the acknowledgement
The proof that this worked is the next bill printed in the right name. Read it letter by letter when it arrives, and raise any remaining difference straight away rather than a year later.
Where your own name needs settling across records first, start at name spelling correction. Where a property is involved, see name change in property documents, and for the identity records that the bill is usually wanted to support, see name change in Aadhaar card.
Central Gazette Process for a Name From Jharkhand, and Where It Fits an Electricity Connection
No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so a genuine 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 File Sent From Jharkhand
Settle the final name first
Letter by letter, with the spacing you want, and then use exactly that everywhere, Aadhaar included. A corrigendum after publication is a second fee and a second wait.
Pick the category, then its proforma
A genuine change of name is change of Name Adult or Major. A wrongly typed spelling is the public notice for a wrongly written name. Twelve categories exist and only one is yours.
Type the proforma in duplicate
Two originals with two witnesses giving signature, full name, address and mobile number on both copies. A change of name is signed in the old name; a public notice is signed in your own name.
Fill the employment field if it is a change of name
The adult proforma asks for the post of the applicant and the office or company name, a field the public notice form does not have. Salaried applicants leave it blank and the file comes back.
Publish and keep the original paper
One of the daily local leading newspapers, carrying both names in full, the father or husband name and the residential 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 update the records
Check every word the day it publishes, download the e-Gazette copy of that Part IV issue, and then work through Aadhaar first and the electricity connection after it.
The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked in Each
| The paper | What is checked in it, clause by clause |
|---|---|
| 1. The proforma, in duplicate | That it is the right category format; the existing full name exactly as your documents carry it; the new full name exactly as settled; the father or husband name; the full address with pin code; the post and office or company name where it is a change of name; the signature in the right name for the category; two witnesses complete with signature, full name, address and mobile number |
| 2. The affidavit or undertaking | The same names and address as the proforma, word for word, with wording matching the category. On Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper as our safe default |
| 3. The original newspaper | The original paper, not a cutting; the paper name and date of publication visible; both names carried; the father or husband name and residential address; dated within the last year |
| 4. Photographs, identity proof and any category paper | Two self attested passport photographs; self attested identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses proofs; and, in a public notice file, the attested photocopy of the connected document carrying the error |
| 5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt | MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name typed in place of the signature; 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 posting detail is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the change of name wording on the proforma format page and the public notice wording on the public notice proforma 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.
What an Electricity Bill Name Change Costs in Jharkhand
| Item | Cost | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding dues on the connection | Whatever is owed, in full. Clause 7.12.3(a) says a transfer "shall not be accepted unless all dues recoverable against the concerned connection are settled". This is usually the largest figure in the whole exercise and it is somebody else's spending, not yours | Immediate, and it blocks everything until it is done |
| Security deposit | With an NOC from the previous owner the existing deposit can come across. Without it, expect to pay a fresh deposit. That is the clearest money reason to collect the NOC at the time of purchase | Charged at the time of transfer |
| The transfer or name change charge itself | Clause 7.12.3(c) refers to "payment of necessary charges, if any" without fixing an amount here, so we do not print a figure. Ask your supplier what it charges, and be careful of any website quoting a confident all India number | Thirty days from a complete application, under clauses 7.12.3(c) and 7.12.4(b) |
| A plain spelling correction on your own connection | A billing related service request rather than a transfer, with no ownership document and no NOC. We do not print a charge, because we have not verified one | Set by the supplier. The thirty day clause is written for a change of consumer name |
| Succession or legal heir certificate, where the consumer has died and the family holds no will or mutation | The issuing office own charge. We do not print court or office charges we have not verified. Note that clause 7.12.4(a) also allows mutation in municipal or land records or any other proof of legal heirship, so this is not always the only road | Set by the office |
| Affidavit, where the supplier asks for one | Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper and the notary charge. Two originals, because the office keeps one | The same day |
| Government printing charge, only in a genuine change of your own name | The guidelines print Rs 1,100 for an adult change of name and Rs 1,400 for a public notice, for FY 2016 to 2017, each with the caveat that the charge varies each financial year and from case to case. 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 |
| 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 | |
On this page the real money is almost never the application. It is the arrears somebody else left on the connection and, where no NOC was obtained, a fresh security deposit. Both are avoidable, and both are avoided at the same moment: when the property changes hands and the other party is still standing in front of you. Our name change cost page sets out the line items in full.
Send the bill and we will tell you which job it is
Photograph the whole electricity bill, both sides if it is printed both sides, so we can read the supplier name at the top, the consumer number, the division or subdivision and the name exactly as it is printed. Tell us in one line whose name that is: yours, a late parent's, or the person you bought from. If a death is involved, send whatever the family holds, a will, a succession or legal heir certificate, or a mutation entry in municipal or land records. If it is a purchase, send the sale deed and the NOC if you have one. Our first reply tells you whether this is a billing correction or a transfer under clause 7.12, what the Code requires for your version of it, and what to ask the office for first. Details on the contact page.
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Myths About an Electricity Bill Name Change in Jharkhand
| What people are told | What is actually so |
|---|---|
| Changing the name on the bill is one simple request | It is two different jobs. Correcting a spelling on your own connection is a billing service request. Getting the bill out of a late parent's or a seller's name is a transfer of connection under clause 7.12, with ownership proof, an NOC and dues cleared |
| The old arrears are the previous owner's problem | They are yours the moment you want the connection. The Code says the request "shall not be accepted unless all dues recoverable against the concerned connection are settled". Dues follow the connection, not the person. Ask the figure before you buy |
| You need a gazette notification for this | No. A connection is corrected or transferred, never published. A gazette matters only where you are genuinely changing your own name across all your records, and even then the connection simply follows the change |
| The NOC is just a formality you can skip | It does two jobs. It permits the transfer, and it is what lets the existing security deposit come across to you. Skip it and expect to pay a fresh deposit, which is real money |
| Nothing can be done because there is no will | Clause 7.12.4(a) lists a registered will or deed, a succession or legal heir certificate, mutation in municipal or land records, or any other proof of legal heirship. Those last five words matter, and families who assume a court is the only road often have a mutation entry already |
| They can take as long as they like | The Code says the change "shall be effected within thirty (30) days from receipt of complete application". Get the office to confirm your application is complete, in writing, and the thirty days becomes a date you can point to |
| All of Jharkhand is supplied by JBVNL | It is not. Jamshedpur and some surrounding industrial areas, and parts of the Damodar valley belt, are not supplied by the state utility. The name on your bill is the authority, and applying to the wrong organisation wastes a month |
| You can edit your own details online | JBVNL's guidance indicates that self correction of consumer identity details is disabled for data security reasons. You are asking the supplier to make the change through a service request, not editing it yourself |
Key Terms in an Electricity Connection Name Change
| Term | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Supply Code | The Jharkhand State Electricity Supply Code 2015, published in the Jharkhand Gazette and hosted on the supplier's website. The written rules behind everything on this page |
| Clause 7.12 | The part of the Code dealing with transfer of a connection, including on death and on transfer of ownership or occupancy |
| Transfer of connection | Moving a connection into a different person's name. What most people actually mean by a name change on a bill |
| Change of consumer name | The Code's own phrase for the result of a transfer, and the thing the thirty day limit is written about |
| Service request | An ordinary billing request to your supplier, which is how a plain spelling correction on your own connection is raised |
| Consumer number | The number identifying your connection. Quote it in every letter, because a request without it is hard to act on |
| No objection certificate | Written consent from the registered consumer, authorised person or previous occupant. Permits the transfer and carries the security deposit across |
| Security deposit | The deposit held against the connection. It can follow the connection to you with an NOC, and without one you may pay it again |
| Proof of ownership or occupancy | What clause 7.12.3(a) asks for. Note that occupancy is named as well as ownership, which matters to tenants |
| Proof of legal heirship | A registered will or deed, a succession or legal heir certificate, a mutation entry, or any other proof. The route where the consumer has died |
| Mutation | The change of name in municipal or land records. Named in the Code as acceptable heirship proof, and often already done in families who think they have nothing |
| Complete application | The words the thirty day limit hangs on. An incomplete application never starts the clock, which is why it is worth getting completeness confirmed in writing |
Electricity Connection Name Change Help Across Jharkhand
Your subdivision office is where the connection is, and in this state your supplier may not even be the same organisation as your neighbour's two districts away. Reading the bill to identify the supplier, deciding whether you need a correction or a transfer under clause 7.12, and assembling the ownership or heirship proof is done on your scans over WhatsApp, for every district.
District pages are linked from the services page.
Electricity Bill Name Change in Jharkhand: Frequently Asked Questions
The bill is still in my late father's name. What do I actually need?
My own name is simply spelt wrongly. Is that the same process?
Do I have to pay the previous owner's unpaid bills?
How long should it take?
What is the NOC for, and can I skip it?
We have no will and no succession certificate. Is it hopeless?
I am a tenant. Can the bill be in my name?
Do I need a gazette notification for this?
Is JBVNL my supplier?
My supplier is not JBVNL. Do these clauses apply to me?
What should the application actually contain?
What does it cost?
Official Sources on Electricity Connection Transfer in Jharkhand
- Jharkhand State Electricity Supply Code 2015The Code itself, published in the Jharkhand Gazette and hosted by JBVNL. Clause 7.12 carries every transfer rule quoted on this page, including the thirty day limit.
- JBVNL frequently asked questionsThe supplier's own guidance on clearing dues first, raising a billing related service request, the NOC and the security deposit.
- Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam LimitedThe state distribution company, for the consumer login, your division and subdivision, and the current application formats.
- JBVNL SUVIDHA consumer portalWhere a JBVNL consumer registers and raises service requests against a consumer number.
- Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory CommissionThe regulator that frames the Supply Code and hears consumer grievances beyond the licensee.
- Department of Energy, Government of JharkhandThe department behind electricity administration in the state.
- Department of PublicationFor the twelve gazette categories and their proformas, in the separate case where your own name is genuinely being changed.
- BharatKosh, the Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only route for the Government printing charge since October 2018, and the only place the amount of the day can be read.
An Electricity Bill Name Change in Eight Lines
The short version
- Two jobs hide behind one phrase, so decide which one you need.
- Your own spelling wrong is a billing service request, nothing more.
- Somebody else's name on the bill is a transfer under clause 7.12.
- A transfer needs ownership or occupancy proof and an NOC.
- No transfer is accepted until all dues on the connection are settled.
- On a death, a mutation entry counts as proof of legal heirship.
- The Code allows thirty days from a complete application.
- Read your bill first, because not all of Jharkhand is supplied by JBVNL.
Send the bill and we will tell you whether this is a correction or a transfer.
Those two roads share almost nothing. One is a service request. The other needs ownership proof, an NOC and every rupee of arrears cleared before anybody will touch it.