CGHS Card Name Correction in Uttarakhand

• What it is. The central Government's health scheme for its serving employees, its pensioners and their dependent family members, in the cities the scheme covers.
• In this state. The scheme's published answers list Dehradun among its cities.
• The dispensary. Each beneficiary is attached to a wellness centre, where the doctor is seen and medicines are issued.
• Who issues the card. The office of the Additional Director of the scheme for the city. Guides say cards are handed over through the wellness centre.
• Who gets a card. The main cardholder and each dependant, each with a card of their own under one family record.

The scheme is run by the health ministry, but a serving employee reaches it through the employee's own office. That is the thing to remember about a correction too.

For a Government servant the service record is the anchor. Other papers are brought to it, unless the name itself has changed, in which case the record is changed by the service procedure.

Step 1: Look at every card in the family

Each member has a card. Read the name, the relationship and the date of birth on each.

Step 2: Find the paper the card was made from

The application as it was submitted, and behind it the service record or the pension payment order.

Step 3: Put Aadhaar beside them

Yours and each dependant's.

Step 4: Decide where the difference began

In the card only, in the application, in the service or pension record, or in Aadhaar.

Step 5: Correct the root record first

The service record through your office, the pension record through the pension office, Aadhaar at an Aadhaar centre.

Step 6: Apply for the card to be corrected

A serving employee through the office. A pensioner to the Additional Director's office of the city.

Step 7: Attach the proof for each name

The corrected record, identity papers, and a marriage or birth certificate for a dependant.

Step 8: Collect the fresh card and read it

Then check that the dispensary's own screen shows the same.

• A pensioner applies to the Additional Director's office of the city, with the pension payment order. Guides say an employee can apply with the pension papers before retiring.
• The pension payment order is the pensioner's root paper. A spelling in it travels to the bank, the card and every later claim.
• The order usually names the spouse who will receive family pension. That name is the one she will be held to.
• Many central pensioners settle in Dehradun and the hills after service elsewhere. Their order was issued by an office far away, and a correction is asked for through the pension disbursing bank or the pension authority.
• A family pensioner, after the pensioner's death, has the card made in her own name. Her name on the order, on her Aadhaar and on her bank account should be one.

Read name change in pension and family pension records.

1. At the wellness centre. The card is read at registration. The staff know regular patients, and a spelling rarely stops anyone.
2. At an empanelled hospital. The admission desk has never seen the patient. It reads the card against an identity paper before treating a case as cashless.
3. On a referral or a permission. The paper carries the name on the card. The hospital's bill then has to carry the same.
4. On a reimbursement claim. The bills, the discharge summary and the card are read together by the office that pays.
5. In an emergency. Treatment should not wait for a card. Show what you have and sort the papers afterwards.

Give the card's name, not a home name, at the hospital's desk, so that the discharge papers and the bill come out in it. Read hospital records name correction.

Step 1: Follow the service procedure first, if you are serving

A Government servant's change of name has its own steps, and the Gazette is one of them.

Step 2: Confirm that it is a change of name, and not a spelling

A spelling is corrected in the record that carries it.

Step 3: Fix the exact new name

The spelling that will go on the service or pension record, Aadhaar and the card.

Step 4: Make the deed or affidavit and publish the newspaper notice

As the service procedure or the publication guideline asks. Keep the original newspaper.

Step 5: Type the form and sign the undertaking

Two typed copies of the specimen, signed in your old name with two witnesses, and the undertaking.

Step 6: Prepare the CD, photographs and certificate

The same text on a CD in MS Word, two self-attested photographs with identity proof, and a certificate that both copies match.

Step 7: Pay the charge on BharatKosh

Commonly Rs 1,100 for an adult. It is not refunded. Confirm the charge that applies to a Government servant.

Step 8: Send the file, then update in order

Send it to the Controller of Publications, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. Then the service or pension record, Aadhaar, and last the card.

See gazette name change in Uttarakhand.

A typical case we handle: a retired central employee settled in Dehradun found, when his wife was referred to a hospital, that her card read "Kamla Rani" while her Aadhaar read "Kamla Sharma". He asked us for a Gazette. Her name had not changed by choice. She had taken his surname on marriage, and his pension order still carried the name he had written in 1988. He had the pension record corrected on the marriage certificate, and the card was then remade. This is an illustrative example of the type of case we handle, not a named client review.

When you do not need us

For a slip on the card, a spelling in a record, or a married surname. Your office, the pension authority and the scheme's office settle those. We are useful where a cardholder or a dependant has changed a name by choice, and a Gazette notification is asked for.

How do I correct my name on a CGHS card?

Through your office if serving, or at the Additional Director's office if a pensioner.

How do I add my spouse to my CGHS card?

By the form for addition, endorsed by your department if you are serving.

Which name is printed on a CGHS card?

The name on the application, taken from the service or pension record.

Is a gazette needed for a CGHS card name correction?

No, for a slip. Yes, where the name itself has changed.

Can a pensioner correct a dependant's name on the card?

Yes, after the pension record carries the right name.

Is there a CGHS dispensary in Uttarakhand?

Dehradun is among the scheme's cities.

Can I correct my CGHS details online?

Yes, for many errors. The scheme's April 2025 office memorandum advises beneficiaries over 18 to link PAN with their Beneficiary ID and to apply for corrections through the beneficiary login on www.cghs.mohfw.gov.in.

Is PAN now linked to the CGHS card?

Yes. Under the new system each beneficiary is mapped to a PAN-based unique identifier, and adults are advised to link PAN with their Beneficiary ID. The name on PAN should match the card.

What is the new CGHS website?

From 28 April 2025 the scheme moved to www.cghs.mohfw.gov.in, and the old sites cghs.gov.in and cghs.nic.in were deactivated. Use only the new portal for applications and corrections.

Can a dependant be added to the CGHS card online?

Yes. The 2025 system lets beneficiaries apply online for card transfer, adding a dependant and changing the card type. Enter each dependant's name exactly as on Aadhaar.

Is the electronic CGHS card valid?

Yes. A 2024 office memorandum says the electronic card, available through the beneficiary login, is on par with the plastic card. It carries the same name, so check it too.

How is the CGHS contribution paid now?

Reports say that from 28 April 2025 contributions are paid only through the CGHS portal, not BharatKosh. Pay in the name and Beneficiary ID shown on your card.