Corbett Safari Permit Name Mismatch in Uttarakhand

From the reserve's terms and conditions as published by sellers of its tours, and from booking guides. Read the present terms on the forest department's portal before you book.

Read together, these say one thing. The list is fixed when you pay. Whoever is on it, as typed, is who can go in.

The third is the one people talk themselves into. It is not a clerical matter. A person entering a tiger reserve on another's identity is doing something the reserve's terms forbid.

Step 1: Before booking, collect a photograph of each visitor's identity paper

The same paper each will carry to the gate.

Step 2: Type each name, age and identity number from the photograph

Not from memory, and not from a message.

Step 3: Choose the kind of identity paper each person will in fact bring

A permit made on a passport is not opened by an Aadhaar card.

Step 4: Read the whole list before paying

Reservations are not open to change afterwards, by the reserve's terms.

Step 5: Download the permit and read it again

Every name, and every number.

Step 6: If you find a slip, contact the reserve's reception at once

Ask what can be done. Do not assume, and do not wait for the gate.

Step 7: Carry the original identity paper named on the permit, for each visitor

A photocopy or a different paper may not be accepted.

Step 8: Reach the gate early

So that a question can be asked and answered before the vehicles leave.

• Many visitors book through a resort or a travel agent, who enters the names on the portal.
• The agent types from a message: "Rohit, wife, two kids".
• He fills the gaps as best he can, and a name or a number comes out wrong.
• Send him a photograph of each identity paper, and say that the names and numbers are to be copied from them.
• Ask for the permit itself, not a confirmation message, some days before the safari. Read it.
• Pay an agent's fee if you choose to, but know what the permit costs on the portal.

Read tourism registration name mismatch, on the operators and guides who are registered with the state.

• A child is entered as the booking form asks. Carry whatever paper it accepted, or the birth certificate.
• An elder's identity paper may carry a single name or an old spelling. Book in exactly that, not in the name the family uses.
• A wife's paper may be in her maiden name. Book in the paper's name.
• A foreign visitor is booked on the passport, with the name as its first page prints it, and carries it.
• Foreign visitors are charged differently at many reserves. Entering one as an Indian to save money is not a slip. It is a false declaration.
• Where one member's paper is in doubt, settle it before paying for the whole group.

Read long name cut short on cards and forms and flight ticket name mismatch.

Step 1: Confirm that your own name has in fact changed

A slip typed in a booking is not a change of name.

Step 2: Do not think of a Gazette for a safari

It takes weeks. A permit is for one morning.

Step 3: Fix the exact new name

The spelling that will go on Aadhaar and the passport.

Step 4: Make the affidavit and publish the newspaper notice

Sign before a notary. Publish in a daily local leading newspaper, and 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.

Step 8: Send the file yourself, then update your identity papers

Send it to the Controller of Publications, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. Book later trips in the name the papers then carry.

See gazette name change in Uttarakhand.

A typical case we handle: a family from the plains booked a morning safari through their resort. The permit listed the grandmother as "Mrs Sharma", with an identity number that was her son's. At the gate she could not be matched, and stayed behind while the others went in. Her son wrote to us afterwards, asking if her name needed "correcting somewhere". It did not. Her papers were in order. The slip was in a booking typed from a message. For their next visit he sent the resort photographs of each card, and read the permit himself. This is an illustrative example of the type of case we handle, not a named client review.

When you do not need us

For every safari permit. The portal and the reserve's reception settle it. We are useful only where a person has changed a name by choice and identity papers need a Gazette notification.

Can a name be changed on a Corbett safari permit?

The terms say reservations cannot be changed. Ask the reception.

Which ID is needed for a Corbett safari?

The original identity paper used at booking.

Can someone else go on my Corbett permit?

No. Permits are not transferable.

What if there is a spelling mistake on the permit?

Call the reception before the day.

Is a gazette needed for a Corbett safari permit name mismatch?

No.

Where is a Corbett safari booked?

On the forest department's own portal.

When was Corbett National Park established?

In 1936, as Hailey National Park, the first national park in India. It was renamed Ramganga National Park in 1952 and Corbett National Park in 1956, and became a Project Tiger reserve in 1973.

How many tigers are there in Corbett?

Guides give about 260 tigers, from the Tiger Census of 2022. That is the reason entry is rationed and every visitor named.

How many safari zones does Corbett have?

The reserve's own portal says it is divided into six tourism zones, each with its own entry gate. Bijrani is entered at Amdanda and Dhikala at Dhangari. Some guides list up to eight zones, adding Garjia, Pakhro and Sonanadi.

When does the Dhikala zone open?

The reserve's portal says Dhikala reopens from 15 November each year, Durga Devi and Bijrani from 15 October, and Jhirna and Dhela remain open through the year.

Is ID proof needed both for booking and for entry?

Yes. Guides say an identity paper is mandatory for booking and again for entry. Carry the same paper whose number is on the permit.

How do visitors go into Dhikala?

The reserve's portal says day visits to the Dhikala zone are permitted only by specially conducted buses. Each passenger is still named on the permit.