Inner Line Permit Name Mismatch in Uttarakhand: Adi Kailash and Border Valleys

From the state tourism corporation's terms for its Adi Kailash tours, a news report on permits in Chamoli, and travel guides. The permit office has the present requirements.

One guide adds, from experience, that name mismatches across the identity paper, the medical certificate and the application form are a common cause of delay. That is the subject of this page.

The first is the commonest. A doctor filling many certificates for a tour group writes names as they are called out. Nobody reads them until the permit window.

Step 1: Choose the one identity paper you will apply on and carry

Aadhaar, a voter card or a passport. Everything else is written from it.

Step 2: Write your name and your father's name from it, on a slip of paper

Take the slip to the police station, the doctor and the notary.

Step 3: Get the police verification in exactly that name

At your own police station, within the time the permit office asks.

Step 4: Get the medical certificate in exactly that name

Ask the doctor to write it in capitals, with your age as on the identity paper.

Step 5: Have the affidavit typed in exactly that name

And read it before the notary signs.

Step 6: Lay the four papers side by side before you travel

Identity paper, verification, medical certificate, affidavit. One name, one father's name, one age.

Step 7: Apply, online or at the permit office, from the identity paper

And read the permit when it is issued.

Step 8: Carry the permit and the original identity paper to every check post

With copies, which posts may keep.

• The journey goes high, and a certificate of fitness is asked for.
• A doctor writes it by hand, often on a printed form, with the name as he hears it.
• Hand him the slip with your name and age as on the identity paper, and ask for capitals.
• See that it carries his name, registration number and stamp, which the permit office looks for.
• A slip is corrected and countersigned by him. A certificate with a scratched-out name and no signature beside it invites a question.
• Guides say a certificate can also be had at the Government hospital at the starting point. That costs a day.

Read hospital discharge summary and medical records name correction, on a doctor's papers generally.

• The state tourism corporation says the police verification form is not required where a passport is submitted as the identity paper and the original is brought on the journey.
• A passport is itself issued after a police check, which is the likely reason.
• That removes one certificate, and one hand that might write the name loosely.
• The other papers are then written from the passport, in the passport's form of the name.
• A passport's name is in two boxes. Write both on the certificates, in an order that plainly matches.
• If your passport and Aadhaar differ from each other, choose one and use it throughout.

Confirm with the permit office that this still holds before relying on it. Read name change in passport.

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

A doctor's short form or a constable's spelling is not a change of name.

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

It takes weeks. The certificates for a permit are valid for days.

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. Apply for later permits in the name the papers then carry.

See gazette name change in Uttarakhand.

A typical case we handle: a retired teacher from Dehradun reached Dharchula with a tour group for Adi Kailash. His Aadhaar read "Jagdish Prasad Nautiyal". His medical certificate read "J P Nautiyal", and his police verification "Jagdish Nautiyal". The permit window asked for papers in one name. His daughter rang us to ask if an affidavit from us could join the three. It could not, and none was needed. He took a fresh medical certificate at the Government hospital there, and the police station at home issued a corrected verification. He left behind his group. 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 permit. The police station, the doctor, the notary and the permit office settle the names. We are useful only where a person has changed a name by choice and identity papers need a Gazette notification.

Which documents are needed for the Adi Kailash permit?

An identity paper, medical certificate, police verification and affidavit.

Who issues the inner line permit for Adi Kailash?

The sub-divisional magistrate at Dharchula.

Is police verification needed if I have a passport?

The state tourism corporation says it is not.

What if my medical certificate has a different name?

Have the doctor correct it, or take a fresh one.

Is a gazette needed for an inner line permit name mismatch?

No.

What does the permit show?

Name, father's name, age and the days allowed.

Which villages need an inner line permit on the Adi Kailash route?

Guides list Gunji, Nabi, Kuti, Kalapani, Nabhidhang and Jolingkong, in the Vyas valley beyond Dharchula.

Can the Adi Kailash permit be applied for online?

Guides say the Pithoragarh administration has run an online portal in recent seasons, with final checks still made at Dharchula. Check that it is working before relying on it.

How long does the permit take?

Guides say one to three working days in recent seasons, and longer in the May and June rush. A paper in the wrong name adds to that.

What does the inner line permit cost?

Guides give very different figures, from a nominal fee to a few hundred rupees. Ask the sub-divisional magistrate's office at Dharchula for the present fee.

Do foreign nationals need a different permit?

Guides say foreign nationals need a Protected Area Permit, and advise checking with the District Magistrate, Pithoragarh, well in advance.

Where are Adi Kailash and Om Parvat seen from?

Adi Kailash is seen from Jolingkong, at about 4,400 metres. Om Parvat is seen from the Nabhidhang viewpoint, which guides call the only place in India it can be seen from.