Nanda Gaura Yojana Name Mismatch in Uttarakhand

As guides describe it. Check the scheme's portal for the current conditions.

Seventeen or eighteen years lie between the two stages. The names a family gave at the first are not always the names it holds at the second.

• The girl's name is the one most often wrong, because her birth certificate and the family register were written when she was a baby, sometimes under a pet name.
• The mother's name is the next. A woman who is "Devi" on one paper and carries a surname on another appears as two mothers.
• A date of birth that differs between the birth certificate and the class 10 certificate is as serious as a name.

Step 1: Start in class 11, not after the class 12 result

Corrections take weeks. The window does not wait.

Step 2: Lay every paper on a table

Write the girl's, the mother's and the father's name from each, with the girl's date of birth.

Step 3: Take the class 10 certificate as the girl's measure

And each parent's Aadhaar as theirs.

Step 4: Correct her Aadhaar first

Then open or correct her own bank account on it, and link the two.

Step 5: Correct the birth certificate, the ration card and the family register

Each at its own office. See that she is listed on the ration card.

Step 6: Apply for fresh residence and income certificates

In the names exactly as on Aadhaar. Read them the day they come.

Step 7: Get the school's and the other certificates the list asks for

In the same spelling.

Step 8: Apply on the portal early in the window

Type each name from the papers, and keep the application number.

• Aadhaar made in childhood. A spelling, a missing surname or a wrong date of birth. Correct it to the class 10 certificate.
• The ration card. Guides say the girl's name on it is mandatory. A card made before she was born, or one that lists her by a pet name, has to be updated.
• The family register. Often years out of date. Take a fresh extract and read her line.
• Her own bank account. Many girls have none, or one opened at school in a short form. Open it in the class 10 name.
• The parents' names on her marksheets. They were typed by the school. Where they differ from the parents' Aadhaar, the difference is explained by the parents' papers, or corrected through the school and the board.
• The unmarried certificate or affidavit, and the principal's certificate, should carry her name exactly as on the marksheet.

Read ration card, family register, income certificate and residence certificate.

Several of these depend on one another. Aadhaar comes before the bank, and the tehsil's certificates come after Aadhaar. A family that starts after the class 12 result is doing all of it inside one window. A family that starts in class 11 is not.

Step 1: Confirm that it is a change of name, and not a spelling

A spelling is corrected on the class 10 certificate.

Step 2: Count the weeks to the window

A Gazette commonly takes 3 to 7 weeks.

Step 3: Fix the exact new name, and copy the name as on the certificates

Letter by letter.

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 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 and Rs 1,700 for a minor. It is not refunded.

Step 8: Send the file, then update Aadhaar and the bank

Send it to the Controller of Publications, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054. Upload the notification with the certificates it links.

For a family within this scheme's income limit, that is a real cost. Be sure it is a change of name and not a spelling. See gazette name change in Uttarakhand.

A typical case we handle: a girl in a village of Chamoli passed class 12 as "Anjali Rawat". Her Aadhaar, made at seven, read "Anju", the ration card "Anjli", and she had no bank account of her own. Her father was told at a cafe that a Gazette would join the names. It was not needed. She corrected Aadhaar on her class 10 certificate, opened an account on it, had the ration card updated and took fresh certificates from the tehsil. She applied in the last fortnight of the window, which was too close. This is an illustrative example of the type of case we handle, not a named client review.

When you do not need us

For this scheme, almost always. Each paper is corrected at its own office, on the class 10 certificate and Aadhaar. We are useful only where a girl has in fact changed her name since class 10 and a Gazette notification is needed to link her certificates.

Why was my Nanda Gaura application rejected?

Often a name or date of birth differs between the papers uploaded.

Which name should be used in the Nanda Gaura form?

The girl's name as on her class 10 certificate.

My Aadhaar name differs from my marksheet. Which do I correct?

Aadhaar, to match the class 10 certificate.

Is the girl's name needed on the ration card?

Guides say it is mandatory for the class 12 stage.

Whose bank account is used for the class 12 grant?

The girl's own, linked with Aadhaar.

Is a gazette needed for a Nanda Gaura name mismatch?

No. A spelling is corrected at the office concerned.

How much money is given under Nanda Gaura Yojana?

Rs 11,000 at the time of a daughter's birth, and Rs 51,000 when she passes class 12, as the scheme's listing describes it.

Which class 12 boards are accepted for Nanda Gaura?

The Uttarakhand Board, the secondary boards of other states, CBSE, ICSE or the National Institute of Open Schooling. The girl must also be unmarried.

What is the time limit for the birth instalment?

The application must be submitted within six months of the girl's birth.

Can Nanda Gaura be applied for offline?

No. Guides say the application is made online only, so each name is typed from the papers into the portal.

How many girls in a family can get Nanda Gaura?

The scheme gives assistance for up to two girls in a family.

Is there an exemption for girls in orphanages?

Yes. Girls living in Nari Niketan, Balika Niketan, orphanages or other state-aided homes are exempted from the birth, residence and income certificates and the parents' names at the class 12 stage.