Panchayat Voter List Name Correction in Uttarakhand: Gram Panchayat and Municipal Rolls

Three of the six rows are gaps, and we would rather show them than fill them with guesses. Your block or municipal office knows the present practice.

The third matters most to anyone who means to stand for election. Settle it long before nominations.

Step 1: Find out which local body you live under

A gram panchayat, a nagar panchayat, a municipal council or a municipal corporation. Each has its own roll.

Step 2: Search for your name on the State Election Commission's site

It has a search for the panchayat roll and another for the urban local body roll.

Step 3: Read the entry: name, relation, age, house and ward

In the script the roll uses. Note the ward and the serial number.

Step 4: Compare it with your Aadhaar and your voter card

The voter card is from the other roll, but it is good proof of how your name stands.

Step 5: Ask your local office how a correction or inclusion is made

The block or panchayat office in a village. The municipal office in a town. The tehsil can direct you.

Step 6: Apply in the form and at the time that office gives

Local rolls are usually revised before an election, with dates for claims and objections.

Step 7: Give an identity paper in the name you want entered

And proof that you live in that ward or village.

Step 8: Search again after the roll is published

And keep your acknowledgment until you have seen the entry.

• We could not find the State Election Commission's form or instructions for correcting an entry.
• In a village, begin with the gram panchayat's secretary or the block development office.
• In a town, begin with the municipal office.
• The tehsil or the sub-divisional magistrate's office can say who is the officer for your roll.
• Ask three things: which form, which papers, and what dates are open.
• Ask in writing where a spoken answer is vague, and keep the receipt.

Local rolls are generally revised before an election, and requests outside those dates may wait. Read what to do when an application is pending.

• Many families keep a house in the village and live in Dehradun, Haldwani or Rishikesh.
• They may be on the village's panchayat list from long ago, and on a municipal list where they live.
• A person belongs on the local roll of the place he or she ordinarily lives.
• Decide which that is. Ask for deletion at the other.
• The Assembly roll is a third thing again. After the 2026 revision, check where that entry now sits.
• All three should point to one home.

Read the voter list after the Special Intensive Revision.

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

A slip in a local roll is corrected by the office that keeps it.

Step 2: Understand what a local roll follows

Your identity papers. A Gazette changes those first.

Step 3: Fix the exact new name

The spelling that will go on Aadhaar and every roll.

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 Aadhaar and both rolls

Send it to the Controller of Publications, Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054.

See gazette name change in Uttarakhand.

A typical case we handle: a man in a village of Pauri meant to stand for a seat in his gram panchayat. His Aadhaar and voter card read "Harendra Singh Negi". The panchayat list had "Harender Singh". A friend told him to get a Gazette. He needed none. Nothing about his name had changed. He took his Aadhaar and voter card to the block office, asked how the entry is corrected, and applied in the dates it gave. This is an illustrative example of the type of case we handle, not a named client review.

When you do not need us

For anything in a local roll. The offices under the State Election Commission settle it. We are useful only where a voter's own name has changed by choice and a Gazette notification is needed.

Is the panchayat voter list different from the Assembly voter list?

Yes. It is kept by the State Election Commission.

How do I check my name in the panchayat voter list?

On the State Election Commission's site.

Does a voter card put me on the panchayat list?

No. Search the local roll.

How do I correct my name in the panchayat voter list?

Through your block or municipal office. Ask there.

Is a gazette needed for a panchayat voter list name correction?

No.

Did the 2026 revision cover the panchayat list?

No. It covered the other roll.

Can a voter be on two panchayat or municipal rolls?

No. The Uttarakhand High Court noted in July 2025 that sections 9(6) and 9(7) of the Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016 prohibit a voter from being registered in more than one territorial constituency or on more than one electoral roll.

What did the High Court do about candidates on two rolls?

On 11 July 2025 it stayed the State Election Commission's clarification that a nomination would not be rejected only because the candidate's name was on more than one roll, saying it appeared to be against the statutory bar.

What did the Supreme Court decide?

On 26 September 2025 the Supreme Court dismissed the State Election Commission's appeal against the High Court's stay and imposed costs of Rs 2 lakh on it, saying an administrative clarification cannot override the statute.

When were Uttarakhand's last panchayat elections?

The three-tier panchayat polls in 12 districts were held in two phases on 24 and 28 July 2025, with counting on 31 July. The roll used was the local roll, not the Assembly roll.

Which law covers the panchayat roll in Uttarakhand?

The Uttarakhand Panchayati Raj Act, 2016, which the High Court cited on duplicate entries. Municipal rolls come under the state's municipal law. Ask your office for the rules that apply to your roll.

Is the State Election Commission independent?

Yes, within the law. Article 243K of the Constitution sets up State Election Commissions for panchayat polls, and the Supreme Court's 2025 order shows that their clarifications still have to follow the statute.