The office in Bangalore that publishes official name changes and legal notices for the State of Karnataka. Here is its address, location, timings, and how to reach it.
Published 5 July 2026 · Last updated 15 August 2026Applications for a Karnataka State Gazette name change are submitted offline at this office. For the state route a newspaper advertisement before the application is not mandatory. The Central Gazette route is different: there the newspaper notice is part of the file.
The Karnataka Gazette office is in Bangalore, run by the Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications, Government of Karnataka. Its address is Unit-1, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. Vidyaniketan College Post, Bengaluru Urban 560059. It publishes name changes and legal notices for the whole State of Karnataka.
| Office name | Government Central Press (Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications) |
|---|---|
| Managed by | Government of Karnataka |
| Address | Unit-1, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. Vidyaniketan College Post, Bengaluru Urban 560059 |
| Area served | Entire State of Karnataka |
| Application mode | Offline, in person at the office |
| Newspaper ad | Not mandatory for the state route. Required for the Central Gazette route. |
| Publication time | About 15 to 20 days for the state route |
| Official website | gokprinting.karnataka.gov.in |
The Gazette office in Karnataka is located in Bangalore. It is run by the Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications, Government of Karnataka, and is commonly known as the Government Central Press. This is the office that prints the Karnataka Gazette, the official record where the State Government publishes laws, notifications, and citizen name changes.
If you are searching for the gazette office in Karnataka, the working office is the same Bangalore unit for the whole State. Gazette publication for the State is centralised at this Bengaluru unit, so there is no district counter that publishes your name change separately. The department does run divisional presses in other cities, and those are listed further down this page. For the full step by step process, read our main guide on name change in Karnataka.
The Karnataka Gazette office address in Bangalore is Unit-1, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. Vidyaniketan College Post, Bengaluru Urban - 560059. The nearest landmark is R.V. Vidyaniketan College on Mysore Road, which makes the unit easy to find.
This is a government press office, so it deals with printing and publication work. It is a good idea to carry your original documents, self-attested photocopies, and a signed application when you visit. Keeping everything ready in one folder saves a repeat trip.
Tip: Phone numbers listed for government offices on third-party sites are often outdated. For current contact details and timings, check the official portal at gokprinting.karnataka.gov.in rather than random listings.
The gazette office in Bangalore sits on Mysore Road, on the western side of the city. Here is the simplest way to plan your visit.
Watch this short guide to understand the difference between the Karnataka State Gazette office and the Central Gazette, so you apply through the right route.
Many people search for a "central gazette office in Bangalore" and get confused. There are two valid routes, and knowing which one fits your need saves you from a rejection. Here is the clear difference.
| Feature | Karnataka State Gazette | Central Gazette of India |
|---|---|---|
| Published by | Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications, Government of Karnataka | Department of Publication, Government of India |
| Where it is handled | Government Central Press, Mysore Road, Bengaluru 560059 | Filed online through BharatKosh, no separate Bangalore counter |
| Best for | State-level records within Karnataka | Accepted across all of India, including passport and jobs anywhere |
| Portal | gokprinting.karnataka.gov.in | egazette.gov.in |
The Karnataka Rajyapatra is real and legal, published by the Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications in Bengaluru.
The Gazette of India (Part IV), published by the Department of Publication, Government of India, and filed via BharatKosh.
Simple answer: both routes are valid and legal, and a state gazette notification is a real gazette notification — it is not second class. There is no separate central gazette counter in Bangalore; the central route is filed online. The difference is practical rather than legal: applicants report the Gazette of India passing without discussion more consistently, particularly at offices outside Karnataka. So if a passport or an employer in another state is why you are doing this, the central route removes an argument you would otherwise have to have. If your need is state-level, the Karnataka State Gazette does the job.
The Karnataka Gazette office publishes official information so that it becomes a legal public record. For an ordinary citizen, the most common reason to deal with this office is a name change.
Once your name change appears in the Gazette, it acts as final legal proof that you can show to any Government department, bank, or institution.
Most pages tell you the department has one office. It does not. The Government Central Press on Mysore Road is the main unit, but the department also runs a Bengaluru digital printing unit and divisional presses in three other cities.
These divisional presses handle printing work for their regions. Gazette publication for the State is still processed centrally, so for a name change your file goes to the Bengaluru unit. If you live in Mysuru, Dharwad or Kalaburagi, do not assume your local press will publish your name change.
The Karnataka Gazette did not start with Karnataka. It began as the Mysore Gazette, and the record goes back to 1866.
When you publish a name change in the Karnataka Gazette, your entry joins a public record that has been running without a break since 1866. That is why offices treat the Gazette copy as final proof and not as an ordinary certificate.
People searching for the Karnataka Gazette office often actually need a gazetted officer, and end up travelling to Mysore Road for nothing. These are two completely different things.
| Question | Gazette Office | Gazetted Officer |
|---|---|---|
| What is it | A Government press that prints and publishes the Karnataka Gazette | A senior Government officer, usually Group A or Group B |
| What you get | Your name change published as a legal public record | A signature and seal attesting your photocopy or form |
| Where | Government Central Press, Mysore Road, Bengaluru | Tahsildar, Deputy Commissioner or similar office in your own taluk |
| You need it for | Name change, surname change, spelling correction | Attestation of documents, character certificate, form countersigning |
If your form says "attested by a gazetted officer", you do not need the Gazette office at all. Visit your local Tahsildar or Deputy Commissioner office instead. The Gazette office is only for publication.
We read the pages ranking for this search. These are the errors we found, corrected against Government records.
Government addresses, timings and procedures can change. Always confirm current details on gokprinting.karnataka.gov.in before you visit.
Where the office is, which route is yours, and what to carry. If you read nothing else on this page before you travel, read this.
This page is read by people about to spend half a day crossing Bengaluru. Every guide gives the address. None gives the checklist that decides whether the trip was worth it.
| Before you leave | Why it decides the trip |
|---|---|
| Call first, and confirm the counter | The department runs more than one unit. Confirm on the official portal or by phone that the gazette counter, not just the press, is open that day. This single call saves the most wasted journeys. |
| Original affidavit, notarised | Carry the original, not a copy. The spelling of your new name must match your ID letter for letter — one stray character is the commonest reason a file is handed back. |
| Self-attested photocopies of ID and address proof | Aadhaar, PAN or passport. Bring more copies than you think you need; there is no reliable photocopier moment once you are inside. |
| Passport-size photographs | Two, recent. Carry spares. |
| The filled application, signed | An unsigned form is refused at the counter, not corrected there. |
| Newspaper clippings, if you have them | Not mandatory for the state route. If you have already advertised, carry the full printed pages rather than a phone photo — they cost nothing to bring and occasionally help. |
| A way to pay | Confirm the current fee and the accepted mode when you call. Do not assume a card machine. |
| Something to write with, and patience | It is a government press, not a service centre. Morning slots are calmer than afternoons. |
The one thing to decide before you go. Your new name’s exact spelling, spacing and order — hyphen or no hyphen, initials expanded or not, which part is the surname. Once published, changing it means a second gazette, and on Aadhaar you only get two name changes in a lifetime. Sort it out at home, on paper, before you fill anything in.
Contact numbers published for this office by third-party sites vary, and we have said elsewhere on this page not to trust them. In that spirit: two independent listings give 080-28484540 and 080-28484515, with gazette.kar@gov.in as a listed email. We have not been able to verify these against the department’s own site, so treat them as a starting point and confirm on gokprinting.karnataka.gov.in.
We said above that the divisional presses do not publish your name change. That leaves a fair question unanswered for most of Karnataka, so here is the honest set of options.
Cheapest if you already visit the city, and it is one trip if your file is complete. Everything in the checklist above applies twice over here — a returned file means a second journey across the state, not across town.
Filed online through the Department of Publication and BharatKosh. No counter, no city, no travel — which is why it often suits applicants outside Bengaluru better than the state route does. It does require the newspaper notice, which the state route does not.
An authorised person or a service carries the file to the counter. We do this, so read that with the appropriate suspicion — and note that it is the only option here where you pay anybody. The other two do not need us at all.
A large share of visits to this office are not new applications at all. They are people who published years ago and have since lost the copy, or need a certified one for a court or a foreign employer.
Since December 2020, the Karnataka Gazette is published daily in electronic form under Government Notification No. EP 49 ESW 2020 dated 8 December 2020. Practically, that means recent notifications are online rather than waiting for a weekly print run — a useful thing to know before you assume a copy has to be collected in person.
The Karnataka Gazette office is located in Bangalore, at Unit-1, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. Vidyaniketan College Post, Bengaluru Urban - 560059. It is run by the Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications, Government of Karnataka.
There is no separate central gazette counter in Bangalore. The physical office in Bangalore is the Karnataka State Gazette, on Mysore Road. Central Gazette of India applications are filed online through the Department of Publication and BharatKosh, so a central office in Bangalore is not needed.
For the Karnataka State Gazette route, a newspaper advertisement before the application is not mandatory. The Central Gazette of India route is different, and there the newspaper notice forms part of the file. Check which route your office asks for before you skip the advertisement.
The Karnataka State Gazette is applied for offline, with physical documents submitted at the office. The Central Gazette of India route is filed online through BharatKosh. If you prefer not to handle either yourself, a doorstep service can prepare and submit your file.
Yes. Along with the Government Central Press in Bengaluru and the Vikasa Soudha digital printing unit, the department runs divisional presses at Kantharaj Urs Road, Saraswathipuram, Mysuru 570009, Sadhanakeri Road, Dharwad 580008, and MSK Mill Road, Kalaburagi 585102. Gazette publication itself is handled centrally in Bengaluru.
It goes back to 1866. The Mysore Gazette was started that year under the authority of the Commissioner of Mysore, with Mr. L. Ricketts as Editor, and the first issue was published on 7 April 1866.
No. The Gazette office is a Government press that publishes notifications. A gazetted officer is a senior Government officer who attests documents. If your form asks for attestation by a gazetted officer, visit your local Tahsildar or Deputy Commissioner office, not the Gazette office.
Third-party websites list conflicting hours and none of them cite a source. Treat it as normal Government working hours and confirm the current timings on the official portal, gokprinting.karnataka.gov.in, before you travel to Mysore Road.
State Gazette publication usually takes about 15 to 20 days after submission. The full process, from affidavit to receiving the Gazette copy, is typically about 25 to 45 days, depending on document accuracy and the route you choose.
Published figures disagree with one another — we have seen the government publication fee quoted anywhere from a few hundred rupees to about Rs 1,700 depending on the type of change. Rather than repeat a number we cannot source, confirm it when you call, and treat the challan raised for your own application as the figure that binds. On top of it you will pay for stamp paper and notary, and for newspaper advertisements only if your route needs them.
In practice yes, and a great many files are submitted by someone other than the applicant. Carry an authorisation in writing along with the applicant’s ID. What cannot be delegated is the accuracy of the affidavit — whoever hands it over, the spelling on it is what gets published.
Try the e-Gazette search first. A published notification is a public record and downloading it is free, so most “lost” notifications are found in a few minutes if you have the notification number, the name, or roughly the date. Travel to the office only if you need a certified copy, which is a different thing from a download and is what courts and some foreign authorities ask for.
Daily, in electronic form. Government Notification No. EP 49 ESW 2020 dated 8 December 2020 moved the Karnataka e-Gazette to daily publication. Pages that still say weekly are describing the old arrangement.
No, and this is the commonest wasted journey to Mysore Road. The office publishes and prints. Attestation is done by a gazetted officer — a Tahsildar, a Deputy Commissioner or an officer of similar rank — at their own office in your taluk. If your form says “attested by a gazetted officer”, you never needed this address.
No. The divisional presses at Mysuru, Dharwad and Kalaburagi do printing work for their regions; gazette publication for the State is handled centrally in Bengaluru. If travelling is the obstacle, the Central Gazette route is filed online and removes the problem entirely.
Expect a rough indication rather than a date. State publication commonly runs about 15 to 20 days from submission, but that is an observed range and not a service guarantee. Keep your acknowledgement, and search the e-Gazette yourself rather than waiting to be told.
A state gazette is a valid gazette notification, and it is accepted. The honest caveat is practical rather than legal: applicants report that the Gazette of India passes without discussion more consistently, particularly at offices outside Karnataka. If a passport or an out-of-state employer is the reason you are doing this at all, the central route removes an argument you would otherwise have to have.
No. It is a counter transaction with a form, an affidavit and photocopies. Services exist because people find the travel and the paperwork tedious, not because the office refuses individuals. We sell that service, so weigh this accordingly — a complete file submitted by the applicant is treated no differently.
Decide the English spelling you want every document to carry, and make the affidavit say exactly that. Transliteration between Kannada and English is not standardised, so the point is not which version is “correct” but that one version is chosen and then used everywhere without variation.
The related searches people run around this one, each answered here rather than pointed elsewhere.
Affidavit, then application at the Government Central Press on Mysore Road for the state route, or online through BharatKosh for the Central Gazette. The state route needs no newspaper advertisement; the central route does.
There is not one. The Central Gazette is published by the Department of Publication in Delhi and filed online. Any page giving you a Bengaluru address for it is describing the state office by mistake.
The official site of the Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications — the department that runs this office. Use it to confirm timings, contacts and any change of procedure before you travel.
Where published notifications are searched and downloaded. Free. Keep your notification number, the Part and the date, because those are what let anyone find your entry again.
A different thing entirely from this office. Gazetted officers attest documents; the gazette office publishes them. For attestation, go to your taluk Tahsildar or the Deputy Commissioner’s office.
The same office. Unit-1, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. Vidyaniketan College Post, Bengaluru Urban 560059, near R.V. Vidyaniketan College.
Non-judicial stamp paper, stating your old name, new name, address and reason, with a declaration that you will be known by the new name, notarised. The spelling must match your ID letter for letter.
Free from the e-Gazette. A charge to “retrieve” your own published notification is not a government fee.
The payment gateway for the Central Gazette route. Part of filing online with the Department of Publication, and the reason that route needs no counter visit anywhere.
Third-party listings contradict each other and none cite a source. Treat it as ordinary government working hours and ring ahead — this is the one detail on this page we will not state as fact.
Real offices doing regional printing, at Kantharaj Urs Road Saraswathipuram Mysuru 570009, Sadhanakeri Road Dharwad 580008, and MSK Mill Road Kalaburagi 585102. None of them publishes your name change.
Affidavit, the gazette application, then updating Aadhaar, PAN, bank and passport in that order. Our main guide walks the whole thing.
We prepare your affidavit, arrange the newspaper ad, and file your Gazette name change for you. Just share your details and relax. See the full process, fees and documents on our name change in Karnataka page.