Type | Government Gazette |
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Publisher | Government of India Press |
Founded | 1877 |
Language | Hindi, English |
Headquarters | New Delhi |
City | New Delhi |
ISSN | 0254-6779 |
OCLC number | 1752771 |
Website | egazette |
The Gazette of India is a public journal and an authorised legal document of the Government of India.[1] It is published weekly by the Directorate of Printing Department of Publication, a subordinate office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and printed by the Government of India Press.[2]
As a public journal, The Gazette prints official notices from the government. Publishing information in the Gazette is a legal necessity by which official documents come into force and enter the public domain.
Ordinary gazettes are regularly published weekly on a particular day of the week whereas extraordinary gazettes are published every day depending upon the urgency of the matters to be published.