About Certificate Guide India and disclaimer

Certificate Guide India is a small, free guide to Indian government certificates such as income, domicile and caste certificates. For each one it lists the documents, the fee and the official time limit, and it explains the appeal you can file if the certificate is late or wrongly rejected.

How pages are written

• Every document list, fee, time limit and officer is read from an official state portal, checklist PDF, Act or Rules and linked on the page with the date we checked it.
• If the state does not publish something, the page says "Not published by the state" or leaves it out. If two official pages disagree, the page shows both. We do not fill gaps from forums, news articles or agents' websites.
• Appeal templates follow the fields of the official appeal forms and are free to copy. They contain only blanks for you to fill in.
• We do not publish anyone's personal story, and we do not collect your data. This site has no forms that send data and no ads. It uses GoatCounter, a privacy-friendly counter that sets no cookies, only to count page visits.

The full method is on how we check facts. What the host records is on the privacy page.

Disclaimer

This page is general information to help you apply for a government certificate and follow up if it is late. It is not legal advice, and this site is not affiliated with any government department, Aaple Sarkar or any service centre. Fees, documents and time limits change, so always confirm on the official portal before you act. Each guide links its official sources with the date we checked them.

This is not a government website. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an agent of the Government of Maharashtra, Aaple Sarkar, MahaOnline or any other government body or service centre. We cannot apply for a certificate for you, and we never ask for documents, passwords, OTPs, Aadhaar numbers or money.

Sister site

Where to Complain covers escalation ladders for complaints against insurers, banks and other companies in India, built the same way.

Found something out of date?

Please open an issue at https://github.com/rudracodeshere/certificate-guide-india/issues. Issues are public, so do not post personal details, application numbers or documents. Always check the official source linked on the page first.

Affiliate links

There are none. If any ever appear, they will be marked clearly on the page where they appear.