Sunday, March 2, 2014

How to… update details on your PAN card

The plan is to write a few posts starting with a ‘How to…’.

My Objective here is to help people create some of these documents on their own without having to pay bribes or feeling tortured by the systems. This is one thing that I have particularly believed in – no matter what it takes, I’m not going to give away that extra money so that my work is easily done. I wish to stand in the queues, learn and know things if need be. I don’t want someone else to do that for me.

Well, why are we here? To update details on our PAN card. We want to update details like a new surname, getting the spelling mistakes corrected on our existing card, etc. We might also require another one in the case of a lost card.

Let’s do things step by step:

Step1: Go to this website and click on PAN—>Apply Online –>NSDL

Step2: It will take you to this website. Click on ‘Changes or correction in PAN details’.

Step3: Just go through the page before selecting the appropriate entity from the drop down.

Step4: Fill in all the personal details. The one marked in asterisks are compulsory.

Step5: You need to have an Identity proof document, a proof of address and a proof of date of birth (Passport/Driving License/Voter card/Ration card/Aadhar/Rent agreement/Bills from PSU’s like BSNL/MTNL are some of the documents that you can put to use).

Step6: Make payment using a DD/Cheque/Credit Card/Debit Card/Net Banking and click on submit. Note down the 15-digit acknowledgement id and take a print out of the same.

Step7: You need to have 2 passport photographs ready to be affixed on the printed document. The left hand side photograph should have a signature half on the photo and half on the document. Sign in the box below the right hand side photograph.

Final Step: Send the application, proof documents, DD/Cheque (if any) to the address mentioned in the website.

Use this link to know the status of your application. You will be intimated on your e-mail id/phone number too.

This is a fairly easy process. Wishing you all the best!

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