Publishing information in the Gazette is a legal necessity by which official documents come into force and enter the public domain.
The Gazette employs more than 270 people under the supervision of the Ministry of Urban Development, headquartered in Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi.
It undertakes storage, sale and distribution of all saleable publications brought out by various ministries and departments.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs began publishing an electronic version of The Gazette in 2008.
[3] "Gazetted officers" are Indian government servants whose appointments have been notified in The Gazette of India.