Where any law provides that any rule, regulation, order, bye-law, notification or any other matter shall be published in the Official Gazette, then, such requirement shall be deemed to have been satisfied if such rule, regulation, order, bye-law, notification or any other matter is published in the Official Gazette or Electronic Gazette:
Provided that
where any rule, regulation, order, bye-law, notification or any other matters published in the Official Gazette or Electronic Gazette, the date of publication shall be deemed to be the date of the Gazette which was first published in any form.
Delhi Government through a circular dated 07 December 2015 issued copy of a memorandum which declared E-publishing of Government of India Gazette Notification – Discontinuing of the practice of physical printing.
It states that in compliance with Section 8 of the Information Technology Act 2000, it has been decided in consultation with Department of Legal Affairs to switch over to exclusive e-publishing of the Government of India Gazette Notification on its official website with effect from 01.10.2015 nd to do away with the physical printing of Gazette Notification. The date of publication shall be the date of e-publication on the official site by way of electronic gazette in respect of Gazette Notifications. The Gazette Notification can be accessed and downloaded/printed from the official e-Gazette website i.e. http://www.egazette.nic.in free of cost.
Read the circular here