Press in India Report 2015-16
Shri Naidu released the Press in India Report 2015-16 prepared by Registrar of Newspapers of India. on 22.12.2016
The highlights of the Press in India Report is given below:
1 | The Total Number of Registered Publications i) Newspaper category (Daily, Tri/Bi-weekly periodicities) ii) Periodicals category (other periodicities) | 1,10,851 16,136 94,715 |
2 | The number of new publications registered during 2015-16 | 5,423 |
3 | Number of publications ceased during 2015-16 | 15 |
4 | Number of publications deregistered during 2015-16 | 22 |
5 | Percentage of growth of total registered publications over the previous year | 5.13 % |
6 | The largest number of publications registered in any Indian language (Hindi) | 44,557 |
7 | The second largest number of publications registered in any language other than Hindi (English) | 14,083 |
8 | The State with the largest number of registered publications (Uttar Pradesh) | 16,984 |
9 | The State with the second largest number of registered publications (Maharashtra) | 15,260 |
10 | The number of publications that submitted Annual Statements (This figure includes 1,341 Misc. publications) | 27,445 |
11 | The total claimed circulation of publications during 2015-16 i) Hindi Publications ii) English Publications iii) Urdu Publications iv) Marathi v) Gujarati vi) Telugu vii) Odiya viii) Malayalam ix) Tamil x) Kannada xi) Punjabi xii) Assamese xiii) Kashmiri | 61,02,38,581 31,44,55,106 6,54,13,443 5,17,75,006 3,67,88,737 2,88,28,334 2,76,45,134 2,03,12,592 1,55,57,673 93,39,722 64,85,082 59,31,641 13,90,759 1,37,450 |
12 | The largest number of publications that submitted Annual Statements in any Indian language (Hindi). | 14,316 |
13 | The second largest number of publications that submitted Annual Statements in any language (English). | 2,174 |
14 | The largest circulated Daily: “Ananda Bazar Patrika”, Bengali, Kolkata. | 11,50,038 |
15 | The Second largest circulated Daily: “Hindustan Times” English, Delhi. | 9,92,239 |
16 | The largest circulated Hindi Daily: “Punjab Kesari”, Jalandhar | 7,36,399 |
17 | The largest circulated Multi-edition Daily: “Dainik Bhaskar”, Hindi. (45 editions) | 46,14,939 |
18 | The second largest circulated Multi-edition Daily: “The Times of India”, English. (33 editions) | 44,21,374 |
19 | The largest circulated Periodical: “The Sunday Times of India”, English/Weekly edition, Delhi. | 8,02,466 |
20 | The largest circulated Periodical in Malayalam: “Vanitha”, Malayalam/Fortnightly edition, Kottayam. | 6,94,291 |
21 | Total Title Applications Received Titles Approved | 20,999 12,817 |
22 | Titles Deblocked during 2015-16 (As they did not apply for registration within 2 years) | 7,754 |