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
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