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 |