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CHAPTER – 7 CIRCULATION OF WEEKLIES AND OTHER PERIODICALS

7.1.1. The Indian Press, especially comprising Weeklies, Monthlies and other Periodicals, has shown significant growth in the recent years, which has been reflected elaborately in different statistical tables from 7.1 to 7.10 in this Chapter. The Periodicals other than Dailies and Tri/Bi Weeklies formed an important part of the circulation in Print Media. It highlights and covers diverse topics such as finance, religion and philosophy, medicine, current affairs, fiction, art and science, sports, women power and children in different languages. For the current financial year 2017-18, a total number of 21,187 Annual Statements were received from the publishers online in respect of other Periodicals raising their claimed circulation figure to 18,73,76,072 copies per publishing day (Table 7.2). As a growth rate of 3.37% was recorded in e-filing of Annual Statements by Weeklies and other Periodicals, a decrease of 11.92% was also recorded in their claimed circulation this year compared to the previous year.

7.1.2. Among the Periodicals, Weeklies dominated the scene with a total number of 10,834 publications out of 21,187 publications which filed online Annual Statements for 2017-18 and in circulation also remained top by claiming 10,60,27,875 out of 18,73,76,072 copies per publishing day, followed by Monthlies 6,138 with circulation of 4,37,73,013 copies, Fortnightlies 2,836 with circulation of 2,23,76,002 copies, Quarterlies 522 with circulation of 20,23,766 copies and Annuals 94 with circulation of 14,70,907 copies. The remaining 763 publications were of other periodicities with a claimed circulation of 1,17,04,509 copies per publishing day. (Table 7.2)

LANGUAGE WISE

7.2.1. While going through Annual Statements filed for the year 2017-18, it has been observed that Periodicals were brought out in all principal languages of the country except Bodo. Language wise analysis states that Periodicals have maintained a lead with 11,489 publications followed by Marathi (1,703), English (1,578), Gujarati (1,509), Bilingual (1,236), Telugu (983), (594), (465), Bengali (433), Tamil (359), Odia (291), and (191). (Table 7.3)

7.2.2. In circulation also, Hindi Periodicals maintain their lead with a total circulation of 9,21,43,130 copies per publishing day followed by English (2,37,27,659), Gujarati (1,34,81,862), Marathi (1,03,34,597), Telugu (94,37,656), Malayalam (62,58,106) and Urdu (53,52,682). (Table 7.3)

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STATE/UT-WISE

7.3.1. Madhya Pradesh leads with 3,726 Periodicals; Uttar Pradesh came second with 3,667 followed by 2,730, Uttarakhand 1,676, Delhi 1,596, Gujarat 1,586 and Rajasthan 1,333. (Table 7.4)

7.3.2. Uttar Pradesh remained on top position in terms of circulation also with a claim of 3,59,05,982 copies per publishing day followed by Madhya Pradesh with 2,19,11,318 copies, Maharashtra 2,04,97,136 copies, Delhi 1,98,98,222, Gujarat 1,49,26,366 copies and Uttarakhand 1,22,38,680 copies per publishing day. (Table 7.4)

CONTENTS

7.4.1. The Periodicals have been classified into 20 categories according to their contents as per total number of Annual Statements received for the year 2017-18.

7.4.2. The Periodicals which cover major topics fall under the category of NCA (News and Current Affairs 19,112), followed by UNC (Unclassified 534), SOW (Social Welfare 266), EDU (Education 233), LAC (Literature & Culture 194), MAH (Medicine and Health 191) and AAH (Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 100) etc. (Table 7.5)

7.4.3. Weeklies and Monthlies maintained the leading trend in terms of coverage of matters pertaining to News and Current Affairs with 10,834 and 6,138 publications in numbers respectively. (Table 7.5)

7.4.4. Periodicals were published in all major Indian languages except Bodo covering topics on news and current affairs.

7.4.5. Hindi Periodicals continued to dominate the scene in the category of News and Current Affairs with 11,489 publications followed by Marathi & English with 1,703 & 1,578 publications respectively. They continued to remain on top leaving aside rest of other categories such as topic on social welfare, religion and philosophy, literary and culture, etc. (Table 7.6)

7.4.6. Circulation-wise also the Periodicals covering News and Current Affairs as the main topic remained on top with 16,41,35,938 copies followed by UNC (Unclassified 74,92,101) EDU (Education 23,70,145), LAC (Literature & Culture 20,30,649) and SOW (Social Welfare 19,64,237). (Table 7.7)

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GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

7.5.1. There were 57 Government Publications, which filed Annual Statements for the year 2017-18, out of which 31 belonged to the Central and 26 to the State Governments (Table 7.8). However, the actual number of publications brought out by the Central as well as State governments and their various Departments are much higher.

7.5.2. Out of the 57 Government Publications, Monthlies dominated the scene having 31 in number followed by Weeklies, Quarterlies, and Fortnightlies and Daily having 10, 5, 3 and 3 publications respectively. Remaining 4 were of other periodicities. (Table 7.8)

7.5.3. Language-wise, the largest number of government publications were brought out in English (14) followed by Hindi (13), Bilingual (8), Urdu (4), and 3 each in Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi. (Table 7.9)

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

7.6.1. Out of 31 Central Government Publications; 11 were in English, 09 in Hindi, 03 in Urdu and 1 each in Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Urdu and Punjabi. (Table 7.9)

7.6.2. Out of 31 Central Government Publications; 19 were published from Delhi followed by 3 from Karnataka, 2 from Maharashtra and 1 each from Assam, Telangana, Gujarat, , M.P., West Bengal and Uttarakhand. (Table 7.10)

STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

7.7.1. There were 26 State Government Publications which filed their Annual Statements in 2017-18. Out of this, 7 were in Bilingual, 4 were in Hindi, 3 were in English, 2 each were in Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, Multilingual and Telugu, 1 each were in Kannada and Urdu. (Table 7.9)

7.7.2. State-wise study shows that, 3 each were from Maharashtra, Kerala, Telangana, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, 2 each were from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, A.P., and West Bengal, 1 each from Assam, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. (Table 7.10)

LARGEST CIRCULATED GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

Employment News, English/Weekly published from Delhi by the Publications Division, M/o &B, Government of India, had a circulation of 1,37,669 copies per publishing day.

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LIST OF PERIODICALS CLAIMING MORE THAN ONE LAKH CIRCULATION

Title Language Periodicity Place of Publication Circulation SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly 818768 THE SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly Delhi 808829 SUNDAY TIMES English Weekly Delhi 641260 SUNDAY Hindi Weekly Mumbai 638778 SUNDAY English Weekly Mumbai 637369 Malayalam Fortnightly Kottayam 584261 Daily(monday to MUMBAI MIRROR English saturday) Mumbai 523329 SWATI Telugu Weekly Krishna/ Vijaywada 509916 UDAAN Hindi Weekly Gautam Buddha Nagar 467735 THE SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly 421875 TIMES PROPERTY English Weekly Bangalore(north) 407046 EDUCATION TIMES English Weekly Bangalore 406275 THOZHIL VARTHA Malayalam Weekly 401653 HINDUSTAN Hindi Daily Patna 378836 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Patna 370088 KARMASANGSTHAAN Bengali Weekly Kolkata 352861 GADCHIROLI PATRIKA Marathi Weekly Gadchiroli 339083 MALAYALA Malayalam Weekly Kottayam 338032 GRAHLAXMI Hindi Monthly Delhi 332583 ANNADATA Telugu Monthly Hyderabad 322033 MERI SAHELI Hindi Monthly Mumbai 307432 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Delhi 293120 RAVIVAR Marathi Weekly Mumbai 292874 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Lucknow 281348 THE CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT English Monthly Delhi 280572 SUNDAY English Weekly Mumbai 276360 HAMARA BAL PRABHAT Hindi Weekly Ranchi 273494 SANDESH ANAND Marathi Daily Evening 268800 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly Chennai 264078 English Weekly Chennai 260485 CIRCULATION OF WEEKLIES AND OTHER PERIODICALS 333

THE SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly Kolkata 260389 HEALTHY LIFE Hindi Weekly Ranchi 260008 PRATIVEER Marathi Daily Evening 257500 NIRBHAY SANCHAR Marathi Daily Evening Hingoli 256710 SARAS SALIL Hindi Fortnightly Delhi 249940 DEEPOTSAV Marathi Annual Nagpur 249700 RAVIVAR Marathi Weekly Mumbai 249041 SUNDAY SHALOM Malayalam Weekly Kozhikode 239460 TNAI BULLETIN Bilingual Monthly Delhi 229313 THE HINDU English Weekly Chennai 219521 KENDRIYA MANAVADHIKAR Hindi Daily Evening Nagpur 216000 HINDUSTAN Hindi Daily Kanpur 215689 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Kanpur 214295 ZEE MARATHI DISHA Marathi Weekly Mumbai 210718 English Daily Mumbai 209474 MANORAMA YEAR BOOK English Annual Kottayam 208707 THE SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly 205429 THE SPEAKING TREE English Weekly Mumbai 204067 READER'S DIGEST English Monthly Mumbai 202369 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Muzaffarpur 195682 GRIHALAKSHMI Malayalam Fortnightly Kozhikode 191271 MATHRUBHUMI AROGYA MASIKA Malayalam Monthly Kozhikode 189681 HINDUSTAN Hindi Daily Bhagalpur 186823 ASCENT English Weekly Ahmedabad 182556 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Bhagalpur 181919 NAI SADI KI PRASTUTI Hindi Weekly Delhi 181777 THE SUNDAY STATESMAN English Weekly Kolkata 181043 EDUCATION TIMES English Weekly Ahmedabad 180193 RAVIVAR MAHARASHTRA TIMES Marathi Weekly Mumbai 177489 THE SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly Ahmedabad 176560 VIVEKA SAMPADA Kannada Four monthly Udupi 175000 HINDUSTAN Hindi Daily Varanasi 173183 SACHI SHIKSHA Hindi Monthly Sirsa 171955 MANGAYAR MALAR Tamil Fortnightly Chennai 170750 THE WEEK English Weekly Ernakulam 170682 334 The Press in India 2017-18

RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Varanasi 170513 STANDARD HERALD Gujarati Daily evening Ahmedabad 169875 ANANDA VIKATAN Tamil Weekly Chennai 167953 HINDUSTAN Hindi Daily Meerut 167270 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Meerut 166745 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly Hyderabad 164380 THOZHIL VEEDHI Malayalam Weekly Kottayam 161005 MATRUVANI Malayalam Monthly Kollam 159248 TELEKIDS English Weekly Calcutta 156003 KUMUDAM Tamil Weekly Chennai 153730 JADEED AKHBAR SADAQAT Urdu Weekly Mumbai 151990 PATHEYA KAN Hindi Fortnightly Jaipur 151712 HINDUSTAN Hindi Daily Agra 150745 MID-DAY English Daily Mumbai 150505 TAMILAGA ARASIYAL Tamil Twice a week Chennai 150000 SYNOD Mizo Monthly Aizawl 150000 SAPTAHIK BARTMAN Bengali Weekly Kolkata 147723 BALARAMA Malayalam Weekly Kottayam 146529 AMMA EXPRESS Tamil Weekly Coimbatore 146000 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Agra 143378 MANORAMA TELL ME WHY English Monthly Kottayam 142173 English Fortnightly Mumbai 142053 KOTHRUD PLUS Marathi Fortnightly Pune 142000 KOTHRUD MITRA Marathi Fortnightly Pune 141916 PRABODHANAM Malayalam Weekly Kozhikode 139125 JUNIOR VIKATAN Tamil Twice a week Chennai 138286 EMPLOYMENT NEWS English Weekly Delhi 137669 SUNDAY NAVBHARAT TIMES Hindi Weekly Mumbai 135092 AROGYAM Malayalam Monthly Kottayam 134528 DAYANAND ANGLO VEDIC STUDENTS' WORLD Bilingual Bi-monthly Delhi 130000 VANITHA Hindi Monthly Kottayam 127500 PRAJA NEWS Telugu Monthly Anantapur 127200 OTTRAN KURAL Tamil Weekly Chennai 125666 RAVIVASRIYA HINDUSTAN Hindi Weekly Ranchi 124242 Daily(monday to HINDUSTAN Hindi saturday) Ranchi 124095 CIRCULATION OF WEEKLIES AND OTHER PERIODICALS 335

SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English Weekly Lucknow 123507 NAKKHEERAN Tamil Thrice a week Chennai 122469 Chennai(printed at THE HINDU English Weekly Hyderabad) 121706 NYAY KA PRAHARI Hindi Weekly Allahabad 121500 THIRAI VELICHAM Tamil Weekly Chennai 121333 KALKI Tamil Weekly Chennai 120833 COMMUNITY SAMVADA English Monthly Delhi 120000 BALA BHARATAM Telugu Monthly Rangareddi 119910 KALIKKUDUKKA Malayalam Weekly Kottayam 119022 PRADESH TODAY Hindi Monthly Bhopal 118751 BANKING SERVICES CHRONICLE English Monthly Delhi 117408 ANTARASHTRIYA CHRONOLOGY Hindi Monthly Bharatpur 116166 ON SUNDAY English Weekly Bangalore(north) 116110 AROGYA DHAM Hindi Quarterly Muzaffarnagar 115025 CHARAIVETI Hindi Weekly Bhopal 114362 SCHOOL EDITION English Weekly Nagpur 114342 Chennai published at THE HINDU English Weekly Gautam Budh Nagar 114277 AADHAVAN PAARVAI Tamil Weekly Chennai 112666 ARASIAL KAATRU Tamil Weekly Chennai 112666 KERALA KARSHAKAN Malayalam Monthly Thiruvananthapuram 112560 BANGALORE MIRROR ON SATURDAY English Weekly Bangalore(North) 112005 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS English Weekly Delhi 110393 SNEHA SENA Malayalam Monthly Kanjirafally 110299 FUND MANAGER English Annual Delhi 109410 MANGALAM Malayalam Weekly Kottayam 108534 SHALOM TIMES Malayalam Monthly Kozhikode 107125 KRISHAK DOOT Hindi Weekly Bhopal 106235 KARSHAKASREE Malayalam Monthly Kottayam 105950 SACHITRA NIMAD DARPAN Hindi Daily evening Khandwa 104708 KUMUDAM SNEHIDHI Tamil Fortnightly Chennai 103352 BUSINESS STANDARD BANKING ANNUAL English Annual Delhi 101030 UTTAR BANGER GRAMUNNAYAN Bengali Fortnightly Cooch Behar 100900 ROTARY NEWS English Monthly Chennai 100837 KHETI DUNIYAN Punjabi Weekly Patiala 100167

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TABLE 7.1 YEAR WISE CIRCULATION OF PERIODICALS (2006-07 to 2017-18)

YEAR CIRCULATION 2006-07 9,25,02,574 2007-08 10,06,61,944 2008-09 12,15,73,074 2009-10 14,58,68,374 2010-11 15,25,70,237 2011-12 17,59,59,447 2012-13 17,95,12,283 2013-14 18,54,03,183 2014-15 21,32,45,547 2015-16 23,86,25,840 2016-17 21,27,28,237 2017-18 18,73,76,072

TABLE 7.2 NUMBER & CIRCULATION OF PERIODICALS DURING 2017-18 (Periodicity-wise)

Periodicity Number Circulation Weekly 10834 106027875 Fortnightly 2836 22376002 Monthly 6138 43773013 Quarterly 522 2023766 Annual 94 1470907 Others 763 11704509 Total 21187 187376072

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TABLE 7.3 NUMBER & CIRCULATION OF PERIODICALS DURING 2017-18 (Language-wise)

Languages Number Circulation

Assamese 31 406512 Bengali 433 3543024 Bilingual 1236 9061474 Dogri 1 1000 English 1578 23727659 Gujarati 1509 13481862 Hindi 11489 92143130 Kannada 465 1875771 Kashmiri 1 5450 Konkani 3 10095 Maithili 1 300 Malayalam 191 6258106 Manipuri 2 38255 Marathi 1703 10334597 Multilingual 155 1023783 Nepali 13 16291 Odia 291 4711547 Others 35 514786 Punjabi 91 1164403 14 65104 Santhali 1 1800 Sindhi 8 114485 Tamil 359 4086300 Telugu 983 9437656 Urdu 594 5352682 Total 21187 187376072

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TABLE 7.4 NUMBER & CIRCULATION OF PERIODICALS DURING 2017-18 (State/Union Territory-wise)

State/Union Territory Number Total Circulation

Andaman & Nicobar Islands 9 20566 Andhra Pradesh 860 7658295 Arunachal Pradesh 1 16000 Assam 55 780520 Bihar 82 2574581 Chandigarh 43 617200 Chhattisgarh 342 2067718 Daman & Diu 1 18000 Delhi 1596 19898222 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 12 176981 Goa 12 88181 Gujarat 1586 14926366 Haryana 211 1735959 Himachal Pradesh 75 352053 Jharkhand 73 1764884 Jammu & Kashmir 154 1253208 Karnataka 586 4008480 Kerala 263 7578663 Maharashtra 2730 20497136 Meghalaya 2 4700 Mizoram 11 311675 Madhya Pradesh 3726 21911318 Odisha 369 5850593 Puducherry 33 73151 Punjab 162 1466993 Rajasthan 1333 6976680 Sikkim 12 15291 Telangana 418 4151020 Tamil Nadu 536 7337814 Tripura 31 129423 Uttar Pradesh 3667 35905982 Uttrakhand 1676 12238680 West Bengal 520 4969739 Total 21187 187376072

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TABLE 7.5 NUMBER OF PERIODICALS ACCORDING TO CONTENT (PERIODICITY- WISE) During 2017-18

Category Weekly Fortnightly Monthly Quarterly Annual Others Total AAH 4 6 61 14 1 14 100 ART 0 0 3 3 0 3 9 CAI 4 9 49 4 1 9 76 CHI 8 11 55 3 0 1 78 EAT 2 0 24 7 0 7 40 EDU 17 11 123 26 9 47 233 FAE 7 4 22 3 3 6 45 FIL 12 5 33 0 0 0 50 IBC 3 4 16 2 1 2 28 LAB 1 3 9 2 0 0 15 LAC 8 12 120 28 9 17 194 LAP 7 9 29 5 2 2 54 MAH 4 15 106 32 3 31 191 NCA 10679 2595 4931 304 54 549 19112 SCI 1 2 15 14 0 26 58 SOW 17 14 191 29 1 14 266 SPO 2 0 11 2 1 0 16 TAC 0 4 12 1 0 0 17 UNC 54 125 274 41 9 31 534 WOM 4 7 54 2 0 4 71 Total 10834 2836 6138 522 94 763 21187

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TABLE 7.6 NUMBER OF PERIDICALS ACCORDING TO CONTENT (LANGUAGE- WISE) During 2017-18

Language AAH ART CAI CHI EAT EDU FAE FIL IBC LAB LAC Assamese 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Bengali 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 13 Bilingual 8 1 9 8 0 33 4 4 2 1 11 Dogri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 English 15 5 47 21 37 101 32 8 15 3 19 Gujarati 3 0 1 3 0 10 1 0 0 1 10 Hindi 44 3 6 17 2 35 6 11 6 6 71 Kannada 1 0 1 2 0 4 0 1 1 0 10 Kashmiri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Konkani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Maithili 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Malayalam 5 0 2 11 0 18 1 3 0 0 5 Manipuri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Marathi 3 0 5 2 0 4 0 2 1 0 14 Multilingual 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 0 2 2 5 Nepali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Odia 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 7 Others 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 Punjabi 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Sanskrit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Santhali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sindhi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tamil 8 0 5 4 1 6 1 6 0 1 10 Telugu 11 0 0 3 0 8 0 12 0 0 4 Urdu 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 9 Total 100 9 76 78 40 233 45 50 28 15 194

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TABLE 7.6 (Continued) NUMBER OF PERIDICALS ACCORDING TO CONTENT (LANGUAGE- WISE) During 2017-18

Language LAP MAH NCA SCI SOW SPO TAC UNC WOM Total Assamese 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 Bengali 0 3 351 1 3 0 1 53 3 433 Bilingual 11 34 1039 2 38 3 3 23 2 1236 Dogri 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 English 26 81 954 46 25 3 10 122 8 1578 Gujarati 3 3 1413 1 18 0 0 41 1 1509 Hindi 10 45 10923 4 106 9 2 151 32 11489 Kannada 0 1 426 0 4 0 0 11 3 465 Kashmiri 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Konkani 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 Maithili 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Malayalam 0 5 107 2 8 1 0 21 2 191 Manipuri 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Marathi 0 5 1621 0 17 0 0 28 1 1703 Multilingual 1 2 124 0 5 0 0 6 0 155 Nepali 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Odia 0 2 261 0 0 0 0 14 3 291 Others 0 0 24 0 2 0 0 6 0 35 Punjabi 0 0 76 0 2 0 0 9 1 91 Sanskrit 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 Santhali 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Sindhi 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Tamil 3 5 256 2 19 0 1 24 7 359 Telugu 0 5 905 0 15 0 0 13 7 983 Urdu 0 0 565 0 4 0 0 10 1 594 Total 54 191 19112 58 266 16 17 534 71 21187

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TABLE 7.7 NUMBER OF PERIDICALS ACCORDING TO CONTENTS (CIRCULATION- WISE) During 2017-18 Annual Others Fortnightly Monthly Quarterly Weekly Total Category No. Circulation No. Circulation No. Circulation No. Circulation No. Circulation No. Circulation No. Circulation

AAH 1 28500 14 25691 6 188361 61 762274 14 61342 4 111335 100 1177503 ART 0 0 3 17250 0 0 3 6995 3 4750 0 0 9 28995 CAI 1 1100 9 27620 9 73404 49 251718 4 5575 4 14957 76 374374 CHI 0 0 1 8283 11 201046 55 807470 3 19850 8 431749 78 1468398 EAT 0 0 7 14798 0 0 24 113678 7 49123 2 2500 40 180099 EDU 9 127696 47 187267 11 44845 123 1253256 26 65111 17 691970 233 2370145 FAE 3 208275 6 3275 4 83194 22 398595 3 790 7 83869 45 777998 FIL 0 0 0 0 5 108743 33 345125 0 0 12 186737 50 640605 IBC 1 101030 2 1433 4 11450 16 209472 2 2500 3 7800 28 333685 LAB 0 0 0 0 3 7650 9 123614 2 1950 1 42925 15 176139 LAC 9 28388 17 22582 12 502462 120 1242661 28 103100 8 131456 194 2030649 LAP 2 275 2 10500 9 59554 29 84584 5 3985 7 23084 54 181982 MAH 3 29763 31 637969 15 139198 106 954823 32 217423 4 21302 191 2000478 NCA 54 578677 549 10396225 2595 18298753 4931 30484371 304 1249536 10679 103128376 19112 164135938 SCI 0 0 26 61630 2 39320 15 191506 14 23045 1 9609 58 325110 SOW 1 1000 14 166408 14 57410 191 1450491 29 51882 17 237046 266 1964237 SPO 1 100 0 0 0 0 11 176740 2 1900 2 28552 16 207292 TAC 0 0 0 0 4 38712 12 118912 1 1100 0 0 17 158724 UNC 9 366103 31 107045 125 2118014 274 3910160 41 144737 54 846042 534 7492101 WOM 0 0 4 16533 7 403886 54 886568 2 16067 4 28566 71 1351620 Total 94 1470907 763 11704509 2836 22376002 6138 43773013 522 2023766 10834 106027875 21187 187376072

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TABLE 7.8 NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 2017-18 (Periodicity-wise)

Periodicity Central State Total Daily 1 2 3 Weekly 6 4 10 Fortnightly 1 2 3 Monthly 17 14 31 Quarterly 4 1 5 Annual 1 0 1 Others 1 3 4 Total 31 26 57

TABLE 7.9 NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 2017-18 (Language-wise)

Language Central State Total Bengali 1 2 3 Bilingual 1 7 8 English 11 3 14 Hindi 9 4 13 Kannada 1 1 2 Malayalam 1 2 3 Marathi 1 2 3 Multilingual 1 2 3 Punjabi 1 0 1 Telugu 1 2 3 Urdu 3 1 4 Total 31 26 57

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TABLE 7.10 NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 2016-17 (State-wise) (Annual Statements)

Periodicity Central State Total Andhra Pradesh 0 2 2 Assam 1 1 2 Delhi 19 2 21 Gujarat 1 0 1 Karnataka 3 3 6 Kerala 1 3 4 Maharashtra 2 3 5 Madhya Pradesh 1 3 4 Rajasthan 0 1 1 Telangana 1 3 4 Tamil Nadu 0 1 1 Uttar Pradesh 0 2 2 Uttrakhand 1 0 1 West Bengal 1 2 3 Total 31 26 57