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435 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 2016-17, a total number of 20,495 Annual Statements were received from the publishers online in respect of other Periodicals raising their claimed circulation figure to 21,27,28,237 copies per publishing day (Table 7.2). As a growth rate of 19.26% was recorded in e-filing of Annual Statements by Weeklies and other Periodicals, a decrease of 10.85% 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 10,638 publications out of 20,495 publications which filed online Annual Statements for 2016-17 and in circulation also remained top by claiming 11,94,98,723 out of 21,27,28,237 copies per publishing day, followed by Monthlies 5,788 with circulation of 5,13,27,699 copies, Fortnightlies 2,804 with circulation of 2,60,79,617 copies, Quarterlies 446 with circulation of 20,16,051 copies and Annuals 96 with circulation of 14,50,045 copies. The remaining 723 publications were of other periodicities with a claimed circulation of 1,23,56,102 copies per publishing day. (Table 7.2) LANGUAGE WISE 7.2.1. While going through Annual Statements filed for the year 2016-17, it has been observed that Periodicals were brought out in all principal languages of the country except Bodo. Language wise analysis states that Hindi Periodicals have maintained a lead with 11,600 publications followed by English (1,487), Marathi (1424), Gujarati (1,409), Bilingual (1,205), Telugu (939), Urdu (643), Bengali (389), Kannada (354), Odia (279), Tamil (241) and Malayalam (197). (Table 7.3) 7.2.2. In circulation also, Hindi Periodicals maintain their lead with a total circulation of 11,20,57,783 copies per publishing day followed by English (2,74,59,953), Gujarati (1,28,96,421), Bilingual (1,07,88,541), Marathi (99,51,128), Telugu (88,35,046), Malayalam (66,09,299) and Urdu (63,38,293). (Table 7.3) 436 The Press in India 2016-17 STATE/UT-WISE 7.3.1. Uttar Pradesh continued to maintain its lead with 3,870 Periodicals; Madhya Pradesh came second with 3,522 followed by Maharashtra 2,248, Uttarakhand 1,773, Delhi 1,760, Gujarat 1,491 and Rajasthan 1,406. (Table 7.4) 7.3.2. Uttar Pradesh remained on top position in terms of circulation also with a claim of 4,43,92,521 copies per publishing day followed by Delhi with 2,70,34,631 copies, Madhya Pradesh 2,44,37,825 copies, Maharashtra 2,11,39,095 copies, Gujarat 1,41,10,724 copies and Uttarakhand 1,39,26,306 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 2016-17. 7.4.2. The Periodicals which cover major topics fall under the category of NCA (News and Current Affairs 18,544), followed by UNC (Unclassified 512), SOW (Social Welfare 244), EDU (Education 235), LAC (Literature & Culture 172), MAH (Medicine and Health 160) and AAH (Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 98) 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 10,638 and 5,788 publications in numbers respectively. (Table 7.5) 7.4.4. Periodicals were published in all major Indian languages except Bodo and Manipuri 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 11,600 publications followed by English & Marathi with 1,487 & 1,424 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 18,55,87,724 copies followed by UNC (Unclassified 81,48,587) EDU (Education 37,34,415), LAC (Literature & Culture 22,08,308) and SOW (Social Welfare 21,63,256). (Table 7.7) CIRCULATION OF WEEKLIES AND OTHER PERIODICALS 437 GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 7.5.1. There were 60 Government Publications, which filed Annual Statements for the year 2016-17, out of which 35 belonged to the Central and 25 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 60 Government Publications, Monthlies dominated the scene having 40 in number followed by Weeklies, Quarterlies, and Fortnightlies and Daily having 5, 4, 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 (20) followed by Hindi (11), Bilingual (7), Malayalam (5), Urdu (3) and Telugu (3). (Table 7.9) CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 7.6.1. Out of 35 Central Government Publications; 18 were in English, 07 in Hindi, 04 in Malayalam, 2 in Urdu and 1 each in Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi. (Table 7.9) 7.6.2. Out of 35 Central Government Publications; 23 were published from Delhi followed by 5 from Kerala, 2 from Maharashtra and 1 each from Assam, Telangana, Karnataka, West Bengal and Uttarakhand. (Table 7.10) STATE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 7.7.1. There were 25 State Government Publications which filed their Annual Statements in 2016-17. Out of this, 7 were in Bilingual, 4 were in Hindi, 3 were in Marathi, 2 each were in Bengali, English and Telugu, 1 each were in Gujarati, Kannada, Multilingual, Urdu and Malayalam. (Table 7.9) 7.7.2. State-wise study shows that, 3 each were from Delhi, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, 2 each were from West Bengal, A.P., and Telangana, 1 each from Assam, Gujarat, U.P., Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. (Table 7.10) LARGEST CIRCULATED GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Employment News, English/Weekly published from Delhi by the Publications Division, M/o I&B, Government of India, had a circulation of 2,13,620 copies per publishing day. 438 The Press in India 2016-17 LIST OF PERIODICALS CLAIMING MORE THAN ONE LAKH CIRCULATION Title Language Periodicity Place of Publication Circulation The Sunday Times of India English Weekly Delhi 835269 Daily (Monday The Times of India English Mumbai 830501 to Saturday) Sunday Times of India English Weekly Mumbai 790672 Sunday Navbharat Times Hindi Weekly Mumbai 669627 Sunday Hindustan Times English Weekly Delhi 668590 Vanitha Malayalam Fortnightly Kottayam 647104 Sunday Mumbai Mirror English Weekly Mumbai 640704 Amar Ujala Udaan Hindi Weekly Gautam Buddha Nagar 608234 Daily (Monday Mumbai Mirror English Mumbai 541607 to Saturday) The Sunday Times of India English Weekly Bangalore 422186 Daily (Monday Hindustan Hindi Patna 406404 to Saturday) Sunday Hindustan Times English Weekly Mumbai 397638 Ravivasriya Hindustan Hindi Weekly Patna 392074 Mathrubhumi Thozhil Vartha Malayalam Weekly Kozhikode 380125 Malayala Manorama Weekly Malayalam Weekly Kottayam 378590 Gadchiroli Patrika Marathi Weekly Gadchiroli 338000 Karmasangsthaan Bengali Weekly Kolkata 337562 Grahlaxmi Hindi Monthly Delhi 333166 The Hindu English Weekly Chennai 320055 Annadata Telugu Monthly Hyderabad 314708 Sandesh Anand Marathi Daily Evening Nagpur 312000 Meri Saheli Hindi Monthly Mumbai 307493 Ravivasriya Hindustan Hindi Weekly Delhi 303908 Saras Salil Hindi Fortnightly Delhi 300635 Manorama Year Book English Annual Kottayam 300000 Ravivar Maharashtra Times Marathi Weekly Mumbai 298089 The Hindu Young World English Weekly Chennai 292741 Sunday Shalom Malayalam Weekly Kozhikode 278393 The Sunday Times of India English Weekly Kolkata 269623 Sunday Times of India English Weekly Chennai 265255 Ravivar Loksatta Marathi Weekly Mumbai 260214 Hamara Bal Prabhat Hindi Weekly Ranchi 253594 The Chartered Accountant English Monthly Delhi 253182 South Twenty Four Ascent English Weekly 250000 Parganas Education Times English Weekly Kolkata 250000 Kasrat Marathi Daily Evening Amravati 246925 CIRCULATION OF WEEKLIES AND OTHER PERIODICALS 439 Ravivasriya Hindustan Hindi Weekly Lucknow 235400 Mathrubhumi Arogya Masika Malayalam Monthly Kozhikode 234451 Prabhat Khabar Healthy Life Hindi Weekly Ranchi 230690 Chennai (Printed at The Hindu English Weekly 225532 Bangalore) The Sunday Times of India English Weekly Pune 216695 Kendriya Manavadhikar Hindi Daily Evening Nagpur 216000 The Readers Digest English Monthly Mumbai 215923 Employment News English Weekly Delhi 213620 Deepotsav Marathi Annual Nagpur 209145 Daily (Monday The Economic Times English Mumbai 209104 to Saturday) Grihalakshmi Malayalam Fortnightly Kozhikode 207834 Nai Sadi Ki Prastuti Hindi Weekly Delhi 205629 Ravivasriya Hindustan Hindi Weekly Kanpur 200119 Ananda Vikatan Tamil Weekly Chennai 198389 Mangayar Malar Tamil Fortnightly Chennai 197202 Ravivasriya Hindustan Hindi Weekly Muzaffarpur 197123 Rashtra Doot Hindi Weekly Jaipur 195795 Pratiyogita Darpan