Question : DAVP ADVERTISEMENTS

(a) the details of the newspapers getting advertisements from the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) till date, State/UT-wise;

(b) the norms for including small and medium sized newspapers in the advertisement list of the DAVP;

(c) the details of applications/requests received by the Government/Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) for registration of newspapers/magazines along with the details of applications cleared/pending with the Government/RNI, so far; and

(d) the time by which the pending applications are likely to be cleared?

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION & BROADCASTING (SHRI MANISH TEWARI)

(a) The details of newspapers getting advertisements from DAVP till 30.4.2013, State/ UT-wise are available at DAVP website, www.davp.nic.in.

(b) The Clause 26 of the Advertisement Policy of the Government states that 35% of the budget meant for display advertisements should be earmarked for medium category newspapers and 15% for small category newspapers in Rupee terms.

(c) The details of applications/requests received, disposed of, pending for registration of newspapers/periodicals by Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) from 1.4.2012 till 31.3. 2013 is at Annexure.

(d) On receipt of complete and correct documents from the publishers concerned, the Certificate of Registration is issued within 30 working days.