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allowed some of the newspapers the facility of getting their copies printed at the Government press, in view of the insufficiency of printing arrangements in the State at that time. The experiment failed because most of the newspapers so helped were not Kashmir
to pay the printing charges and the scheme had to be abandoned. 6.73 The unhappy choice now lies between coming up with a set of proposals which able
aim at improving the lot of most, if not all, Urdu newspapers and periodicals, might
sprading assistance too thin to be of any real value or, alternatively, to restrict the scope of recommendations to a limited but deserving segment, which has shown the desire and the capacity to improve. In our opinion the situation warrants adopting thereby
latter course. Then only can the benefits flowing from our recommendations prove somewhat adequate. In the process of helping the deserving ones, the Urdu press, as whole, is bound to benefit because faster progress would be visible in such cases. If a the
improves substantially, it acts as a general stimulant and catalyst and throws up section
opportunities for the rest of the tribe. The recommendations we are making here take into account the claims for greater assistance by either those papers who are already doing a good job within their limited resources or those who demonstrate an newer
to utilize whatever might accrue as a result of these recommendations. 6.74 Our Sub-Committee on Journalism has noticed the existence of a widely-held ability
that the numb CT of Urdu reading persons was decreasing fast, and that, mainly belief
responsible for a fall in circulation. As we proceeded to examine this preliminary assumption, the actual figure's revealed a somewhat different story. Between 1957 and 1970, the circulation figures had nearly doubled. So had the number of Urdu was
and periodicals. The sudden fall in circulation in 1971 may be due to tighter newspapers
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scrutiny of claims for circulation. Our surmise is based on the difference in the circulation claimed and the circulation assessed by the Registar of Newspapers of India, as a result of the investigations carried out by him. He has, however, emphasized that "the incidence of exaggeration has gone down markedly as a result of circulation probes
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