Improving Growth: Compared to the circulation figures of the other three southern states, the growth of the press in Andhra Pradesh may not sound impressive. Added to the state's population of publications in the past decade are 16 dailies, 35 weeklies and 91 other periodicals. In the past 10 years, the state's literacy rate barely rose by 5 per cent to make it 30 per cent as against the national average of 36 per cent.ĭuring the same period, the circulation of newspapers and periodicals in the state shot up from 1.05 million to 1.78 million copies - an impressive hike of 70 per cent. Andhra Pradesh is one of the most backward states in the country in terms of literacy. Things are beginning to happen in Telugu journalism, rather slowly but surely.
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