Organization : Registrar of Newspapers For India
Facility :Procedure for Verification of Titles
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Procedure/Guidelines For Verification Of Titles :
1. Application for title verification for newspapers and other periodicals must be sent through the Executive Magistrate concerned in the District in prescribed format. As per the provisions of PRB Act, 1867,
a. same or similar title shall not be verified in a State in any language, or
b. no title, same or similar to the existing ones, shall be verified in the same language in whole of India.
2.Titles same or similar to a Foreign Title (F.T) in any language may not be verified until a valid license agreement with the foreign title owner is produced.
3.The applicants/ owners are advised :
** to get the titles, already verified to them, registered, before applying for more titles to avoid squatting and blocking opportunity for other intending publishers;
** not to send applications in bulk; and
** to check their proposed options with the existing titles in “Title Search” menu on RNI website.
** The applicants/owners can also make same/similarity search with respect to foreign titles through internet search engines.
4. Since RNI registers only printed publications, applications should not be sent for :
** registration of news agencies,
** feature agencies,
** publications containing solely coaching material, or
** Electronic versions of publications including titles options using words dot com, dot in, blog, portal, facebook, twitter, orkut,linkdain, you-tube, yahoo, google, Wikipedia, wickiliks, etc.
5. The application must clearly mention :
** upto 5 title options (Along with English meaning of titles as far as possible for languages other than English and Hindi),
** its language,
** periodicity,
** owner- s name,
** place of publication, and
** address/contact number/E-mail address of applicant.
In case more than one language is mentioned in the application it will be understood that the application is for :
** bilingual/multilingual and will be verified accordingly.
** If separate publication is to be brought out in each language, separate application should be submitted. – –
** The publication in bilingual or multilingual should contain news/articles in all the languages in which the title has been verified. Advertisements published in various languages alone will not be accepted as a multi-language publication. –
** If new edition of the existing publication is to be brought out from some other district in the same state & in the same language no prior title verification is required. The publisher can directly file declaration and then submit required documents to RNI for issuance of Registration number & Certificate. However if the proposed new edition is from – – other state or different language (same or other state), prior title verification is required.
** In case owner is individual, they should apply themselves. –
6. The application forwarded by District Magistrate concerned must :
** bear legibly name,
** seal, and
** signature of Magistrate concerned with date and reference number.
7. Applications for title verification, incomplete in any respect would be liable for rejection.
8. The proposed publication should primarily contain :
** news/views/articles etc.
** However, there can be advertisement or other information in addition. –
** Hence the title options using words like ad/ advertisement, classified, tender, calendar, panchang, matrimonial, yellow pages or directory (in the language proposed in the application or their meaning in any other language) may not be verified keeping in view intention of their sole commercial considerations and that such publications generally may not contain news/views/articles etc. – –
9. Applicant should not give his/ her name as title option (in part or full), to avoid any confusion to the readers in this regard. :
a. Name of the owner organization can however form part or full title options.
b. The applicants are also advised NOT to apply for journals in individual name, but can be in organization- s name on behalf of which authoritative research based publications are proposed to be published.
10. Since RNI does not register books, the title options containing the word :
“Book” (in the language mentioned in the application or meaning in any
other language) should not be applied.
a. Similarly titles containing the word “Channel” should not be applied to avoid confusion of it being associated with any TV Channel.
b. The titles containing the word “Gazette” should not be applied except by Government Organizations.
11. The applicants are advised to avoid abbreviations in titles as an abbreviation may have many meanings in its full form and can be misleading to the readers. Also Indian numerals between two complete words are to be avoided. Abbreviation with numeral like B2B to be avoided.
12.Titles would be allotted on first-come-first-serve basis, except in the following cases where title may be allotted on priority basis :
** Where applicant produces NOC from- Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in case of a Foreign Title.
** In case of a direction from the court or any statutory authority,-
** which is binding and it is decided not to appeal against the direction/order. –
Important Note:
The titles appearing in the website are those that have been cleared after verification on similarity basis.It does not guarantee that the title(s) suggested by an applicant not seen on the net, is available out right for verification.This is only to facilitate the applicant in choosing a title along with alternatives. The titles are cleared after verification on similarity, based on Language,State,Phonetics etc.