17-05-2016, 11:30 AM
The foundation of AMAR UJALA was laid down by: Late Shri Dori Lal Agarwal and Late Shri Murari Lal Maheswari on 18th of April 1948, in Agra. Amar Ujala was launched on the 18th of April 1948 from Agra, as a 4pages newspaper with a circulation of 2576 copies with an objective of promoting social awakening and introducing a feeling of responsibility among the citizens of a recently independent India. In keeping with these objectives that the publishers had set for themselves, the kind of news published was basically revolving around political and social issues and crime. Starting from that modest beginning, 20 years later Amar Ujala achieved a circulation of 20,000 copies and was servicing over 14 districts in Western Uttar Pradesh. Growing slowly, but steadily, the turn of the century saw Amar Ujala as one of the top 3 dailies of India. Not only has the newspaper shed the barriers of Western Uttar Pradesh and spread itself across the entire state, but has also ventured into other neighboring states as well. Today, Amar Ujala has a staggering circulation of over 3146000copies and a readership of over 8.5 million in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal alone. Additionally Amar Ujala is now also a leading newspaper in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. Currently, Amar Ujala publishes a 16 page daily issue with more color pages in every edition. In addition to this, AmarUjala also has in offering for readers three color magazines, namely a) Career and Education - A weekly career magazine for youth every Wednesday. b) Rupayan - Aapki Personal Friend: An all new weeklymagazine for women every Friday. c) Sunday Anand - Bole to DIRECT Bollywood se: A completelynew look film magazine every Sunday. In addition to this Amar Ujala also publishes AMAR UJALA COMPACT, which has all the important daily news in brief, a Re -1/- newspaper from its Varanasi, Dehradun offices. Not ever deviating from the objectives with which the newspaper was originally started, even today Amar Ujala continues to be a completely unbiased newspaper with a thrust on political and current events and developments in all fields across the nation and beyond.
