The Press Registrar General may verify the circulation figures of a periodical, in the manner laid down under the Press and Registration of Periodicals Rules, 2024, in respect of the following classes and categories of periodicals: 

• a daily newspaper, having an average circulation of twenty-five thousand copies or more each day, as reported in the annual statement furnished by the newspaper in the preceding two financial years, and is empanelled with the Central Bureau of Communication for the purpose of obtaining advertisements of the Central Government;
• a daily newspaper, having an average circulation of twenty-five thousand copies or more each day, as reported in the annual statement furnished by the newspaper in the preceding two financial years, and intends to be empanelled with the Central Bureau of Communication for the purpose of obtaining advertisements of the Central Government; and
• any other periodical which, in the opinion of the Press Registrar General, and for reasons to be recorded by him in writing, requires such verification, on the basis of any information, reference or complaint received by him in respect of that periodical. 

For the purposes of verifying the circulation of a periodical, the Press Registrar General or any officer of the Central Government so authorised by him, may undertake a desk audit of the information furnished by the publisher in the latest annual statement, in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Press Sewa Portal, and determine the circulation figures.   

The Press Registrar General may undertake verification of the circulation of a periodical by way of physical inspection of the documents and other information and records at the business premises of the publisher and the printing press.