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Lokmat was founded by a group of Indian freedom fighters, in 1918, from Yavatmal, a town in the state of Maharashtra.
In 1952, Lokmat was acquired by our founder, Late Shri Jawaharlal Darda, who was also a freedom fighter. Late Shri Jawaharlal Darda launched Lokmat's first daily edition on December 15, 1971 from Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Lokmat Media Pvt. Ltd. is a leading multi platform media company with interests in a diversified portfolio of publishing, broadcast, digital, entertainment, community and sports verticals. It has an employee strength of more than 3,000 and has a pan-India network of offices.
Lokmat Group of Newspapers has been involved with extending a helping hand to the poor and common man in period of natural disasters and tragedies. During the devastating floods in Mowad, earthquakes in Latur, Beed (Maharashtra), Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Bhuj (Gujarat) and Munger(Bihar), the group helped redress the sufferings of the distressed people by extending moral and financial assistance through the Lokmat Newspapers Charitable Trust.
The Lokmat Newspapers Charitable Trust constructed hostels for the children of Kargil war martyrs in Nagpur, Aurangabad and Solapur and extended financial help to the tune of Rs 1 Lakh each to 40 families of Kargil martyrs and Rs 10,000 each to 39 disabled jawans of Kargil war. After terror attacks in Mumbai on 26.11.2009, the Lokmat Newspapers Charitable Trust collected Rs 32,49,000 and donated it to 18 families of policemen who sacrificed their lives while fighting the terrorists.
Lokmat group has contributed to the rehabilitation of malnourished children in Melghat. Lokmat raised the issue of Vidarbha's agrarian crisis and that had resulted in the visit of Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to Vidarbha to review and make a first-hand assessment of the situation there.
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The Lokmat Newspapers Charitable Trust constructed hostels for the children of Kargil war martyrs in Nagpur, Aurangabad and Solapur and extended financial help to the tune of Rs 1 Lakh each to 40 families of Kargil martyrs and Rs 10,000 each to 39 disabled jawans of Kargil war. After terror attacks in Mumbai on 26.11.2009, the Lokmat Newspapers Charitable Trust collected Rs 32,49,000 and donated it to 18 families of policemen who sacrificed their lives while fighting the terrorists.
Lokmat group has contributed to the rehabilitation of malnourished children in Melghat. Lokmat raised the issue of Vidarbha's agrarian crisis and that had resulted in the visit of Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to Vidarbha to review and make a first-hand assessment of the situation there.
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Keeping abreast with the changing digital landscape, Lokmat Group makes its content available for its readers through its multi-lingual news portals and mobile news app.
Lokmat entered the TV space in 2008 and it co-owns a 24-hour news and current affairs channel ‘News18 Lokmat’ (earlier IBN Lokmat), through a JV with the Network18 Group.
Lokmat’s experiential marketing division – Taplight organizes various annual properties like ‘Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year’, ‘Lokmat Women Summit’ etc. which are the benchmark in the their respective categories. It also provides comprehensive 360 degree marketing solutions to clients including ‘Below The Line’ promotions and client led activations. It is the largest event management company in Maharashtra in terms of number of events held. This division also runs various community forums focussed on Women, Youth and Children.
As a responsible corporate citizen, the Group is engaged in various social initiatives aimed to help the poor and needy. It also is actively involved in helping victims of natural disasters and tragedies. Lokmat also works to highlight problems faced by people in its communities, bring it to the attention of the concerned authorities for necessary action.
In its endeavour to create a culture of environmental responsibility among media houses, the company has set up 10 solar power plants across locations in Maharashtra. Through this initiative, Lokmat became the first and only media house in the country to generate and use green/solar energy for printing newspapers.
Mr. Vijay Darda has been the chief visionary and driving force behind Lokmat's growth over the last three decades. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards including the Feroze Gandhi Memorial Award for excellence in journalism in 1990-91, the Giant International Journalism Award in 1997, Ten Outstanding Businessmen, Industrialist and Professional Award in 2001, Late Vidyadhar Gokhale Memorial Award in 2003 and Shri. Brajlallji Biyani Journalism Award by Lions Club of Indore in 2006. He has also been part of national delegations accompanying the Prime Minister of India to Security Council Meeting at the UN Headquarters, New York in 1992, World Economic Forum at Davos in 1992, Non-Aligned Movement Summit at Jakarta in 1992, visit to China and Korea and the G-15 Summit at Harare, Zimbabwe in 1996.
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Mr. Darda was the Chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulation (India) for the year 2010-11. He is a former President of the Indian Newspaper Society, Founder President of South Asian Editors Forum formed by the editors of dailies in South Asia, an ex-member of the Press Council of India and Managing Trustee of the Press Institute of Maharashtra. Currently, he is a member of the World Association of Newspaper, Paris, the Commonwealth Press Union, London, the International Advertising Association Inc., New York, the Indian Language Newspaper Association, the National Readership Studies Council and the Advertising Club of India.
In addition to being a journalist and an entrepreneur, Mr. Darda is also active in the political arena. He is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (upper house) since 1998, having been elected for three consecutive terms. Additionally, he is a member of numerous standing and consultative committees of the parliament such as Finance, Information and Technology, Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Railways.
Mr. Darda holds a bachelor's degree in arts and a diploma in journalism and printing technology from Bhavan's College, Mumbai.
In addition to being a journalist and an entrepreneur, Mr. Darda is also active in the political arena. He is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (upper house) since 1998, having been elected for three consecutive terms. Additionally, he is a member of numerous standing and consultative committees of the parliament such as Finance, Information and Technology, Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Railways.
Mr. Darda holds a bachelor's degree in arts and a diploma in journalism and printing technology from Bhavan's College, Mumbai.
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Lokmat is a Marathi language newspaper published from Mumbai, and several other cities in Maharashtra state. Founded in 1971 by Jawaharlal Darda, it is the largest read regional language newspaper in India with more than 18 million readers and the No. 1 Marathi newspaper in Maharashtra & other states.
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