All Press Registration Services Now Online through Press Sewa Portal; Over 1.5 Lakh Periodical Records Digitized

• Press Sewa Portal is the single-window online platform of the Press Registrar General of India (PRGI) under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting for end-to-end digital registration/regulation of periodicals under the Press and Registration of Periodicals (PRP) Act, 2023.
• It replaces the colonial Press and Registration of Books (PRB) Act, 1867 regime, ending physical filing at the erstwhile Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI).
• Relevant for GS-II (governance, e-governance, statutory bodies) and GS-III (IT, ease of doing business); also Prelims-friendly for the PRP Act, 2023 factual cluster.