The Oriya daily   Dharitri   was started  on  November  24 1974  by the Samajbadi Society  from Bhubaneswar,  the  capital   city  of Orissa, India. During  1986,  Dharitri started web offset printing. The   real growth of Dharitri started  during late eighties and  early nineties. This  is  the  only newspaper of Orissa which  caters to both urban and rural,  young  and  upwardly  mobile    readers  and  also  to  the  cream population of Orissa. This is the reason for which   Dharitri  is  both   quantitatively and qualitatively No.1 not only in the capital city of Bhubaneswar but also in a majority of  the districts and towns of   the state. Dharitri is, today, the largest daily  in  Cuttack  from  where   the   oldest  newspaper  of the state emanates. Dharitri   is   the only  newspaper  in  Orissa  which provides  different special feature  pages  to its readers, such as:

With all these packages, Dharitri has got an additional feature to make itself even more special and  that is the bilingual business page everyday except Sunday. This page has created a sizable readership within the non Oriya reading community residing in Orissa.

Due to these attractive features, Dharitri has achieved 150% readership growth as seen in the National Readership Survey( NRS) VI, which is the highest in the country. Being the only neutral publication in the State, Dharitri enjoys the trust and confidence of the people of Orissa.