Ministries, PSUs told to stop printing calendars, diaries
In a bid to take the promise of digital India one step further, the finance ministry on 2 September issued guidelines to ban printing of diaries, greeting cards, coffee table books, calendars in physical form. All such items will now be issued only in the digital form. The notification is a part of the government’s economy measures to promote digitisation.
04 Sep 2020 | By PrintWeek Team
The notification said technology is known to be economical, efficient and effective
The decision, however, will prove to be a major blow for commercial printers across the country, especially those in tier-II, tier-III cities, and especially those who depend on government orders.
The government said it took the decision as using technological innovations for planning, scheduling and forecasting is known to be economical, efficient and effective.
The office memorandum by the department of expenditure, ministry of finance, said, “As the world is increasingly moving towards adopting digital force multipliers for productivity and given the fact that using technological innovations for planning, scheduling and forecasting is known to be economical, efficient and effective, the government of India has decided that there will be no further activities towards printing wall calendars, desktop calendars, diaries, festival greeting cards and similar materials by all ministries/ departments/ autonomous bodies and other organs of the government.”
Coffee table books, which have also been banned, are to be substituted by eBooks.
It added that the measures will come into force with immediate effect.
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