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lakh for receiving machinery on hire purchase basis through the National Small- Scale Industries Corporation, it has not been possible to make it applicable to newspapers with similar capital investment. 7.5
6.93 The Small Newspaper Enquiry Committee had also suggested the setting up of a separate State Finance Corporation to provide credit facilities to small newspapers. The 112
is being considered in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and a Bill for matter
setting up of the Newspapers Finance Corporation is likely to be introduced soon. The setting up of the Corporation should serve as a boon to Urdu newspapers financially and and will facilitate the securing of finances for acquiring modern printing the
6.94 While a few newspapers and periodicals are printed in their own presses, man more are printed outside. This is truer of the medium and small newspapers. It adds to machinery.
cost of production and diverts their meagre resources from other more important the
The remedy lies in at least the dailies and weeklies having their own presses, run on modern lines. It is difficult to improve production or circulation of the papers unless they manage to have up-to-date and fast printing machines of their own. The heavy items.
coupled with the difficulty of procuring the required machines, poses a serious problem. Even the presses which print their own papers, are in a bad shape and need immediate replacement of machinery. The litho types of presses used by most Urdu cost,
have become obsolete. In the case of Urdu papers, the un-popularity of the Urdu papers
Arabic) typeprint presents yet another problem. For them, the only alternative is the off-set press, which some of the established and forward-looking papers have already gone in for and others are planning to do. (actually
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6.95 The difficulties of procuring the printing machinery will case considerably only after significant expansion in the indigenous production of the printing machinery has been achieved. As against the Fourth Plan target of Rs. 100 million installed capacity and a production target of Rs. 80 million, the actual turn-over during 1971 was only Rs. 3.7 million and the installed capacity was rs. 9.6 million. By the end of 1973-74, the installed
on Urdu