AIFMP against paperless drive

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 17

All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) has categorically termed campaigns to go paperless as ill-conceived. Its office-bearers maintained that digitalisation was itself large source of pollution, adding e-garbage to the fragile ecology, whereas paper was a biodegradable.

AIFMP chairman Tushar said paper dissolved in the environment on its own without any negative impact. The world is battling with the menace of disposing of e-waste, he said and added that printing would survive the digital onslaught.

He said paper mill owners were aware of the loss of trees for raw material of their industries. So they were equally keen on planting more trees as they were aware that their business would not be possible without trees.

AIFMP president Kamal Chopra said printing was rapidly growing industry across the world. He said Indian printing industry was offering the second most employable industry in the world after China.

He informed that country’s printing industry clocked annual growth between 15 per cent and 17 per cent last year and commercial printing grew by nearly four per cent.

The AIFMP will hold its two-day annual general meeting here from September 19.