Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 22: Jammu printers namely Arun Gupta of Arun Art Printers and Yogesh Pandoh, Kartavya Bharti Pandoh and Vinod Verma of Dee Dee Reprographix have been conferred National Awards for maintaining proficiency and quality excellence in the field of printing.
Arun Art Printers received three awards and Dee Dee Reprographix received two awards at the 9th Edition of the National Awards for Excellence in Printing (NAEP) held at Delhi during a function organized by All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) in which Beatrice Klose, Secretary General, WPCF was the chief guest and AK Sinha, Director, Directorate of Printing was guest of honour.
AIFMP received 2014 entries in different categories including newspapers, book printing, posters, calendars, catalogue, diaries, packaging material, digital printing, etc which were divided into small, medium and big categories. This time the new editions of the award were kept for Small Printers also.
This is one of the most prestigious awards in the print industry recognized by Govt of India and was hosted by Delhi Printers Association. This 9th edition of National Awards for Excellence in Printing witnessed a Pan-Indian participation as entries poured in from Jammu in the north to Cochin in the South, from Surat in the west to Imphal in the east as also from places like Dimapur and Viradhu.
Rakesh Mehta, Vipin Mahajan, Pankaj Sethi, Rahul Mahajan, Satish Jandyal, Ravi Gupta, Avinash Anand, Nitin Mahajan, Avinash Gupta, Kamal Jandyal and Kunal Gupta members of Jammu and Kashmir Offset Printers Association also attended the function.