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NEWSPRINT POLICY

One of the biggest problems of the Indian press today is extreme crisis of newsprint. In order to judiciously and justifiably allocate the newspaper to different press, the government framed a Newsprint Policy. But the government’s policy about newsprint so far so far has not been satisfactory or encouraging. Newsprint supply in India state controlled. Extreme crisis of newsprint has adversely affected the interests of the Press. It is important to mention here that in 1992, The Government of India permitted private mills to produce newsprint in India. But this could not solve the problems and the crisis still continued. The production capacity of all government owned privately owned mills is much less than the required quantity of newsprint. Moreover, what is more disturbing and distressing to the Indian Press is the sky-rocketing prices of newsprint. From 1990 to 1994, the price of the newsprint supplied by Mysore Paper Mills shot up by 30 percent. During the same period, the Hindustan Newsprint and their government-owned mill, increased the newsprint price by as much as 40 percent. But the latest Newsprint Policy of the government is much more liberal and open than what is was earlier. At present, there is no state control over the newsprint and anybody can import it from outside. Regarding newsprint, the following questions are often asked: Whether the government has made some changes in the newsprint import policy? Whether the newsprint policy is anti-small newspapers? The present import policy of newsprint was announced on 29.01.1997 through Notification No. 22(RE-96)/92-97. As per the present policy import of newsprint is permitted without an import license subject to actual user condition to those who hold a “Certificate for Entitlement to Import Newsprint” issued by the Registrar of Newspapers for India, Government of India, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, New Delhi.