GORAKHPUR, INDIA, July 30, 2017 (Hindustan Times): The world’s largest publisher of Hindu religious books, Gita Press in Gorakhpur, is all set to add yet another feather to its cap. Having acquired a German-made machine worth US$1.7 million, the nearly century-old press will now publish books with better print quality and improved binding that will increase their shelf life. Prior to getting this new binding machine, the work was done manually. Now, the machine can bind 10,000 books at a time.
The press, which holds the pride of place for publishing over 650 million books from Mahabharata, Ramayana, Ram Charitmanas and Shrimad Bhagwad Gita to books on numerous fasts and rituals observed in Hindu homes since its inception in 1923 in more than 14 languages, will soon acquire other sophisticated printing machines to improve printing quality. “Use of machines will save time, reduce production cost and, most significantly, improve the quality of books,” said KKM Tripathi, manager personnel at Gita Press.