DW BUREAU / Chandigarh Aiming to strengthen the government departments, the Punjab government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has taken various initiatives to revamp the long-neglected printing and stationery department. Due to the ever-changing technology and neglect by the previous governments, the printing and stationery department lagged behind a lot, but now the state government has planned to bring it back on track and ensure that the printing work of all government departments and institutions is done from the government press. Printing and Stationery Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said that with the advent of new technologies of printing in the era of modernity, new machinery is needed, for which the department is going to purchase new technology machines. The Cabinet Minister said that the government press at Patiala and SAS Nagar should be renovated. To raise the standard of printing, multi-color digital machines and offset machines are being purchased with an amount of Rs.1.40 Crore. More new modern machines will be purchased in the next budget session. Giving a green signal to the plan of restructuring the department, it was decided to recruit technology experts as per the need of the hour. Under the OUVGL scheme, Land of Government Press Patiala was transferred to PUDA. A proposal is being made to provide funds for the renovation of the S.A.S. Nagar Press building and for installing some new machines in both the presses. After studying the system in other states of the country in which the printing and stationery department is working better, the better model will be implemented in Punjab. All the work of the department is done as per the provisions of the Printing and Stationery Manual-1975 but in the present era the modernization of the press and the technology has advanced enough for which it has been decided to update the manual. Apart from this, the old traditional file covers have been replaced by new file covers which have the facility of writing the details of the file on the cover. This will save a lot of time. Along with this, logos were also placed on the file covers with messages against various social issues, including the anti-corruption campaign, environment conservation etc. (editor@dailyworld.in)