Government called upon to revamp publishing industry

Kumasi, Nov 15 GNA - A businessman has appealed to the government to financially resource the printing and publishing industry to enhance its potential for economic viability.

Mr. Mukash Drhuve, the Managing Director of Repro India Limited, a publishing firm, said on Tuesday that lack of adequate funding and financial resources was diminishing the potential of the publishing industry as s source of foreign income generation. He was addressing a dinner organised jointly by Approachers Ghana Limited, a Ghanaian publishing Company and Liaison Office of the Industrial and Professional relations (IPR) of the College of Art of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The dinner was aimed at creating a rapport and a platform for the sharing of ideas and experiences between publishing students and industries.


Mr. Kumesh pledged to link up students of the publishing department at KNUST with some universities in India for cross-fertilisation of ideas. Mr. Alfred Boateng Obeng, the Chief Executive Officer of the Approachers, called for a link with tertiary institutions to allow for the training of students who are the prospective manpower resource to push the Nation forward.

Mr. Ralph Nyadu-Addo, the Liaison Officer for IPR, commended the two companies and expressed the hope that such a fruitful co-operation would culminate into collaboration between industry and the academia. 16 Nov 06