Indian Newsprint Manufacturers Association

In global terms, the Newsprint Industry had no foot print in India prior to early 1980s”. Till then, since 1955, only one indigenous Newsprint mill existed- 'National Newsprint and Paper Mills Ltd'(now NEPA Ltd.) In the mid-70s, under, an express directive of the Secretary of the Govt of India, (Dept. of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Industrial Development as it was known then), a move to establish the global standard newsprint industry in the country began. The aim was to produce global standard newsprint indigenodusly thereby reducing dependency on imports and preserving precious FOREX. This resulted in the conception of 3 Public Sector Mills: Mysore Paper Mills, Hindustan Newsprint Ltd, and Tamil Nadu Newsprints Ltd.