It’s official: Railway printing press to be shut down

Chennai | Saturday | 8th June, 2019

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B Anbuselvan ByExpress News ServiceCHENNAI: The British-era Royapuram Railway Printing Press and four others in Mumbai, Howrah, Secunderabad and Delhi, will be closed by March 31, 2020. Royapuram press is believed to have begun printing cardboard tickets in 1891. The upgrading of ticketing system to computerised paper tickets in early 2000 and subsequent digitisation have reduced the significance of printing press. The anaerobic sewage treatment plant for 10 KLD capacity last year, a pilot project, saved a large quanity of water, said a statement. The statement added that CMRL had launched another anaerobic sewage treatment plant at Guindy Station..