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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the State authorities has spent ₹100 crore to modernise authorities presses by adopting precocious technologies, ushering successful transformative changes successful the printing sector.
He was inaugurating the Kasaragod District Form Store nether the Kerala Printing section done an online relation connected Sunday (February 22, 2026).
“Steps to modernise each authorities presses would beryllium completed wrong this year. The government’s argumentation is not to unopen down presses but to fortify them,” the Chief Minister said, pointing retired that Kerala has successfully taken implicit and efficiently tally respective nationalist assemblage institutions enactment up for merchantability by the Centre.
During the event, helium besides inaugurated CTP (Computer-to-Plate) machines astatine the Government Central Press, Thiruvananthapuram, and the Government Press, Mannanthala.
The function, held astatine the collectorate mini league hall, was presided implicit by Minister for Forest and Wildlife A.K. Saseendran. He said the caller signifier store was impervious that Kasaragod territory was moving guardant successful development. Traditional printing processes that erstwhile took days could present beryllium completed wrong 30 minutes utilizing modern technology, helium added.
N.A. Nellikkunnu, MLA, attended arsenic the main guest. Copies of the Kerala Service Rules and work books were handed implicit to collectorate employees, and applications for gazette notification were besides received during the function. Senior officials, section assemblage representatives, commercialized national members, and leaders of work organisations were present.
The Kasaragod installation is the 13th signifier store successful the State. The signifier store handles procedures related to gazette notification for changes successful name, signature, religion and caste. It besides distributes forms, registers and departmental introspection materials to authorities offices.
Services that were earlier disposable lone astatine the Kannur signifier store volition present beryllium accessible successful Kasaragod, reducing the request for long-distance travel. The caller store volition relation connected the 2nd level of the C and D Block astatine the collectorate.
Meanwhile, the Minister besides laid the instauration chromatic for the caller territory bureau gathering and online introspection centre of the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) successful Kasaragod. He said Kerala was a nationalist exemplary successful conducting transparent and businesslike recruitment, adding that nary different State ensured specified transparency successful PSC operations.
M. R. Baiju, chairman, PSC, presided implicit the function. Rajmohan Unnithan, MP, territory panchayat president Sabu Abraham, and different elected representatives and officials attended the ceremony.
