Project Report

On
An Industrial visit to:
DAINIK BHASKAR

Submitted By:
Anshu Govil

Rajasthan College Of Engineering For Women

 Introduction

Dainik Bhaskar
Daily
Type
newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner DB Crop Ltd.
Founded 1958
Political
Liberal
alignment
Language Hindi
Headquarters Bhopal
Circulation 2,268,042 Daily
Official website bhaskar.com

Dainik Bhaskar is a Hindi-language daily newspaper of

India published by Bhaskar Group. It was started in year
1958 from Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. Its
is owned by the Agrawal family in Bhopal and its current
national editor is Shravan Garg.
Dainik Bhaskar has 27 editions in 9 states- Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab ,
Himachal Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
In Gujarat, Bhaskar Group publishes Divya Bhaskar a
Gujarati daily launched in 2003. This ;aunch is a case study
in IIM ( Indian Institute of management - Ahmedabad) and
the door-to-door-twin-contact launch programme has been
recognised as an Orbit shifting innovation. It has won
Business Process Innovation award by Marico Foundation
The company launched English newspaper DNA in
Mumbai in 2004 in partnership with the Zee Group. DNA
is today published from Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune,
Ahmedabad and Jaipur. DNA is the second largest
broadsheet newspaper of Mumbai. as per Indian Readership
survey ( IRS R2 09)

Review of Industrial Visit

We visited the printing plant of Dainik Bhaskar on 18
December, 2009. The various observations at the
plant are as follows:
The printing plant of Dainik Bhaskar, located in
shivdaspura, worth Rs. 300 crores. It consists of 4
printing towers with associated machines. The
various machines worth mentioning are as follows:
1. KBA KOENIA and BAUER PRISMA→
Printing tower(based on Germen technology)
2. IDAB VAMAC→ printing machine
3. KRAUSE Laserat 300→ world’s fastest
machine for printing images on aluminium
plates
4. VAMAC machine→ fastest machine for
packing, counting, bundling and labeling the
newspapers.
These machines are used with various other
machines for printing the newspaper.

Earlier the plant used Indian technology based

machines named Ronald Offset. These machines
involved manual operations and produced 30,000
copies per 4 hours. Then they switched to German
technology based machines which were not only
automatic but also produced 60,000 copies per 4
hours.
The printing tower mainly consists of 4 parts each
part corresponding to one colour i.e. black, yellow,
red and blue from top to bottom. These parts detect
and print the images of respective colours on the
paper from the aluminium sheet. It can print 8 or 4
or 4 pages at a time depending on the width of the
paper used. If the paper width is 54 inches then it
prints 8 pages, if its 41.5 inches then 6 pages and if
its 26.5 inches then 4 pages at a time.
The raw material i.e. paper, ink etc. used is
obtained from various countries such as Russia,
Korea, Japan, New Zealand etc. Normally a single
roll of paper costs them about 50,000 Rs.
The printing process mainly involves:
1. Printing tower, which does the printing work
2. Aluminiun sheets, which are chemically coated
and are used to print images.
3. Plate punching machine, which cuts grooves in
the aluminium sheets
 4. KRAUSE Laserat 300, which prepares the
aluminium sheet i.e. coats it chemically so that
images can be printed from it.
5. Ink duct, supplies ink to the cylinders present in
the printing tower whenever an image or text is
detected from the aluminium sheet.
6. Water duct, provides water to avoid heating up
of the overall system.
7. Conveyer, which checks for the water balance
and quality of the paper. If the quality is not
found up to the mark the the paper is dropped.
8. VMAC machine, which packs, counts, bundles
and labels the newspaper. It consists of :
a. Stacker, which counts and bundles the
newspapers
b. Bundle Length Conveyor, which packs
them in a paper.
c. Strapper, which packs the papers nylon
straps.
All these activities are monitored from the server
room where several electronic circuits are present
which connect different machines to the server.
The above information is as per the information
conveyed to us by Mr. Mohan Prasad, an electrical
engineer at the plant. He also informed us that there
are about 150 employees at the plant and most of the
printing work takes place at night from 8 p.m.
onwards. During daytime the supplements are
published. The news that are published is obtained
from the head office located at JLN Marg through
internet.
Conclusion:
The industrial visit to the printing plant of Dainik
Bhaskar was an educating one. It helped us to know
how newspapers are published and what are the
various aspects that are require efficient management
in this field.