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Dec 01, 2017
Publishers
have a great role in engaging young minds for maintaining social orderliness: Spl. Commissioner, Delhi Police, Dependra
Pathak
NEW
DELHI, 1 December 2017: FICCI organized PubliCon 2017 with a focus on
enabling publishing sector by facilitating effective dialogue and debate over
policy issues, addressing copyright issues, strategies for content monetization
through various platforms, presenting possible international business tie ups
and emerging marketing trends.
Mr. Dependra Pathak, Spl. Commissioner
& Chief Spokesperson, Delhi Police in his Keynote Address highlighted the role
of publishers in engaging young minds for maintaining social orderliness. He urged FICCI to collaborate with Delhi Police in engaging publishers to
create material in the form of story books, comics and cartoons to educate
people on crime curbing, road safety, traffic rules and also on safety of
women, senior citizens and children.
He suggested that FICCI could consider formation of a working
group on devising possible measures towards curbing crime and making our
society a much better place to live in.
Mr. Baldeo Bhai Sharma, Chairman, NBT,
Govt. of India in his Keynote Address said that knowledge economy is beneficial for
developmental and societal change at large, as it will change the mindset of
people. He emphasized on the role of publishers and said use of books and
publishing materials will act as a medium towards initiation of a crime free
society. He further urged FICCI to create similar platform for Hindi language
publishing so that the message could reach to larger population and could be
adopted by common people.
He
also congratulated FICCI for its engagement with publishers for inculcating
positive mindset among youth.
Renowned
Author, Mr. Surender Mohan Pathak delivering the Plenary Keynote Address on Future of Indian Pulp Fiction outlined the role that pulp paper
publishing played in 50's & 60's in popularising Indian literary work,
especially Hindi language books, among masses. He said that Hindi language
publication could reach to common man and became a part of all the strata the society
because of the economy of production provided by pulp. While talking about the
bright future the English language pulp fiction, he shared his concerns towards
diminishing Hindi language publishing due to decreasing readership and number
of publishers and authors.
In
his Luncheon Keynote Address, Mr. Christopher C. Doyle, Author, Growth Catalyst
& CEO Coach highlighted that Indian mythology is a
fertile ground for creativity and readers are inclined to know more on what had
really happened in the past. He emphasised on the fact that the young minds
have the curiosity to know about the past and are open to exploring the
cultural perspectives. He was of the opinion that we can link our lessons of
Indian mythology with our problems and dilemmas in our real life.
Mr.
Ratnesh Jha, Co-Chair, FICCI Publishing Committee and Mg Director, Cambridge
University Press briefed the audience about the
progress made by the FICCI publishing Committee in terms of its contribution in
creation of Knowledge
economy. He stressed on Copyright playing an important role in knowledge
economy. He expressed his concerns towards impact of changed Tax regime after
implementation of GST on publishing value chain. He also highlighted the value
created by the books of private publishers. He urged all the stakeholders to
come forward and create value for publishing industry and society at large by
using FICCI platform.
Ms.
Urvashi Butalia, Chair, FICCI Publishing Committee and Founder, Zubaan welcomed the delegates andpraised FICCI for organising the seventh
edition of its annual programme, the PubliCon 2017. She also mentioned of the
initiative taken by FICCI Publishing Committee to felicitate best literary work
on various categories through FICCI PubliCon Awards.
Over 300 delegates from various government agencies,
CXO's from publishing, authors, illustrators, publishing service providers,
marketing managers, etc. attended the programme.
FICCI MEDIA DIVISION
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