The General Elections 2014 saw an additional volume of over 25000 tons of paper generated during March and April this year. The bulk of this volume was consumed by paper categories like Cream wove and Coated papers. The industry also saw some increased consumption in Newsprints and Copier papers. The above categories of paper were used mainly for printing manifesto, pamphlets, posters, hand bills and ballot papers.
To quote Paul Samuelson, legendary Nobel Laureate, the first to clinch the Nobel Prize in economics ‘The governance of democracy is always costly - be it the consumption of paper, transportation, food stuff, energy, etc., it was all on the higher side.’ On condition of anonymity, a leading paper manufacturer along the West coast with headquarters in Bombay said that ‘In paper like craft brown sheets, writing paper in thin GSM, thin paper varieties like tracing paper, newsprint, the consumption along the seven phased....
