Borshul

Project site: Borsul
Nearest rail station: Shaktigarh
Year of establishment: 1996
Year of closure: 2000
Courses: Letterpress and Hand Composing

Centre in charge: Sri Achintya Kumar Pal
Overseas partner: Deutsch Indische Gesellschaft

Borsul is a brisk cycle ride from Kalanabagram, and our former centre-in-charge Sri Achintya Pal and his wife Purnima would travel there from Kalanabagram to run the press every day. Though the training imparted there has always been of the highest quality and our trainees have never had difficulty getting jobs, the press itself has become a severe drain on our resources. Running a press at the best of times is a difficult business, and it was originally intended that the press should be self supporting.

Sadly, this has never been the case. FERRY and the DIG have had to subsidize the press to the tune of Rs 3-4,000 per month. This was a heavy burden on us, and in view of the government's offering similar courses at the local training centre, we decided the money could be better used elsewhere.We concluded our last letterpress course at the end of 1999, and are now in the process of shutting down the enterprise.
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