Gita Press is the only worldwide popular publisher of Hindu religious texts, which has nothing to do with the political world at all, but at the moment a political brawl has started on it. After the announcement of the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021 to Geeta Press, the Congress party attacked the central government, while the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party called the Congress party anti-Hindu.
On the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Gandhi Peace Prize, started in the year 1995, apart from the symbol and citation, an amount of one crore is also given, but Geeta Press manager Lalmani Tiwari has said that he accepts the honor but not the amount. . However, he has thanked the government for announcing the honor.
What is Geeta Press, when did it start?
Gita Press located in Gorakhpur is a world famous publishing institute. It was established in the year 1923. In this sense, this centenary year of the establishment of the Press is going on. It was founded by Jayadalayji Goenka, Ghanshyam Jalan and Hanuman Prasad Poddar. It is said that he had written a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, in which there were many inaccuracies in the publication, after which he himself resolved to start the press.
A total of 41.7 crore books have been published from Geeta Press in 14 languages. The texts here are easily accessible all over the world. These include Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta, Valmiki Ramayana, Ramcharitmanas composed by Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Durga Chalisa and Puranas etc. many religious books.
What is the objective of Gita Press?
Its purpose is to publish books of Hindu religion and distribute them for public welfare at affordable rates. The publication of Kalyan Patrika of Geeta Press is going on continuously and about two lakh copies are sold. The Press's English magazine Kalyan Kalpataru also sells one lakh copies. The aim of the organization is to propagate the principles of Sanatan Dharma in the society.
According to the official website of Geet Press, this organization neither accepts donations or gifts nor publishes external advertisements in its magazines. The cost of books or magazines is kept at a minimum so that readers can easily study them for charity.
Cheap books, sold in crores
Geeta Press's books are sold at 40 to 60 percent less than the cost. Apart from being cheap, the books here also come true on the test of linguistic purity from printing. Fineness and purity is its special quality. And this is also the secret of its popularity.
Geeta Press books are sold at book stalls of all railway stations in the country. It is operated by Govind Bhavan located in Kolkata. According to Lalmani Tiwari, production manager of Geeta Press, more than 50 thousand books are sold daily. Sales of Geeta Press's books keep on increasing year by year. In the year 2021, 78 crores and in 2022, about 100 crores were earned.
How is the loss compensated?
The important question is why this institution with about 300 employees prints and sells books at a loss. How is the loss compensated? So the answer to this question has often been given by the institution by saying that this deficit is compensated by other works of the trust.
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