K N Shanth Kumar, Editor of Prajavani and Director of The Printers Mysore Ltd., Bangalore, India was unanimously elected as the new Chairman of WAN-IFRA South Asia Committee at the meeting held on 20 September, on the sidelines of WAN-IFRA India 2016 Conference, Kolkata. He is also a Board member of WAN-IFRA and takes over from K Balaji, Director of Kasturi & Sons Ltd., India and a Board member of WAN-IFRA, who stepped down from the position.

The South Asia Committee is formed in September 2004, to help and guide WAN-IFRA to shape its activities to serve the industry better. K Balaji is the first Chairman of the Committee. The Committee has done several industry leading projects including the setting up the Research and Material Testing Centre in Chennai, to offer testing of paper and ink, and also simulated press training.

The Committee also was instrumental in WAN-IFRA setting up the World Printers Forum as the central point of the international news media print community, and to promote the power of print and the sustainability of print production.

For queries, please write to Magdoom Mohamed, Managing Director – South Asia, WAN-IFRA, Chennai, India. magdoom.mohamed@wan-ifra.org.