About Department :

  Text Book Production & Marketing, Bhubaneswar a Govt. organization is functioning under the administrative control of school and Mass Education Deptt. of Govt. of Odisha. It was established in the year 1962 with an aim to print Nationalized Text Books for Primary and upper Primary School in the State. It has its own buildings, infrastructure with land area spanning across 19 acres (approx).

  Initially, the press started with 16 nos. of letter press machines with the production capacity of 25 lakhs N.T. Books. Presently, 01 no. of 2-Hi Printing machine, 01 no. of Computer to Plate machine (C.T.P.), 01 no. of Forklift machine, 3 nos. of Web-offset machines and 01 no. of binding machines are available in this press. These machines were purchased prior to Two High Speed Web-Offset Machine i.e. tower type printing machines which are only functioning at the moment.

  Besides the office premises etc, there are 191 residential quarters available at the disposal of the Director, Text Book Production & Marketing, Bhubaneswar. These quarters are occupied by the employees of Text Book Production & Marketing, Bhubaneswar. Text Book Production & Marketing, Bhubaneswar is having man power of 200 employees as on dt.31.03.2023 against sanctioned strength of 517 employees. Out of 200 employees 154 nos. are Industrial employees and 46 nos. employees are Ministerial employees in nature.

Functions :

   Text Book Production and marketing, Bhubaneswar is a service industry and caters to the needs of School going children (up to Class-VIII) children of the whole State & children reading in Oriya medium school in the neighboring States. Presently Text Book Production & Marketing, Bhubaneswar takes the responsibility of two important tasks i.e. production of N.T. Books and distribution of N.T. Books through 314 BRCs of the State. About 3 crore N.T. Books of 73 titles are printed and supplied to the 44,46,992 students reading from Class-I to Class-VIII in about 55,843 schools.

   The present production capacity of the press is about 35 to 40 lakhs per annum which is not adequate to meet the requirement. Hence balance N.T. Books are printed by Private Printers. N.T. Books are also supplied to the oriya students reading in the State like West Bengal, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Gujurat and Maharashtra. Besides, sale of N.T. Books to the Public/Private English medium school are also arranged by Text Book Production & Marketing, Bhubaneswar through a sales counter located different district. Apart from printing and distribution of N.T. Books Text Book Production & Marketing, Bhubaneswar is also executing various printing jobs entrusted by the Govt.