Bhubaneswar: The e-commerce portal of the directorate of printing, stationery & publication(DPSP) , Cuttack, was launched by agriculture production commissioner Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, here on Tuesday.

Commerce & transport principal secretary G. Srinivas and director of DPSP Mahendra Pratap were present on the occasion.

As a measure of 5-T charter of State government, the Odisha government press has taken initiative to transform the present conventional system of sale to online sale by using technology of government diary, calendars and other government publications. A new e-commerce portal <www.ogpress.nic.in> was launched today for the purpose.

Government press generally prints the materials indented by government departments. However on the occasion of New Year, it prints 50,000 government diaries, 4.40 lakh different varieties of calendars and also other publications. The general public can pay online and get the delivery of the publications anytime and anywhere. This website will make the government publications accessible to all the public both in the State and outside the State. Henceforth, the interested public can avail these publications and take advantage of e-commerce portal for online purchase of diary, calendars and other government publications in time.