FEDERATION OF PAPER TRADERS’ ASSOCIATIONS OF INDIA

In 1953, the Govt. of India banned the sale and movement of all Newsprint paper in stock with the traders. A meeting was held in Delhi to jointly decide the mode of operation for which a lead came from Mumbai at a time when the local association of Paper Traders existed only at Mumbai, Calcutta, Madras. At the meeting held in Delhi late Shri R.K. Gandhi, late Shri Shantilal Kadakia, Shri MR Batliboi from Mumbai, late Shri Sunderlal Dutt, Shri C.S.Chakrovorty from Madras, and Shri J.N.Singh from Delhi helped in the matter. As the trader’s viewpoint was very strong and argument convincing, they were soon crowned with success resulting in revoking of order. Besides this, there was one more development at the Delhi meeting. Late Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri in the course of discussion with paper traders, advised Shri Chimanlal P. Shah to organize a Federation of all Paper Traders’ Associations in the country. The Paper Traders’ Association, Mumbai decided to take the lead to convene the First Conference of the Federation of Paper Traders’ Associations of India, which was held on 16th Feb. 1959. Thus the History of FPTA began much before its inauguration in 1959.