Viren Chhabra, former general manager and publisher of The Statesman in Delhi, and the former president of the All-India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP), passed away on Thursday morning, his family said.
Chhabra, born in 1927 in Punjab, worked at The Statesman for 42 years, starting out in 1951 after completing a technical diploma course at the London School of Printing from 1948 to 1950.
While at The Statesman, he was responsible for setting up the modern processing and printing departments.
He also founded The Printing Times, the official journal of the AIFMP, in 1977 and continued to serve as its honorary editor and publisher for nearly four decades.