Gita Press sees huge surge in demands for Ramayana

Huge surge in demands for Ramayana-related scriptures ahead of Ram Lalla Pran Pratishtha, runs out of Ramcharitmanas stock

The demand for Ram-related scriptures has gone so high that Gita Press in Gorakhpur, the premier publisher of Hindu scriptures, have now run out of copies and finding it difficult to meet demands.

Gita Press sees huge surge in demands for Ramayana: Ever since the date of Pran Pratishtha ceremony of Ram Lalla at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya was announced, the country has witnessed huge surge in materials and scriptures related to Lord Ram and Ramayana. The demand for Ram-related scriptures has gone so high that Gita Press in Gorakhpur, the premier publisher of Hindu scriptures, have now run out of copies and finding it difficult to meet demands.

Gita Press sees huge surge in demands for Ramayana

Lalmani Tripathi, Manager of Gita Press, said that after the Ram Mandir inauguration was announced, demands for Ramcharitmanas, along with Sunder kand and Hanuman Chalisa have gone up substantially. He said that press has no stock left for Ramcharitmanas. Tripathi said that as soon as copies are printed, they are shipped immediately due to the demands, and have no inventory of the copies of the Ramayana version by Tulsidas.

VIDEO | For the first time in 50 years, Gita Press in UP's Gorakhpur is facing shortage of Ramcharitmanas in its stock amid rise in demand ahead of the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22. pic.twitter.com/twZYGgU05c

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He said that generally Gita Press prints 75,000 copies of the scripture, this year they published 1 lakh copies, and still all stock were exhausted. He said that apart from Ramcharitmanas, demands for Sunder kand and Hanuman Chalisa have also increased.

As per PTI, this is the first time that Gita Press is facing a shortage of Ramcharitmanas in its stock.