Wednesday, 17 August 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
The Education minister Dhan Singh Rawat launched the reading campaign and Pustak Parikrama programme at the education directorate here on Tuesday. The event is being organised under the joint aegis of the Room to Read organisation and National Book Trust (NBT).
Flagging off a mobile library on the occasion, Rawat said that campaign would give an impetus to ‘book culture’ in Uttarakhand. He said that setting up of the office of the NBT in the State would prove beneficial for the writers, educational institutes and readers. Rawat said that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has been implemented in the state and under this new curriculum is being prepared where special focus is being made on creativity, innovations and vocational education. Praising the efforts of the Room to Read and NBT, he said that they are trying to take the habit of reading and teaching to the rural areas. The minister opined that the pictorial books of regional languages would inculcate the habit of reading.
The State in charge of Room to Read, Pushplata Rawat said that we should take the habit of reading to the remote mountainous parts of the State. She said that a special campaign should be launched to compensate for the loss of reading and writing that occurred during the pandemic of Covid-19. She added that the reading campaign would be organised from August 15 to September 8 in different parts of which and during it the promotion of the habit of reading would be made by organising programmes in the schools and other institutes.
Swati Badola of NBT highlighted the relevance of the mobile library and said that the van carrying world class literature would go to the places where bookshops are not there.
The director general (DG) school education Bansidhar Tiwari gave an account of the efforts of the department in promoting the reading culture.
