Gadchiroli June 29 (District Correspondent) As part of instilling a love of reading and a sense of nationalism among students, a wall library project is being implemented in 1,000 schools in Gadchiroli district, providing students from tribal and remote areas with the opportunity to read inspiring and informative stories.
This inspiring initiative is being implemented from the social responsibility fund of Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust to provide 50,000 books. About one lakh students will benefit from this.
‘Swapnoka Pitara’ is a small wall-mounted library of this Trust. Each library will have about 50 colourful, carefully selected quality story books in Marathi and English based on topics such as amazing stories in science and space exploration, values of life, leadership, folk tales, stories of freedom fighters and brave soldiers, myths, fantasy worlds, etc. This initiative makes reading enjoyable and easy for children. Through this, an attempt is being made to transform classrooms into inspiring, imaginative and thought-provoking educational spaces and to build a reading movement.
The Ratna Nidhi Storybook Project is an initiative to create children’s literature reading revolution in India. In this, one million quality story books are being produced, published and distributed free of cost. Through this, the objectives of inculcating the habit of reading at an early age, increasing creative and intellectual curiosity among the children in the age group of 5 to 14 are being achieved.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with the cooperation of Gadchiroli District Collector Avishyant Panda to start an ambitious initiative to establish libraries in schools in the district. The work of installing these libraries in schools will start from this week and the project will be completed in the next six months. In the future, the district administration intends to start such libraries in all 1991 schools in the district.
