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“Read books, widen vision and knowledge”

TREASURE HOUSE OF KNOWLEDGE: Collector T. N. Venkatesh interacting with students after launching the “Noolagam selvom naam” campaign at Malaikovilur near Karur on Wednesday.

KARUR: Students should read books not just for academic purposes but also to widen their vision and knowledge to encompass all areas of activity. Only then could they face the intense competitions ahead.

The best way to achieve that is to make use of the libraries, Collector T.N. Venkatesh said on Wednesday.

Speaking after launching a mobile library awareness movement to mark the 40th National Library Week celebrations at Malaikovilur near here, Mr. Venkatesh said efforts were being taken to make available quality books and titles to even those in rural areas where there was the felt need to access good and enriching books.

Good books opened the windows to better living, thought and character. Young minds should be trained to read books that contain a world of knowledge and could lead the reader through a maze of problems generated by intense competition that has come to mark the present age, the Collector said.

Not just school text books but also newspapers, journals, books of common or particular interest and books on general knowledge would help the students arm themselves with knowledge that was power, he reiterated.

Keeping the gains of making rural people literate, the State Government has formulated a scheme to construct libraries in all panchayats under the Anaithu Grama Anna Marumalarchi Thittam.

Efforts would be taken to model them as storehouses of knowledge, he added.

The Collector flagged off a mobile library to create awareness among rural people on books, library and their uses. The movement that would last the whole of the week would cover all the eight panchayat unions in Karur district.

District Library Officer A.P. Sivakumar, Librarian of District Central Library S.S. Sivakumar, Nagampalli Panchayat president Palaniammal, Readers’ Forum president Balasubramanian, vice-president Deepam U. Shankar, and social activist Vimaladithan spoke.

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