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Youth open a library in the name of Karl Marx

Staff Reporter

Stacked wealth: N. Varadarajan, state secretary of CPI (M), having a glimpse of books at the Karl Marx library at Melur near Annavasal in Pudukottai district on Sunday.

PUDUKOTTAI: With a view to motivating the villagers to develop the habit of reading books, a group of members of the Melur village branch unit of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the village unit of the CPI(M), have started a library, named after Karl Marx.

Speaking after inaugurating the library, the state secretary of the CPI (M), N. Varadarajan, said that quality books at this rural library would not only inspire the villagers to understand the value of reading books but also found a social order. He appreciated the youths’ endeavour in the cause of library movement and appealed to the villagers to take maximum advantage of the library.

The state secretary of the DYFI, S. Kannan, highlighted the DYFI’s various activities towards youth empowerment. In contrary to the country’s pre-Independence history, the present-day youth kept themselves away from political career. He appealed to the youth to play a constructive role in country’s development by developing their skills. The library would be one of the means for achieving the goal, he said.

The Melur branch unit secretary of DYFI, P. Rangaraj, said that a total of Rs. 5 lakh was raised by way of donation from about 40 youths. The donation included Rs.50,000 donated by the Melur unit of the CPI (M) party. While the building had been constructed at an expenditure of Rs. 3.20 lakh, books worth a lakh were purchased on various titles including literature, epic, yoga, politics and short-stories.

The library would be open between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. everyday including Sundays. The youth members of the DYFI, who had returned from foreign countries, decided to start the library as a knowledge centre for the benefit of villagers.

The district secretary of the CPI (M), M. Chinnadurai, said that the library would be a source of knowledge for the villagers, particularly students. The district secretary of the DYFI, S. Kavivarman and the district executive committee member, P. Shanmugam, also spoke.

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