With the aim of promoting reading habit among students in rural schools, a mobile library was flagged off on July 5 by District Collector T.N. Hariharan.
According to sources, the initiative by the District Central Library in R.S. Puram would benefit students of State Government-run schools in Govindapuram, Chenniyur, Narayana Chettipalayam, Sulakkal, Kollampalayam, Kondampatti, Gothavadi, M.A. Koundampalayam, Devanampalayam, Kovilpalayam, Cheran Nagar, Zamin Kaliapuram, Pattanam, Peedampalli and other places across the district.
They said that the Library Officers had focussed on villages without library facilities. The mobile library van with 4,000 books at a time would move to government schools in the villages once every 15 days. Students or their head masters could register and then borrow as much books as they wanted. They should return those during the next routine visit of the mobile library.
The mobile library would have books in science, history and culture. The initiative in Coimbatore was part of the State Government’s programme to have such mobile libraries in 10 districts.
