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ITANAGAR: The Texu-based Bamboosa Library and APNE Library of Wakro, organized a series of activities to mark World Book Day, braving incessant rains and chill of the week.
At Tezu, the Book Day Exhibition was inaugurated by SDO Lui Shiba at TCM Government Upper Primary School in presence of youth library volunteers and other invitees. She lauded the volunteers for laying out a beautiful display of books and appealed to them to continue to reach out to youth in the nearby villages of Tezu. Books of Tulika, TERI, NBT, Kalpavriksh, Ektara, Scholasitc and Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai along with Lohit Youth Library Network's Monster of the Golden Valley & other tales from Arunachal were on display.
One more exhibition is planned at the Kendriya Vidyalaya Tezu on April 28 next to mark the occasion. Bamboosa Library also arranged a special interaction session with a team of MA Sociology students of Rajiv Gandhi University, led by Prof Bikash Bage and Dr Padi Hana.
Senior volunteer of the library, Asuni Khamblai outlined how volunteerism was the core of the youth library movement. Addressing the students and faculty, Coordinator of Lohit Youth Libraries, S Mundayoor elaborated on how reading sensitizes the sociologists to evolve as social activists and how empathy for reading deprived should be the prime value to be practiced by college and university students.
UD executive engineer Bapenlu Kri, who is also the administrator of Bamboosa Library, pointed out the vital need to go back to book reading to hone the learning skills of the university students.
At APNE Library Wakro, the celebrations saw an active participation of students in painting and story reading contests, followed by book reading and prize distribution, a press release informed here.
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