Punjab Government is all set to establish mini libraries at 3,000 cooperative societies to connect the farmers and village folk with literature by providing books to them.
Maintaining that a literary movement needs to be created for the development of Punjab, the state Cooperation and Jails Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa advocated sprucing up of libraries at Panchayat Bhawan and schools to inculcate reading habits amongst the people, especially children.He also termed reading of books as a must for the political people.
Randhawa further announced that during the cooperation week, a whole day would be devoted to the literary activities like seminars, and poetry recitation.
Randhawa was speaking after releasing a book titled ‘Eh jo Shamsher Sandhu’ chronicling the life of noted journalist, lyricist and literary personality Shamsher
Sandhu. Sharing a personal moment, the Minister said that after the demise of his mother, his sisters got emotional one day while listening to the song ‘Peke Hunde Mawan Naal’ penned by Shamsher Sandhu.
