In an era when reading habit of books is in a declining trend, a public library inside Integrated Public Service Centre (IPSC) Saheed Nagar, started functioning on Monday as a collaborative effort of the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited and the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. Currently, 20 newspapers and 15 periodicals and magazines are available for the readers at the library of IPSC Saheed Nagar.
Books on Odia/English literature, various competitive and entrance examinations, health, wellbeing, fitness, history, contemporary Indian literature, religion, poetry and other subjects are available. More and more titles will also be added and more space will also be provided to the library in near future.
With opening of the library, local residents, students, senior citizens and aspirants of competitive exams and people from the nearby slums will be greatly benefitted as the facility will remain open between 10 am and 2 pm. In near future it will also remain open from 4 pm to 7 pm.