The UT Administration will organise a grand Chandigarh Book Fair-2013 from November 13 to 18 at Parade Ground in Sector 17 here after a gap over a decade.
The Book Fair will be organized in collaboration with National Book Trust of India, New Delhi. More than 500 publishers are expected to participate in the Book Fair. Various literary and cultural events including mushairas, poetic symposiums, would be held at the venue and in the Tagore theatre during the Book Fair. And, the added attraction would be a Calligraphy workshop, book releases and script reading, for which Chandigarh Sahitya Kala Akademy is in the process of inviting authors and poets of National and International repute of all languages, said a senior official of the UT Administration.
The official said that Theatre plays of Classical literature would also be held during the fair. A dedicated page has been created on social media for awareness of the fair. A meeting was held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of UT Finance-cum-Education Secretary VK Singh to review the arrangements for the fair and to sensitize various departments regarding the event.
During the meeting, it was informed that dedicated souvenirs in different forms would be soon launched for public awareness and detailed information brochure would also be released mentioning all the events. All the departments would work in tandem to make the Book Fair a grand success. The Finance-cum-Secretary Education said that citizen participation is a must as such fairs are food for the soul of all sections and age groups of society.