Students from Government inter colleges and high schools will be eligible for free membership at the Doon library and Research Centre.
The library will also be developed as an e-resource centre. The number of books at DlRC has grown from 1,8067 to 1,9297 and the membership too, has increased from 1,687 to 1,792. The DlRC governing body held a meeting at the Secretariat on Wednesday that was presided over by Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar.
At the meeting, activities being organised at the centre were discussed, including dialogues, debates, movie screenings, exhibitions, research publication and others. It was shared that rooms that were earlier with the Department of Education have also been given to the centre.
The meeting was attended by former Chief Secretary IK Pandey, Additional Chief Secretary Rakesh Sharma, Principal Secretary (Education) S Raju, Secretary (Tourism) Umakant Panwar, DlRC director BK Joshi and others.