A Book bank in Hazaribagh was inaugurated on Thursday in a simple function organised in Adarsh market premises of Hazaribagh town. The office-bearers of Vijay Shankhnaad, an NGO that has started the bank, said that they will provide books free of cost to the poor students who are unable to purchase it. They said that their aim is to organise books donation camps in every month in the district initially and later on in entire State to procure books from the donors. We also aim to establish a rich library at Hazaribagh for the benefit of students.
President of NGO Vijay Shankhnaad, Amardeep Yadav and Secretary BP Mourya claimed that it is the first effort of its kind in entire country. They used the opportunity of inauguration ceremony by making an appeal to all the teachers and passed out students to donate books to this bank. They informed that the first book donation camp is going to be organised on January 23, the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the second on the day of Basant Panchami i.e. Saraswati Puja.
The book bank was inaugurated jointly by senior journalist Srikant Sharma, Dr Subhas Kumar HoD commerce Annada College Hazaribagh and Vivek Sharma. It was announced that the library will start functioning from Friday at Aman Computer center, Hurhuru Hazaribagh.
On the inaugural day teachers and eminent denizens present in the programme donated 31 books of subjects like digital engineering, computer science, physics, maths, commerce, economics, general knowledge, etc. The office-bearers of the NGO said that their aim is to collect at least 5,000 books within next two months so that full-fledged library can be started with the start of new session. In this library we will keep books for the students of class X to post graduate levels.