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August 2020
Na onal Book Trust Celebrates Its 64th Founda on Day “We have completed 63 years of journey of promo ng books and reading, and our mo o to bind everyone together in a single thread of knowledge con nues…”
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he Na onal Book Trust, India celebrated its 64th Founda on Day on 1st August 2020. The Annual Founda on Day lecture was held online E-a ended by all NBT officials. Prof. Govind Prasad Sharma, Chairman NBT wished all the officials on the joyous occasion, and said, “The Na onal Book Trust, India was established in the year 1957 with the objec ve to produce and encourage the produc on of good literature in Indian languages and to make such literature available at affordable prices. We are not just publishing books in all major Indian languages but also in various dialects and tribal languages, as well as in Braille. Our recent projects in the state of Jharkhand and Mizoram are a few praiseworthy examples”. He also informed the audience about the various internal journals published by NBT for the benefit of the readers. As the Chief Guest at the event, and the main Speaker at the Founda on Day Lecture, Shri Prabhat Kumar, member of NBT's BoT and a dis nguished publisher talked about his own long associa on with NBT, and stressed upon the role that NBT has
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played in publishing quality research work for the special segments of readers, which otherwise no other publica on house would do, because these books are not considered profitable.
premier na onal ins tu on, rather our mandate makes our reach possible to the interna onal forums where we are able to showcase and represent the Indian publishing industry and its achievements.
Lauding the efforts of NBT in projec ng the psycho-social impact of the pandemic through its publica ons, Shri Prabhat Kumar suggested that NBT should take this forward as it is the need of the hour. He further added, “NBT has the resources to bring together the literature of all States and write about our glorious history again. NBT takes up special issues and publishes diverse literature, and has con nuously been taking up new ini a ves to make them available in even the remotest areas of the country.
During the global corona pandemic, we took it upon ourselves to remain engaged with the likely changing reading needs and to come up with programmes and ini a ves that represents our commitment to promote bookmindedness and the culture of reading in the country”. Director NBT also informed all that in the coming future, NBT’s major focus is on mentoring kids as future authors, illustrators, editors to create a be er ambience of reading in the society and the values a ached to it.
NBT’s ‘Book Exhibi on Van’ program is one of its kind not just in India but globally as well”. Congratula ng all NBT officials, Shri Yuvraj Malik, Director NBT said, “As a na onal ins tu on, we are quite conscious of our role and the expecta ons that our authors, readers, and other stakeholders have. I always say that Na onal Book Trust, India is not just a
Also, NBT is going to come up in the virtual space as well, in a big way and take NBT to the community of readers in India as well as abroad through some interes ng events and ini a ves. On this occasion, as per tradi on, officers and other staff who completed 25 years at NBT were felicitated for their hard work and dedica on.
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