We came across this announcement by the National Book Trust and keenly await the survey results: Perturbed by the dwindling interest in reading among youngsters, the National Book Trust (NBT) is doing a readership survey amongst the youth of the country. The website has the National Book Trust describe itself ’as a professional body working [...]
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Policy Changes & Stately Matters
Posted in Opinion, Policy matters, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 4, 2010 |
That e-thing!
Posted in Milestones, Policy matters, tagged e-library, first law e-book, india, justbooksclc, karnataka on January 18, 2010 |
It had to happen – technology had to be taken to court! Karnataka is set to become the first state where all the courts would have the facility of e-library, state law minister Suresh Kumar has said. Speaking at the inaugural function of a new court at Ponnampet in South Kodagu yesterday, Kumar said the [...]
The need to read
Posted in Books, Children, Policy matters, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on January 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Well, you could say we are repeating ourselves. This post too continues on the lines of our previous one on the subject of the reading habit amongst children. Its important, right?! A report in the Deccan Herald of yesterday talks about the following proposal of the Central Board of School Education: Students from class 5 [...]


