PESHAWAR : ‘Books on wheels’:
Mobile bookshop set to roll into Khyber Agency A bus will travel across the region from Monday and hold book fairs at universities. The much-awaited ‘Books on Wheels’ project will be launched in Khyber Agency on Monday, said National Book Foundation (NBF) director in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)
Murad Ali Mohmand.
The project is a joint venture of the
NBF, Cabinet Division and FATA
Secretariat. It was conceived in
July to promote reading habits
among students in the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
The progress of mobile bookshops
in Islamabad and other cities
motivated NBF to plan a similar
initiative in K-P and the tribal
region.
Under the initiative, a bus will
travel across the region as a mobile
book library and hold book fairs at
colleges and universities. According
to the press statement issued by
the NBF, the FATA Secretariat has
provided a heavy vehicle to the
NBF to operate the mobile book
shop.
“On Monday, ‘Books on Wheels’
will visit Government Girls Degree
College in Jamrud,” said Mohmand.
Jamrud’s assistant political agent
(APA) has been invited to inaugurate the project, he added.
According to the regional director,
over a thousand books on a variety
of subjects will be displayed in the
mobile book library. “The mobile
bookshop is an attempt to provide
books at subsidised rates to the
citizens of Pakistan,” Mohmand
said. “The education sector has
been badly affected by militancy
and the mobile book library is an
attempt to raise the standards of
literacy in the region.”
The mobile book library will also
visit Jamrud Degree College for
Boys and subsequently proceed to
Bara, Bajaur and Mohmand
agencies.
Published in The Express Tribune,
October 10 th, 2014.
Source : http://tribune.com.pk/story/773004/books-on-wheels-mobile-bookshop-set-to-roll-into-khyber-agency/
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