Digital libraries to come up in over 22K village panchayats

GOVT ISSUES GO LAYING DOWN GUIDELINES; RS 4 LAKH TO BE SPENT ON EACH OF THEM

- Brajendra K Parashar

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has issued a government order (GO) laying down guidelines for setting up and running digital libraries for children and adolescents in selected panchayats across the state.

"The state government has announced an initiative to set up digital libraries in 22,700 village panchayats. The project will be implemented in phases, with the procurement of necessary furniture and equipment being funded through allocated financial resources," principal secretary, panchayati raj, Anil Kumar said.

"In the first phase, we have identified 11,000 of over 58,000 village panchayats in the state," he added, stating that the GO in this regard was already issued last week.