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In the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, civil services aspirants and those preparing for other competitive examinations will not have to visit big cities anymore looking for books and references.
The state Panchayati Raj Department is soon setting up digital libraries in 11,350 gram panchayats of the state’s 35 districts in the first phase to help students prepare for competitive exams without depending on coaching classes, the state government said in a statement. Each library will have e-books, video lectures, audio content, quizzes and nearly 20,000 digital educational resources. The government is spending Rs 4 lakh on each library — Rs 2 lakh on books, Rs 1.30 lakh on IT equipment and Rs 70,000 on furniture.
Director, Panchayati Raj, Amit Kumar Singh said, “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had issued directions in this regard. The digital libraries are being established in phases in all gram panchayats of the state. This will improve the level of education in rural areas and make the youth more equipped for employment. The gram pradhans and secretaries have been directed to manage these libraries, with assistant officers overseeing them on a regular basis.”
The department said the selection of books for the 35 districts has been completed.
These districts are Amroha, Azamgarh, Lucknow, Banda, Ballia, Baghpat, Badaun, Bareilly, Bijnor, Chitrakoot, Etah, Fatehpur, Farrukhabad, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Ghazipur, Hardoi, Hapur, Jalaun, Kanpur Dehat, Kannauj, Kaushambi, Kasganj, Mau, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, Pratapgarh, Prayagraj, Raebareli, Sambhal, Shamli, Siddharthnagar, Shravasti, Sultanpur, Sitapur.
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