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Promotion of Rural Library

All libraries provide vital services to their communities, but libraries that serve small, rural populations have the potential to go beyond providing information and access—they can inject the vitality that will help their communities thrive. Addressing the challenges faced by rural areas may seem daunting to a library with few staff and limited resources, but any tiny library can find more ways to support the needs of their community by thinking strategically and creating new connections with their stakeholders, patrons, and other library staff. It is thus proved beyond doubt that rural libraries promote education, level opf knowledge and helps in strengthening rural educational standard. Considering enormous importance of the Library, NRDC has established a Library at Balidokan under Kakatpur block of Puri district of Odisha since last Eight years. More than 16900 books, magazines, journals along with competitive books for various professional and technical courses and daily news papers for the benefit of people of all ages are readily available for the people. Different types of books like course books for students, novels auto biographies, books on science & technology, literature, history, culture, stories, poems are available to suit all sections of the society. The Library is named the renowned social worker of the area “Prananath Pathagar”.

The library building has been constructed with assistance availed under MPLad Fund. The building has a Library Room, Toilet, Office, Pantry, Staircase & Verandah but no accommodation for Reading Room & Office. The grant received from RRRLF, Kolkota has been utilized for completion of the building with facilities like Reading Room, Office Room & Toilet. Now the Library has been complete with basic facilities and requisite accommodation and able to provide best services to the readers. Our organization has also been managing three more small libraries at different locations of Odisha which are as follows: (1) Unit-9, Road No-4, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.(2) Plot No. A-7/3(G.F), Indira Housing Colony, Sisupalgarh, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. (3) At-Panisiali, Po-S.Kalapathar, P.S.-Sonepur, District-Subarnapur of Odisha.