The Department of School Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India, signed an MoU with the National Book Trust under the aegis of Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education in New Delhi to create an institutional framework for the Digital Library Platform, Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya.
Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya is a digital library initiative by the Government of India, offering a wide range of e-books in multiple languages. It aims to provide free access to digital reading material to users across the country, promoting literacy and education. Users can browse through various categories such as fiction, non-fiction, academic books, and more. The platform also offers features like search options, book recommendations, and user reviews to enhance the reading experience. Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya is a valuable resource for readers of all ages and backgrounds, contributing to the digital literacy landscape in India.
A first-of-its-kind digital library, Rashtriya e-Pustakalya, will seek to instil a lifelong love of reading among Indian children and youth by offering over 1,000 non-academic books to children and adolescents published by over 40 reputed publishers in more than 22 languages besides English. It will be aimed at facilitating the availability of quality books across geographies, languages, genres, and levels and providing device-agnostic accessibility for children and adolescents in the country. The application is available on Android and iOS platforms and is a digital toolkit for students, librarians, and teachers. It offers thousands of books well categorized in age-groups (3-8, 8-11, 11-14, 14-18) with age-appropriate stories, biographies, classics, science fiction, novels etc. It also has provisions for creating digital readers clubs and interactive sessions and monitoring readers progress.
The Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya app will be available for download on both Android and iOS devices. Other salient features of the Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya will include the availability of books in multiple genres, such as adventure and mystery, humour, literature and fiction, classics, non-fiction and self-help, history, biographies, comics, picture books, science, poetry, etc. Further, the books will foster cultural awareness, patriotism, and empathy with an intent to realise Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.
Further, to help the schools adapt to the application, the Communications Team of Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya will conduct orientation sessions for schools, both online and in-person. For this purpose, a dedicated helpline number +91 9319703004 has been set up. The schools may nominate one Nodal Officer to attend the orientation sessions and events related to Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya application. Name of the Nodal Officer along with contact details (email and mobile number) may be sent to rashtriyaepustakalaya@gmail.com
You are requested to disseminate the above information among the students and teachers of your school and encourage them to take advantage of the Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya app for developing a habit of reading with access to thousands of free digital books. This will help in creating a generation of well-read citizens.
Source: CBSE