New Delhi, June 19 (UNI) Breaking walls National Digital Library is open for all from today, said Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar.
Mr Javadekar on Tuesday at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan here dedicated National Digital Library which he also referred as treasures of knowledge to the people of the nation. From now everyone can read books, research books and magazines for free on internet or mobile phones.
There are over one crore seventy million digital texts in this library and there are also video lectures besides audio books.
The digital library prepared by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has content in 200 languages which can be read twenty-four hours on a single window.
Mr Javadekar said knowledge is must to grow (Padhoge toh Bachoge, Padhoge toh Badhoge).
Earlier, school teachers, students, principals could use the National Digital Library. But from now, anyone can use the digital library on their mobile phones, computers. This all will be free of cost.
“It has 30 lakh plus registered users. Educational materials are available for users ranging from Primary to post-graduate levels. All for free,” said the HRD Minister.
He said earlier there were gurus for knowledge but now you can get it from books which means books have become your gurus and these books are at your doorstep just a click away on your computer. National Digital Library Mobile app is also available is in three languages but soon it would be accessible in other languages too.
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