Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has said that libraries should be established widely so as to give a push to the reading habit among people. Mr Naidu, who inaugurated the ‘Hyderabad book fair’ at NTR stadium in Hyderabad yesterday, said publications and the newspaper sector should try to gain new readers at a time when the reading habit was declining due to the spread of internet and TV.
Against this backdrop, establishment of libraries would help, he said.
Mr Naidu said, the establishment of a library in every village and a toilet in every home should become a slogan. He said that setting up libraries in the form a movement promoted social causes in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana decades ago.
