Team News Riveting
Raipur, December 3
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for state’s biggest library in Raigarh.
The fully equipped Nalanda Campus at Marine Drive in Raigarh will be a state-of-the-art library. It will be the biggest library in the state and will have all the facilities that are usually found in libraries of big cities and universities. The students will get such an eco-system of study and teaching, so that they can prepare themselves for competition at the national level along with the state.
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai along with 5 school students inaugurated the virtual tour video of the Nalanda campus to be built in Raigarh by pressing the button. Deputy Chief Minister Arun Sao, Chhattisgarh Finance Minister O P Choudhary and other distinguished guests were also present on the occasion.
The Nalanda campus will have a smart library and study zone. Along with a collection of thousands of books, there will also be a facility to access international level e-books. The focus will be on smart learning. Students will also get 24×7 WiFi and internet facilities here. Along with civil services, there will also be books for medical, engineering, CLAT preparation as well as Maths Olympiad. Career guidance seminars will be organized.
To prepare children for admission in Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sainik School after 5th standard, a Kids Study Zone and Kids Library will be set up separately where books and study material will be available according to their syllabus. There will also be a cafeteria along with a conference hall.
The Chief Minister said that yesterday he met the toppers of the PSC examination in Raipur. There was a confidence in the eyes of those youth, Sai said, adding that they told him that their trust was broken due to irregularities in the PSC exam, but when the BJP government came, they worked for transparency in the PSC exam. Corruption in competitive exams not only ruins the future of a talented youth but also ruins the structure of civil service.
When they gave the responsibility of investigating corruption to the CBI, their trust was restored. “Today we have also performed the Bhoomi Pujan of the Nalanda campus to be built with an amount of Rs 42 crore 56 lakh, which will greatly benefit the youth appearing for PSC and other competitive exams. We are starting libraries like Nalanda in the capital Raipur in 13 urban bodies of the state. There will be a collection of thousands of books here. There will be a WiFi facility. Youth preparing for all kinds of competitive exams will be able to get study material here,” Sai said.
