*From the Budget Speech*
*National Digital Library for Children and Adolescents *
*33. *A National Digital Library for children and
adolescentswill be set-up for facilitating availability of quality books
across geographies, languages, genres and levels, and device agnostic
accessibility. States will be encouraged to set up physical libraries for
them at panchayat and ward levels and provide infrastructure for accessing
the National Digital Library resources.
* 34. *Additionally, to build a culture of reading, and to make up for
pandemic-time learning loss, the National Book Trust, Children’s Book Trust
and other sources will be encouraged to provide and replenish
non-curricular titles in regional languages and English to these physical
libraries. Collaboration with NGOs that work in literacy will also be a
part of this initiative. To inculcate financial literacy, financial sector
regulators and organizations will be encouraged to provide age-appropriate
reading material to these libraries.
*Fiscal Management*
*Fifty-year interest free loan to States*
*1. *The entire fifty-year loan to states has to be spent
on capital expenditure within 2023-24. Most of this will be at the
discretion of states, but a part will be conditional on states increasing
their actual capital expenditure. Parts of the outlay will also be linked
to, or allocated for, the following purposes:
· Scrapping old government vehicles,
· Urban planning reforms and actions,
· Financing reforms in urban local bodies to make them creditworthy
for municipal bonds,
· Housing for police personnel above or as part of police stations,
· Constructing Unity Malls,
· *Children and adolescents’ libraries and digital infrastructure, and*
· State share of capital expenditure of central schemes.
*Duryodhan Nahak*
*Asst. Chief Librarian*
*Ramoji Knowldge Centre*
*Ramoji Film City*
*(: 8662 È**: 9100407775*
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