Books from library at the doorstep
The Hindu
Alappuzha Municipality to offer delivery to locals at the click of a button
Residents of Kerala’s Alappuzha Municipality no longer have to go to a library to borrow their favourite books. The books would soon reach them at the click of a button. Come November 1, the municipality will begin delivering books at the doorstep. As part of the project titled ‘Vignjana Nagaram-Vayanasala Vadhilpadiyil’, the civic body will soon launch a mobile application for people to order books online from the Alappuzha Municipal library and 17 other libraries within its limits. The libraries have a combined stock of 2.07 lakh books. “The project is to encourage people to read books. Like online food delivery, we will deliver books of readers’ choice at their homes. We hope the initiative will also help create a bunch of new readers,” says Soumya Raj, chairperson, Alappuzha Municipality, adding the technological framework to implement the project will be provided free of cost by Techgentsia Software Technologies Private Limited, an IT company based at Infopark, Cherthala.
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