Permission denied for book festival at Swaraj Maidan
The Hindu
Organisers told to hold event at other grounds
The calendar event, book festival, may not enthrall book lovers and exhibitors this year. The prime reason being that the State government did not give permission to the Vijayawada Book Festival Society (VBFS) to organise the event at PWD Grounds.
The society has been organising the book festival at the PWD Grounds on Bandar Road here for the past three decades. This year, the society has been “denied permission” to organise the exhibition at the PWD Grounds.
The PWD Grounds, popularly known as Swaraj Maidan, is the only vast lung space in the city. Though there are a few college grounds, “they are not suitable” to organise the book festival given the scale it is organised every year.
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