Negligent district education officers have not yet submitted the estimated budget for maintenance and construction of library buildings.
The school education director general RK Sudhanshu had on October 4 directed the chief district education officers to submit the estimate in a month. The school education additional director NK Bahuguna said that the estimate has been received only from Pithoragarh district so far. Notices have been served to the remaining 12 officers for not acting as instructed.
In the meeting held to review current status of district libraries on October 4, Sudhanshu had directed chief education officers to submit the estimated budget for maintenance of library buildings within 15 days and construction of library buildings within a month.
On the occasion, district librarians said that they work in damaged buildings and have not received adequate funds for improving the infrastructure of library from the education department.
Apart from this, the furniture they had received recently from the department was low quality.
Sudhanshu was informed that 18 out of 25 posts of librarian are vacant at different district libraries. These posts have been vacant from the last many years in the state.
Following this, Sudhanshu said that vacant posts of librarians, assistants and peons in the district libraries will be filled through outsourcing.
All the district libraries will be equipped with computer and internet facilities. Librarians were directed to feed available books in the computer apart from keeping record of readers’ attendance.
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