Nagaland Board of School Education has notified all the Heads of Institutions that the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, New Delhi has launched Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya, the National Digital Library for Children and Adolescent. Its goal is to provide access to high quality non-academic books across various geographies, languages, genre and educational levels.

It informed that the application is available on Android and iOS platforms and serves as a digital toolkit for students, librarians, and teachers. It offers thousands of general reading materials, such as age-appropriate stories, biographies, classics, science fiction, novels, etc. It also includes features such as digital reading clubs and interactive sessions to easily monitor students’ progress. All these contents are available to users free of charge.

In order to unlock the creativity of the Youth through penmanship, the Ministry will be conducting an Amrit Kaal story-writing competition for students of Classes IX to XII which aims to provide an opportunity for the students to craft stories that reflect hope, innovation and transformation for India.

            The contest will be open from 5th October 2024 to 12th October 2024. The registration will be done through the app from 30.09.2024 to 4.10.2024.

            In this regard, all the heads of Institutions have been requested to disseminate the information to the students and encourage them to participate positively.

(DIPR)