Overview
- At Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, the nine-day Gorakhpur Book Festival opened with over 200 stalls and will run through November 9.
- Yogi Adityanath said about 1.36 lakh of 1.56 lakh primary schools have been rejuvenated under Operation Kayakalp with libraries and digital reading spaces.
- Libraries have been set up in 57,600 gram panchayats and village secretariats as part of a state push to build a reading culture.
- The chief minister urged students to cut screen time and read more, recommending titles such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Exam Warriors.
- During the event he distributed books to schoolchildren, honored Anganwadi workers and contest winners, and he earlier directed swift grievance redressal at a Janta Darshan with orders against illegal land grabbing.