Nitish Kumar inaugurates Patna Book Fair

Inaugurating Patna Book Fair, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today stressed that such an event should be a medium for creating public awareness.
"Book Fair should be medium for creating public awareness," Kumar said while addressing a gathering after inauguration of Patna Book Fair at Gandhi maidan.
He said Patna Book Fair has the distinction of having the highest sale of books and has gained a distinct identity for itself since it began in 1985.
The record number of sale of books at Patna Book Fair prove that people of the state has taste for reading books and journals, he added.

The successful conduct of the Book Fair would further improve perception of Bihar after grand organisation of 350th Prakash Parva to celebrate birth anniversary of tenth Sikh Guru Govind Singh.
The book fair is organised by Centre for Readership Development and over 200 publishers from across the country set up their stalls.