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The Joint Visakhapatnam District Library Society, Zilla Grandhalaya Samstha (ZGS), has urged the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) to code mounting fiscal and infrastructural challenges threatening the functioning of nationalist libraries crossed the city.
Society Chairman Vannemreddy Satish Kumar met GVMC Commissioner Ketan Karg connected Monday and submitted a petition highlighting captious concerns, including the urgent request for a dedicated bureau gathering of astatine slightest 5,000 quadrate feet, arsenic the District Central Library presently operates retired of a dilapidated rented premises.
The Society flagged the precarious information of the Children’s Branch Library successful Ward 36, Rangireeju Street, describing the gathering arsenic structurally unsafe and posing a superior hazard of mishap to readers, and urged its contiguous relocation to a authorities oregon assemblage gathering of astir 2,000 quadrate feet.
A terrible funds crunch since 2008-09, attributed to irregular authorities grants, has hampered publication procurement, wage and pension disbursement, enactment for the unemployed, and room renovation. The Society besides demanded the merchandise of pending room cess dues amounting to astir ₹218 crores and sought support for deposit centres wrong metropolis limits to run Grade 1, 2, and 3 libraries successful vacant authorities buildings.
