Andhra Pradesh Education, IT, and Electronics Minister Nara Lokesh connected Monday (September 22) announced that a world-class State Central Library, built to planetary standards astatine a outgo of ₹150 crore, volition beryllium completed successful Amaravati wrong 24 months.
Replying to questions successful the Assembly from MLAs Mandali Buddha Prasad, Palle Sindhura Reddy, and Ganababu connected the improvement of libraries and cess dues, Mr. Lokesh said efforts are underway to upgrade room infrastructure and sphere manuscripts. He noted that Sobha Developers has travel guardant with a ₹100-crore donation for room development, and that donor enactment volition beryllium utilized to modernize facilities.
The Minister said a ₹20-crore exemplary room is being acceptable up successful Visakhapatnam, portion different successful Mangalagiri constituency is successful the last signifier and volition beryllium inaugurated successful October. He announced plans to found exemplary libraries successful each 175 Assembly constituencies and territory libraries successful each 26 districts, compared to the 13 presently functional.
On room cess collections, Mr. Lokesh said lone 40% was recovered successful 2022–23, 45% successful 2023–24, and 52% truthful acold this year. The authorities is moving with the Panchayat Raj and Municipal Administration departments to amended collections.
Highlighting initiatives to beforehand speechmaking habits among children, helium said assemblage activities and integer libraries are being planned, with a dedicated app acceptable to motorboat wrong 100 days. Libraries volition besides banal a wide scope of books for competitory examinations.
Mr. Lokesh assured that, with members’ suggestions and donor support, Andhra Pradesh would make libraries that basal arsenic a exemplary for the full country.
