LIRC@SFIT

The National Education Policy 2020 has placed emphasis on ‘how to read’, ‘learn to read’, read to learn’ and underscored the critical role played by Public/School/Digital libraries towards this end. The P. N. Panicker Foundation has been a key contributor in this area.  Honouring the father of the Library Movement, the late P.N. Panicker, 19th  June  is being celebrated as  Reading   Day  and the following week as the  Reading  Week. Started as a  Reading   Day  Celebration on 19th  June  1996, it has become a mass movement to promote the culture of  reading . On 19th  June  2017, Hon’ble Prime Minister launched the 22nd National  Reading  Month Celebrations and gave a clarion call to propagate the message of ‘Read and Grow’ among all the citizens of the country by 2022. The 26th National  Reading   Day  will be celebrated on 19th  June  2021, the following week as  Re...

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To realize the dream of transforming the education system and making it truly relevant for the challenges of 21st century, National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was approved by the Govt. of India on 29th July 2020. Implementation of the NEP can begin with effective reading. A webinar to this effect was organized by the Library and NDLI Club of St. Francis Institute of Technology on 15th May 2021. Number of Registrations : 100 Resource Person : Ms. Deepa Panakkal, Asst. Professor, Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities (FE), SFIT Platform: Google Meet The event began by imploring God Almighty's blessings followed by introduction and welcome by Mst. Shrirang Joshi (SE ExTC) and Ms. Madhura Angchekar (TE CMPN) respectively. Ms. Deepa with her usual contagious gust of enthusiasm took over the session with great clarity and engaging experience about the importance of reading, its role in overall development of a human being.  She highlighted on Reading as a Skill while citing LSRW (...