Mobile library for rural students flagged off in Coimbatore

With an aim to promote the habit of reading among rural students, a mobile library was flagged off here today.

Presently, a total of 247 libraries are functioning in the district and several students benefit from them, District Collector T N Hariharan said after flagging off the mobile library cum exhibition.

The facility will help students, particularly those from rural areas, to cultivate reading habits, he said.

The library will be stationed at Governments schools in villages for a day, he added.