3rd North East Children Book Fair 2012 from Dec 14

20 October, 2012

The 3rd North East Children Book Fair to be held from December 14, 2012 will have exhibitions, painting and essay competition, debate and recitation as well as story-telling competitions among the students of various educational institutions in the district.

AIMING FOR the intellectual and mental development of children as well as inculcating the reading habit among the little blossoms in an era of ever-expending technology, the North-East Book fair committee has announced to organize a ten-day long 3rd North East Children Book Fair at historical Nehrubali ground from Dec 14 this year as stated by the organizing committee. The organizing committee also informed that during the general meeting held on October 7, the members had a discussion to make the event a successful one.

Apart from art competitions, the 3rd North East Children Book Fair, visitors can enjoy colourful cultural programmes, which would be performed by students as well as the invited artistes.

While taking with the secretary of the organizing committee Munindra Saikia, he informed that they had been stressing on the importance of learning and improving knowledge about the world among the children through reading books as well as to prepare the little blossoms in shouldering responsibilities in nation building. Saikia added, “In the previous fairs we received great response from everyone including the publishers that participated from different parts of the country. This time we are planning in expanding the number of stalls as the different publishing houses of New Delhi, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab have showed their interest of participation”.

Further, Saikia opined that the children are the future of the nation and childhood is the best period of learning or acquiring knowledge for scholastic development, and it also helps to organize oneself for the future. Keeping this in mind, we stress the publishers to bring and display books on Children. It is to mention that the North East children Book Fair committee organizes book fairs biennially in which around 150 publishers participate.