The Central Government has launched the integrated scheme for school education named as Samagra Shiksha w.e.f 2018-19. Under the Samagra Shiksha, for the first time, library grant at school level has been introduced. States/UTs have also been advised to set up Readers' Club in schools in a phased manner with the help of National Centre for Children's Literature (NCCL), is a wing of National Book Trust (NBT) to promote the habit of reading. In the year 2019-20, an outlay of Rs. 71164.78 lakh has been approved under library grant for 10,09,357 schools of different categories.