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Man shuts rural library for 6 months
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/man-shuts-rural-library-for-6-months/244...
TIRUVANNAAMALAI: The rural library at Narthampoondi near Tiruvannamalai has remained closed for the last six months as its librarian, Saravanan, whose wife Muniyammal was elected as Panchayat President of Narthampoondi, has been allegedly acting as a shadow president. The rural library, which comes under the Public Library Department, was inaugurated on October 28, 2003 with the objective of inculcating the reading habit among rural youth and to provide a wide range of books for rural book lovers. โAt present the library has a total of 9,266 books covering topics ranging from literature to space science,โ said sources at the district library.
The library should remain open from 9 am to 12 noon and 4 pm to 6 pm on all week days, excluding Fridays, second Saturdays and government holidays. However, the library has not been functioning since Saravananโs wife was elected๏ฟฝ panchayat president six months ago.
โSaravanan is acting as the panchayat president and is busy with administrative works. In the last six months, he opened the library for just five days when officials from the district library came to visit. The books inside the library are gathering dust,โ said a resident.
Apart from the books, most of the villagers visit the library in the morning to read the six newspapers and 20 weekly and fortnightly magazines it procures. โNow, the newspapers and magazines are directly delivered to the panchayat presidentโs house. When we raised the issue, he told us that the library would be kept open only when he wished to keep it open,โ๏ฟฝ said another villager, on condition of anonymity.
District Library Officer M. Ramachandran, when contacted, said that frequent attempts to get clarifications regarding the defunct library have failed as Saravanan was not responding to phone calls.
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Permalink Reply by Ritesh Kumar Tiwari on
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His Management should either take strict action against him or should appoint other personnel for opening and functioning of the library. Hisย attitudeย is against the ethics of librarianship. He should also beย criticized by we library professional. Because of this type of character of we citizens of India is pushing back our nation. Thisย attitude is against the profession, nation andย humanity.ย
Shame onย Saravanan
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Permalink Reply by Sarvesh on
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Clearly Sarvanan lacks the will, attitude, determination, aptitude and temperament forย serving the people.ย I doubt if he has any basic library qualification.ย This shows that RIGHT PEOPLE SHOULD BE APPOINTED AT THE RIGHT PLACE ON THE RIGHT POST TO HELP USERS WITH RIGHT SERVICES. If not, the result is very much before you.ย So atleast now, the management/authorities Right the Wrong. ย Also One Man One Post - this policy should be strictly enforced too.ย
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