This story is from November 23, 2021

Boost your reading habit at Rohtas SP’s library

The Rohtas police, in a novel initiative, has set up a library on the SP office premises at Dehri-on-Sone and will soon open another one at Rehal village in the deep forests under Nauhatta block where the Maoists had killed divisional forest officer (DFO) Sanjay Kumar Singh on February 15, 2002.
Boost your reading habit at Rohtas SP’s library
The library at the SP office in Rohtas district.
PATNA: The Rohtas police, in a novel initiative, has set up a library on the SP office premises at Dehri-on-Sone and will soon open another one at Rehal village in the deep forests under Nauhatta block where the Maoists had killed divisional forest officer (DFO) Sanjay Kumar Singh on February 15, 2002.
The library at the SP office has been humming with activities during office hours. Girls and boys from remote villages spend their time reading books and holding group discussions during their visit to the SP office for character certificates and other works.
“The books on literature, including authored by Rabindranath Tagore and Munshi Premchand, are also available at the library,” SP Ashish Bharti told this newspaper on Monday, adding that senior officers from the district will monitor the functioning of the two libraries set up as part of the ‘community policing’.
Talking about the second library, Bharti said: “It will be made operational by the end of this week. It is near a government school in the village. The students preparing for different competitive examinations will benefit from the library, which will provide books free of cost.”
The 2011-batch IPS officer said this library was being opened at a village under the Dhansa police station area, considered to be a Maoist hotbed.
One of the beneficiaries of the SP office library, Dhananjay Kumar (20) of Kubba village, said, “It is beneficial for the aspirants of competitive examinations as authentic books are available here. We take books for examinations after completing formalities.”
Dhananjay, a final year graduation student, also lauded the police initiative to open a similar library at Rehal, which is hardly 1km from the place where the then DFO, Sanjay, had been killed about two decades ago.
Guleshar Ansari (17) and Prabhari Oraon, both residents of Kubba, echoed similar views. “We were finding it difficult to go to the cities for preparations due to the poor economic condition of our families. If the facility is provided at the village, the budding talents will prove themselves,” Dhananjay opined.
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