Haryana Government is planning to link government colleges in the state with the e-libraries of Universities so that students can get more and more quality books for free of cost.Taking steps in this direction, Higher Education Department has started holding talks with several agencies, said Haryana Education Minister Kanwar Pal on Friday.
He said that the State Government has a plan to link e-library of Universities including Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Bhagat Phool Singh Women's University, Sonipat, Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University, Jind, Chaudhary Bansi Lal University Bhiwani, Indira Gandhi University Meerpur, Rewari, National Law University Sonipat, Gurugram University, Gurugram and Maharishi Valmiki Sanskrit University, Kaithal with their respective colleges.
The Education Minister said that students studying in the government universities and colleges of the state can download the subject books required by them from the e-library as a result of which they are not required to purchase books from the market. This will save thousands of rupees for each student.
He informed that the e-library of colleges will be linked with the University's e-library so that students can study any book of his favorite publisher from among the available publishers. Besides this, State Govt also aims to ensure availability of journals of top Universities from all over the world in these e-libraries so that the students of Haryana remain updated about new research and technology in the world, he added.
