VIJAYAWADA: Organisers of the 33rd Vijayawada Book Festival offering books in academics, literature, language, culture, tradition, religion, medical, health and engineering, among others, are expecting footfalls to increase at the 215 book stalls that have been established at the Polytechnic College in Vijayawada city.
Cultural and educational programmes being organised at the book festival premises are helping to quite an extent. The venue is close to many schools and colleges, whose students are visiting the book stalls scouring for various books.
This year, there are thousands of books available to readers on every subject, from health to space, serving the needs of children and adults. Further, there are books capturing the essence of Puranas, Itihasas and Vedas, apart from story books that teach ethics to children.
Various government departments too have put up their stalls at the Vijayawada Book Festival. School Education Department is displaying different innovative projects under Atal Tinkering Labs, including exhibits like automatic irrigation system, women’s safety system, rain sensor, frog drill game, scissor lift, and hydraulic prop-liner, which have been attracting people.
Teachers of Bhavitha centres from different districts are displaying tools for children with special needs on a rotation basis. Craft teachers are showing different craft designs of wool, paper, cardboard, wood and so on. Vocational training department is displaying computers.
Students of nearby colleges, M Adeeb and Shuja, said students are buying not only academic and exam books, but also a wide variety of other books on personality development, health, spirituality, science experiments, mythology, stories, literature and Telugu and English grammar.
Vijayawada Book Festival Society organisers said prominent booksellers and publishers from all over the country have set up their stalls. They are also offering rebates on all kinds of books, including Telugu and English novels, and engineering, medical and spiritual books.
