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Kolkata Libraries

Central Kolkata free library installs marble bust of Rabindranath Tagore

| @indiablooms | Feb 28, 2021, at 03:09 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Tripura Sankar Sen Shastri Smriti Granthagar, a government sponsored public library in central Kolkata, recently unveiled a marble bust sculpture of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore.

Part of their Rabindra Sradhyanjali 1427 programme, it was organised along with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Present at the function were Nadimul Haque (MP, Rajya Sabha), Swarnakamal Saha (MLA), Ashoke Chakraborty (President-Library), Debanjan Deb (Joint Secretary, West Bengal government) among others.

The inauguration was followed by a musical program.

Tripura Sankar Sen Shastri Smriti Granthagar was established in 1975-76 and is open to readers free of cost.

Books related to primary and higher education, competitive exams, etc. are available in English, Bengali and Hindi languages.
 

(DISCLAIMER: This report is based on a press release. Amid an ongoing row over fake vaccination in Kolkata and impersonation by an individual as an IAS officer, IBNS wishes to state that it had not independently verified the designations of people mentioned in the report since it was generated from a press release any news organisation routinely receives.)

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