‘Stay Home India’: MHRD offers free download of bestseller books

Team Udayavani, Mar 27, 2020, 2:37 PM IST

In order to encourage people to stay home as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) is providing options to download best-selling books as part of its initiative of ‘Stay Home India With Books’.

The ministry in its press release said, “In the wake of preventive measures of the Government of India to contain the spread of Covid-19, and to encourage people to #StayIn and #StayHome, the National Book Trust of HRD Ministry, in its efforts to encourage people to read books while at home, is providing its select and best-selling titles for free download as part of its initiative of #StayHomeIndiaWithBooks,”

Available in Hindi, English, Asamiya, Bangla, Guajarati, Malayalam, Odia, Marathi, Kokborok, Mizo, Bodo, Nepali, Tamil, Punjabi, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu and Sanskrit, the books cover all genres of fiction, biography, popular science, teacher’s handbook, and majorly books for children and young adults.

In addition, there are books by Tagore, by Premchand, and books on Mahatma Gandhi.Some select titles include, Holidays Have Come, Animals You can’t Forget, Nine Little Birds, The Puzzle, Gandhi Tatva Satkam, Women Scientists in India, Activity-Based Learning Science, A Touch of Glass, Gandhi: Warrior of Non-Violence, and many more.

100+ books, in PDF format, can be downloaded from the NBT’s website https://nbtindia.gov.in.