Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF)
April 25th, 2010
Following is from the page http://rrrlf.nic.in/aboutfrm.htm.
RRRLF is a central autonomous organization established and fully financed by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. RRRLF is registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961. It is the nodal agency of the Governemnt of India to support public library services and systems and promote public library movement in the country commensurate with the objectives as embodied in its Memorandum of Association.
… The Foundation works in close association and active cooperation with different State Govts. and Union Territory Administrations through a machinery called State Library Planning Committee (SLPC/SLC) set up in each State at the instance of the Foundation. To participate in Foundation’s programmes, a State Government/U.T. is required to contribute a certain amount fixed by the Foundation.
Since 2005-06 the Foundation has also taken up the initiative to develop the District Youth Resource Centre (DYRC) in collaboration with Nehru Yuvak Kendra Sangathana, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs.
The objectives of RRRLF, as listed in http://rrrlf.nic.in/objecfrm.htm are as follows:
RRRLF function as a promotional agency, an advisory and consultancy organisation a funding body for public library developement in India. Some important objectives are :
to promote library movement in the country ;
to enunciate a national library policy and to help build up a national library system ; to provide financial and technical assistance to libraries ; to provide financial assistance to organisations, regional or national engaged in the promotion of library developement ; to promote research in problems of library developement ; to advise the government on all matters pertaining to the library developement in the country.
As per http://hkmsl.gov.in/librariesorissa.htm Odisha collaborates with RRRLF for its libraries.
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4 Writeup
1. the miracle | November 2nd, 2011 at 10:34 pm
our organisation has applied for non-matching grant in last year,i want to know the status of my application.the miracle,bhadrak,odisha,
2. RANJAN NAYAK | February 26th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
i m ranjan nayak.my villege has an old library registeraed in 1978-79.but in 1982 flood and 1999 supercyclone destroyed our library completely.we are young mass started again a new library in our villege.we had 10000 or more books at that time bt there is some new books collected by our vllege people.kindly help us to give us more books from your foundation.
OUR address-TRINATH PATHAGAR,RASABERUAN SASHAN,POST-GARAM,VIA-TIRAN,BLOCK-TIRTOL,DIST-JAGATSINGHPUR,ODISHA
3. Banamali Rath | June 8th, 2012 at 11:18 am
I WANTS TO KNOW HOW MANY RURAL LIBRARY \ PUBLIC LIBRAY \ VILLAGE LIBRARY ASSISTED BY RRRLF & BUDGEARY PROVISION
4. Sanjay kumar Muduli | March 21st, 2013 at 10:55 pm
I have one a Libery that Registede of Raja Ram Mohanray Foundation Since-1979. this Address :-At-Katijanga,Post/via -Erasama , Dist -Jagatsingh pur , pin – 754139 ,Odisha.
Mob – 9583614990 . Kindly Help us plz.