“Pustakopahar: The Joy of Teaching & Receiving”

Prayagraj: The Pustakopahar program, which the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan conceived in 2016, is yielding positive outcomes and has been beneficial for the district’s Kendriya Vidyalaya pupils.
The KVS administration requested that principals at each of the roughly 1,200 KVs around the nation encourage their pupils to give textbooks to their juniors, which will reduce the demand for new book printing and save money and the environment.

According to Ajay Kumar Mishra, deputy commissioner of KVS Varanasi area, “the project to reuse donated textbooks received a commendable response in all 39 KVs that come under this region, as a sizable number of students of almost all classes adopted this practice of book donation.”
“Like in previous years, 165 students donated books to their juniors this year, many of them donating the entire set of books,” said Suchitra, the principal of KV New Cantt. Approximately seven hundred books were given to pupils who were advanced to new courses.

356 books were given to the KV at IIIT Jhalwa by students who were graduating from different courses. “Students have demonstrated a big heart and over 350 books were gifted by them under the Pustakopahar scheme,” the school’s head, B N Pandey, said, despite the school’s modest size. The principle said, “This initiative has been very helpful, especially for those who did not come from wealthy families.”
According to KV AFS Manauri head Manish Tiwari, “the books were either presented by the students to the juniors or donated to the school library, from where they were later given to students in need.”
Ashutosh Pandey, principal of KV, Chero, Salempur in Deoria, said that the practice was as fervently followed at KVs located outside of the metropolitan cluster. “Students at KV Jhalwa in Prayagraj were eager to donate their books when I was a postgraduate teacher there, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the same enthusiasm among student fraternity when I joined KV Chero as principal and saw 126 students donate 445 books to their juniors,” Salempur added.
Additionally, students are invited to share with other students any reference books, novels, non-fiction, etc. that they may have in their personal library.