Sunday, February 3, 2013
Sandeep Marwah Will Inaugurate Children Section of NBT
Sandeep Marwah was invited to inaugurate the children’s Section during International Book Fair of National Book Trusts, Ministry of Education, Government of India.
Last year it was 100 years of Indian Cinema celebrated by NBT at Book Fair and this time Children’s section which is to be emphasized” said Sandeep Marwah.
National Book Trust, (NBT) is an Indian publishing house, founded in 1957 as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education within the Government of India. Jawaharlal Nehru envisioned that the NBT would be a bureaucracy-free structure that would publish low-cost books.
The activities of the Trust include publishing, promotion of books and reading, promotion of Indian books abroad, assistance to authors and publishers, and promotion of children’s literature. NBT publishes reading material in several Indian languages for all age-groups, including books for children and neo-literates.