DU teachers urge NBT to reopen bookshop at metro stn near univ

New Delhi: A National Book Trust (NBT) bookshop at Vishwavidyalaya metro station, popular among DU students, researchers and teachers for many years, has been shut for the past two-three months. Delhi University’s teachers have now written to NBT to reopen the bookshop known for its wide selection of quality books across disciplines. “This is a loss to the university community and other metro commuters as NBT has been a publishing house of national importance. We, on behalf of the university community request you to reopen this bookshop in the interest of readers and Delhi University community,” read a letter sent to the NBT director by Nandita Narain, president of Democratic Teachers’ Front, and Abha Dev Habib, its secretary. “It will be extremely unfortunate to lose yet another book store, a store that is so accessible to students, teachers and commuters. The NBT bookshop created an environment apt for a university campus,” said Habib. The shop, which opened on August 19, 2015, stocks books published by the Akademi in English and several Indian languages, including Manipuri, Sindhi, Bodo, Dogri, Santhali and even Sanskrit.Rudrashish Chakraborty, an elected member of the DU Teachers Association executive, pointed at the role of the bookshop in providing quality and affordable books to DU students across disciplines. “It is indeed ironic that at a time when govt has constantly trumpeted its commitment towards the Indian languages and native literature in higher education through New Education Policy, a key agency of same govt, meant to circulate the same among the students within the university campus, has closed down its shop to give way to a commercial outlet.”

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