{"id":81416,"date":"2021-06-19T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=81416"},"modified":"2021-06-19T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:35:51","slug":"chief-minister-pinarayi-vijayan-inaugurated-the-dc-books-reading-week-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/chief-minister-pinarayi-vijayan-inaugurated-the-dc-books-reading-week-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the DC Books Reading Week celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81417\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-81417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-19-at-10.51.09.jpeg\" alt=\"Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-19-at-10.51.09.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-19-at-10.51.09-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-19-at-10.51.09-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-19-at-10.51.09-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Minister inaugurates National reading week celebrations conducted by DC Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the world is going through an extraordinary crisis and in the midst of these crises, it is up to the libraries to complete the spring of reading all over the country. He was speaking after inaugurating the DC Books Reading week Celebrations on June 19, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFather of the Library Movement\u201d\u00a0 Puthuvayil Narayana Panicker (1 March 1909 \u2013 19 June 1995)\u00a0 triggered a popular cultural movement in Kerala which led to universal literacy in the state in the 1990s. His death anniversary is observed as Vayanadinam (Reading Day) since 1996 in Kerala. The Department of Education in Kerala also observes &#8216;Vayana varam&#8217; (Reading Week) for a week from June 19 to 25.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister pointed out that the rural libraries were able to reduce the mental stress of the patients by delivering books to the homes of the sick during the lockdown period and to ensure that there was no gap in the reading habits of the Malayalees. Perumkulam in Kulakada Grama Panchayat in Kollam district has been declared as the first book village in Kerala by the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the official Youtube and Facebook pages for more such readings by important personalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the world is going through an extraordinary crisis and in the midst of these crises, it is up to the libraries to complete the spring of reading all over the country. He was speaking after inaugurating the DC Books Reading week Celebrations on June 19, 2021. The \u201cFather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":81417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81420,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81416\/revisions\/81420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}