National Centre for Children's Literature
The National Centre for Children's Literature (NCCL) was set up in 1993 as a coordinating agency to promote children's literature in all the languages of India. Set up by National Book Trust, India (an autonomous organisation of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India), this Centre helps in creation and translation of useful books for children. At the same time, it also works for monitoring, coordinating and aiding the publication of children's literature in the country. The primary objective of this Centre is to collect and make available joyful Indian and foreign materials and expertise to publishers, authors, illustrators and others interested for rapid and balanced development of children's literature available to parents, teachers, ecucationists and planners. It involves public and private agencies for the purpose on regular basis. Major activities of the NCCL are as follows : Training and Promotion Research and Development Information and Documentation Readers' Club Movement This centre is working to establish Reader's Clubs for making reading and teaching more interesting in schools, non-formal education centres, libraries and in education centres run by NGOs. Reader's Club is an activity centre based on reading books. Children, teachers, book-loving people of the society and parents came forward to set up and run such centres. A simple form has to be filled for the membership of the Club. Books worth Rs. 100 are gifted to each new Reader's Club so that apart from text books, other books are available for reading. Besides, a monthly bulletin is sent free to them. The NCCL organises training/orientation(s) for teachers/facilitators to provide practical knowledge regarding setting up and running of a Reader's Club, selection of books and activities to be conducted without much expenditure in schools/education centres. Renowned writers and experts on activities are invited as resource persons in such training/orientation programmes. Workshops on creative writing or interesting activities for children or members of Reader's Clubs are also organised from time to time. Besides, the centre arranges subject experts for organising different activities such as workshops on writing and publishing, story telling etc. on request for promotion of children's literature. Readaer's Club Bulletin The NCCL Published a bilingual magazine entitled Reader's Club Bulletin ' every month for children. This megazine is sent free of cost to the readers 's Clubs the annual subscription of this bulletin for the general readers is Rs 50/- (inclusive of postage). Inreresting reading materials, activities, review of new books or work undertaken by Readers's Clubs all over the country find place in this magazine, Articles written by children are given priority in publication. This bulletin is sent free to small regional s newspapers with the objective that the materials published in it can be used free of cost by them for non commercial purpose.
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