The Union Ministry of Culture will likely introduce a Bill in Parliament to bring libraries under the Concurrent List, where the central and state Governments have equal jurisdiction. This would mean that both Parliament and state legislatures could make laws to administer public libraries, with the central law taking precedence over the state law in case of a conflict. This decision was taken during the two-day ‘Festival of Libraries’ held in August 2023 in New Delhi, where many prominent…
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