Children and grown-ups were agog with excitement as two shelves with 400 books were gifted to the Panchayat Union Middle School (PUMS) at Navalur Kottapattu on Thursday in the third leg of ‘Spreading the Joy of Reading’, the social initiative jointly organised under the banner of the Lit Fest of The Hindu in collaboration with title sponsor G Square.
The drive aims at encouraging reading habit among young people and will be donating books to 30 schools in Chennai, Coimbatore, Tiruchi, and Kancheepuram.
The co-educational PUMS has a student strength of 300 and offers English and Tamil medium of instruction for Classes I to VIII. After the inauguration, children were seen eagerly thumbing through the books, which include biographies, comics, and story collections in English and Tamil.
