• Index of this issue

No. 62, July 2008

All the 75 districts in the country have district information centres. Out of 75 such centres only a few such centres are functional. Besides, the Ministry of Education and Sports decided on 20th February 2008 to established one Youth Information Centre in each Development Regions. The Regional Youth Information Centres are as follows:

1. Triphala National Library, Dhulabari, Mechi Nagar Municipality − 1 in easetern development region;
2. Nepal National Library, Harihar Bhawan, Lalitpur in Central Development Region
3. Laxmi Smriti Pustakalaya, Syangja in Western Development Region
4. Mahendra Pustakalaya, Tribhuvan Chok, Nepalgunj in Mid-Western Development Region; and
5. Kailali Jana Pustakalaya, Dhanagadhi in Far-Western Development Region

The entire newly opened centre started to provide youth related information to the respective users.

The Minster for Information and Communication Mr. Krishna Bahdur Mahara was the guest of honour in the three day workshop on Information and Knowledge Management (ICIKM) 2008) held in Kathmandu on 27-29 March 2008. The programme was organized by Health-Net Nepal and the Tribhuvan University Central Library with the financial support of IFLA/ALP and the INASP.