New Delhi: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has set up Book Reading Outlets across schools and tourist destinations in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district under the ‘Keep a Book, Take a Book’ initiative, creating spaces where students, local residents and travellers can freely access and exchange books.

The initiative has been implemented by the 763 Border Roads Task Force (BRTF), Project Vartak, with the objective of encouraging reading habits while making books more accessible in border areas.

The reading outlets allow people to pick up a book, read it and leave another in its place, promoting a culture of knowledge-sharing within the community. By placing these outlets in schools as well as popular tourist locations, the initiative seeks to reach a wider audience and inspire lifelong reading.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu welcomed the initiative, describing it as a thoughtful effort to take the joy of reading to border communities while expanding access to books for students, local people and visitors.

In a post on X, Khandu said, “Kudos to 763 BRTF for taking the culture of reading to the doorstep of our border communities. A thoughtful initiative and a wonderful example of nation-building beyond infrastructure.”

The initiative has been widely appreciated as an effort that combines infrastructure development with education and community engagement, highlighting the BRO’s role in supporting social development alongside its core responsibility of building strategic road connectivity in border regions.

BI Bureau