Every library in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam is jam-packed every day, thanks to job notifications of various governments, banks and public sector organisations.
A majority of the students are preparing for posts of constables, Sub-Inspectors as the State government had recently begun the recruitment drive. According to them, banks issued all-India notification for recruiting around 16,700 candidates. The State government will take around 1,300 persons as constables and sub-inspectors. Some of them are preparing for Group-2 of Telangana government which is going to fill around 1,032 posts.
With the anticipation of APPSC notification for Group-A, Group-2 posts, some students have been spending over 8 hours in libraries for study and collecting data from books and internet. With stiff competition among the applicants, many are adopting different techniques to gain knowledge quickly.
After observing their interest, the government recently supplied 20 Kindle e-readers to Gurajada Library in Vizianagaram. Union Minister of Civil Aviation P.Ashok Gajapati Raju provided them from his MP Local Area Development Fund.
The Kindles can save data of hundreds of books at a time, helping students to have a quick glance over the required information immediately.
Huge data downloaded
In the normal course, the students have to spend a lot of time on the Internet to collect data. The Library authorities downloaded data at once in computers and uploaded them in all Kindles. There has been good response for Kindle e-readers from the students as the data is shown in black and white, providing relief to eyes.
The students can have pleasant reading experience unlike on computers. “We are planning to supply such Kindles to all the libraries in a phased manner. We may get concession for bulk orders as each set costs around Rs. 6,000,” said Gurajada Memorial Vizianagaram District Library secretary K. Kumar Raja.
The students say the e-readers have become as a blessing in disguise.
“Normally, we have to depend on the Internet for downloading the information. But it is not possible to all of us to use the computers at a time with the availability of limited number of systems. Kindle e-readers are handy and help us do study in a smart way,” said Y. Rajkumar, a degree student.
