Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 25: Week long certificate course in book publishing by National Book Trust began today at Central University of Jammu.
“National Book Trust is committed to provide trained manpower in the field of book publishing which is a specialised occupation catering to ever-changing needs of India’s large reading population,” said Prof Govind Prasad Sharma, Chairman of NBT at the inauguration event.
He said that the Indian publishing industry in the last few decades has undergone phenomenal growth creating demand for trained professionals in different areas of publishing, editing, production, design, sales and marketing.
The Chairman also informed that NBT would soon organise a National Book Fair at Jammu in collaboration with University of Jammu. The book fair would see participation of over 100 publishers, distributors and book sellers exhibiting latest titles for nine days. A number of literary and book related activities will also be organised for all age groups to give it a festive look.
Prof Chandra Bhushan Sharma, Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling, Noida, who was also present on the occasion, opined that published items immortalise the contents and contexts. “And so there is need to have skilled professionals in the field who could use latest innovations so that the knowledge of the present era could be preserved and passed on to coming many generations,” he said and added that NIOS would also organise such training courses for its teachers in collaboration with NBT.
Prof Ashok Aima, Vice Chancellor, CUJ, in his address, said that the course would help participants get knowledge about how to give ideas a concrete shape. “Ideas need to be stored in a proper form and format so that others could take benefit of the same. Trained professionals would prove quite useful in this regard,” he added.
Prof Govind Singh, Head, Department of Mass Commun-ication and New Media, CUJ, gave an overview of the seven-day course. He said that this course would help create trained professionals for publishing industry, direly needed by publishers bringing out books in Hindi and regional languages.
Narender Kumar, Training Officer, National Book Trust, presented vote of thanks. Over 40 participants from different parts of Jammu region, including students and scholars from CUJ are attending the week long training programme, being Coordinated by Dr Bachha Babu,Sr Assistant Professor, Deptt of Mass Communication, CUJ.
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