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Established on February 19, 1984, the library has 2,500 members and also contains rare books With the likely demolition of the building housing the Bicholim taluka library, readers are in a quandary in finding an alternate place to shift the library. It may be stated that the library, which was established on February 19, 1984, today has more than 2500 members and is visited by more than 100 people every day from the city. The library is presently housed in the government primary building at Bicholim and occupies two rooms of the school. “The library was earlier under the Education Department and has now been handed over to the Department of Art and Culture. The library has several rare books and with 2500 members it is an achievement for Bicholim,” says Devesh Kadkade a regular reader at the library. “The Education Department has sent a notice to the library to shift its premises and so we don’t know where to shift it. The new location should also be centrally located so that the readers have easy access to it,” Kadkade explained. “The Education Department probably wants to start new classes or want to totally demolish the building and construct new premises at its place as the foundation stone of the same was laid about six months back,” Kadkade added. “Whatever the case we need a good place for the library and government should look into the matter.” After the notice from the Education Department some of the alert citizens sent a memorandum the Chief Minister who in turn asked the Goa Education Development Corporation to resolve the issue.Following the development, the chairman of the corporation, Kanta Patnekar, inspected the site and suggested some new premises for the building. But the readers are still in dark as exactly where the library would be shifted.
