Reading Week 2022

National Reading Day is celebrated to honor the Keralian Teacher, Puthuvayil Narayana Panicker. P.N Panicker died on 19th June 1995 and to pay tribute to his contributions it was decided to celebrate National Reading Day. The first National Reading Day was celebrated on 19th June 1996 by P N Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra and P N Panicker Foundation. For his enormous contributions P.N Panicker is known as the father of the “Library Movement in Kerala”. Under the Kerala Grandhasala Sangham (KGS), P N Panicker established 47 libraries in 1946. The Kerala Grandhasala Sangham was formerly known as Thiruvithaamkoor Granthasala Sangham or the Travancore Library Association. To remember the legacy of P N Panicker Ministry of Education under the Government of India issued a stamp on 21st June 2004.