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The Children’s Library and JawaharBalBhavan

The Children’s Library and JawaharBalBhavan

Posted on 19 Sep 2019

The Children’s Library with its three storied building is situated in 1.05 Acre of land, owned by the Library. At this property stood Gopivilasom the original birth place of the great diplomat Late Shri. K.P.S Menon from whom the Library purchased it for running the Children’s library, the Children’s wing of our Library. Joining with the BalBhavan society of India, the JawaharBalBhavan Kottayam was started here administered by a Committee of 10 members 5 from the Library and 5 top Government officials of which District Collector was the Chairman and Public Library President the Vice Chairman. But through a recent Government order in 2018, the Five Govt. officials in the Managing Committee were replaced by 5 members from Public, Selected by Government. For the last 49 years the children of Kottayam get training in over 20 disciplines in Classical Music, Instrumental Music, Fine Arts, Painting, Clay Modeling, Public Speaking etc with special emphasis for Personality Development.



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