Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to inaugurate New Delhi World Book Fair at Pragati Maidan

New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will inaugurate the New Delhi World Book Fair today. The nine-day fair will be held at Pragati Maidan. Several literary and cultural activities focussing on the theme 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav', will be organized during the fair.

This is the 31st edition of the New Delhi World Book fair. At the fair, more than two thousand stalls will be set up and more than one thousand book publishers will participate. France has been designated as the Guest of Honour Country. 

The G20 theme has been integrated with the New Delhi World Book Fair and exhibitions of books from G20 member countries will also be organized during the fair. G20 Pavilion, National Education Policy Pavilion, Ed-Tech Zone, YUVA author corner, and other pavilions like Foreign Pavilion, Children’s Pavilion, Authors Corners and Lekhak Manch



will be the biggest attractions of the fair this year. Many seminars, conferences, book releases, literary and cultural programmes as well as various business-to-business events will be held on the sidelines of the book fair. 

During the fair, the Publications Division will showcase its ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ books collection, highlighting the country's freedom movement and remembering the freedom fighters who devoted their lives to the nation. The Division will also be offering its premier Rashtrapati Bhavan series of books as well as speeches of Presidents, Vice Presidents and Prime Minister at the fair. 

The timings of the fair will be from 11 AM to 8 PM and the people can enter the fair from Gate Numbers 4 and 10. Entry is free for school children, senior citizens and the differently-abled.