Muskan, a ten-year-old from the slum area of ​​Durga Nagar in Bhopal, is the youngest librarian in the country today.

This youngest 'librarian' of the country has received the 'Thought Leaders' Award from NITI Aayog for awakening education.

muskan, a mere ten-year-old from the slum area of ​​Durga Nagar in Bhopal, is the youngest librarian in the country today.

This youngest 'librarian' of the country has received the 'Thought Leaders' Award from NITI Aayog for awakening education.

Parashar Srinu May 24, 2019 A mere ten-year-old Muskan of the slum area of ​​Durga Nagar in Bhopal is the youngest librarian in the country today. This youngest 'librarian' of the country has received the 'Thought Leaders' Award from NITI Aayog for awakening education. Doing the Different, Dynamic Youths, Featured, Motivational Stories, Success Story

A book is a word that contains the story of some person. It has a different place in every human's life. In the moment of challenge and difficulties, the invincible warrior Nelson Mandela, who used to keep a lot of poetry, read it repeatedly, its name is 'Invictus', which means unbeatable.

Smile has become the oldest 10-year-old librarian of Bhopal.

It is a poem published in 1875 of the Victorian era, written by the British poet William Ernest Henley. In our country too, the footsteps of the World Book Fair are heard every year, by writing books, many people have become immortal in world history. Durga Nagar lives in a slum area which is only 10 years old. Muskan herself studies in primary class but is running a library for children in a slum where there are thousands of books. She wants to become an IAS officer in future.

Muskan started its library in December 2015. After that when the officials of the State Education Center visited their slum, a quiz competition was organized to gather all the children there. Those days, when she was first in the third-class competition as a third-class student, the officials gifted her a set of 25 books. Since then she has been tuned to the children's library and even today, after returning from school, she handles the library where the poor slum children come to study. Muskan believes that, 'When you teach a boy, only one person reads but teaching a girl means that you are teaching the whole society.'

Muskan was the only daughter of the country and state to be selected among 240 people from all over the world.

Although 240 people from all over the world have been selected for this award, including Bhopal's Smile. The award is given in the form of a citation. The award was given to him by Olympic medalist Sakshi Malik. Muskan's library has books, stories, rhymes and stories of Panchatantra stories full of inspiring themes of freedom fighters.

Muskaan's mother Maya says that she talks about reading only at home, school and playground. The beginning of his day begins with books. Seeing her penchant for studies, the library has been built at home with the help of Text Book Corporation and State Education Center. Smile says- 'When she was nine years old in 2015, she was studying in third-fourth grade. During that time, when she used to see children walking around the house, she started thinking that these children continue to play or share their work with their parents, but why never study. Then he felt that when all the children study, why not it? They should also be read and written, then one day the officials of State Education Center visited our colony, Since that day, she is busy in the mission of books till date. She also teaches children younger than herself. feels good. Every day 30 to 35 children come here. The number increases in summer. Now in his library, Maulana Azad Bhaiya-Didi of National Institute of Technology comes and teaches children here. They also teach singing, dancing to children. People keep sending books to every corner of the country for their library.