ment-financed autonomous bodies situated in the Capital. Reference services and consultation facilities were also provided to scholars and research workers from various universities and other institutions from all parts of the country. During the period volumes were added to the library; their language-wise break-up being:
1. Assamese 16
2. Bengali 41
3. English 3292
4. Gujarati 55
5. Hindi 468
6. Kannada 52
7. Malayalam 8
8. Marathi 67
9. Oriya 25
10. Punjabi 174
11. Tamil 43
12. Telugu 26
13. Urdu 85
14. Sindhi 221
15. Sanskrit 35
4608
About 1000 periodicals and 2500 government publications were received during the period under report. The total membership, of the library registered the figure of 7500, including 3089 new members enrolled during the period.
13.24. The Library expanded its documentation activities and a new half-yearly periodicals "Youth Services Abstracts" was brought out. This contains abstracts on youth and their problems out of various journals received in the Library. "Indian Education Abstracts" and "Current Education Literature" which
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are respectively going through the 15th and 12th year of their publication were brought out regularly.
13.25. The Students' Information Services Unit attended to about 6500 enquiries regarding facilities of different courses of study and educational facilities in India and abroad. This unit also supplied the students' advisory bureaux, employment information and guidance bureaux attached to various universities with the latest informative material on educational courses in India and abroad. "Educational Facilities in India and Abroad", a quarterly mimeographed publication, continued to be brought out. The material on courses of study in India and abroad was collected and compiled for the use of students who visit the library for such information. The Sixth National Seminar of the Representatives of Students' Advisory Bureaux was held on February 2-7, 1971 at Jaipur. It was attended by a large number of students' representatives from various universities and educationists of India.
C: FINANCIAL ALLOCATIONS. 13.26. The financial allocations for the various schemes des- cribed in this chapter during 1970-71 and 1971-72 are as below:
(Rs. in 000's)
S.No. Item Provision for Budget
1970-71 Estimates
1971-72
Original Revised
1 2 3 4 5
1. National Board of Adult Edu-
cation 15 10 15
2. Farmers' Training and Func-
tional Literacy Project 2,696 2,696 4,000
3. Assistance to voluntary Orga-
nisations working in the field of
Adult Education 800 800 2,500
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1 2 3 4 5
4. Worker's Social Education Ins-
titutes 196 194 200
5. Prize Competition of Books for
Neo-literates 183 180 150
6. Directorate of Adult Education 1 1 205
7. National Library, Calcutta 3,920 3,338 3,821
8. Central Reference Library, Calcutta 370 369 457
9. Central Library, Bombay 200 98 200
10. Raza Library, Rampur 25 .. 50
11. Delhi Public Library, Delhi 1,704 1,664 2,222
12. T.M.S.S. Mahal Library, Than-
javur 165 .. 200
13. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public
Library, Patna 140 140 150
14. Grants to Public Libraries 500 300 300