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The salient features of the Act, in brief

  1. Establishment of a separate Department of libraries for planning, maintenance, organization and development of Public Libraries in the State;
  2. Establishment of the State Central Library for the whole State and Divisional Library in each division, financed and managed by the Government;
  3. Establishment of the State Library Council to advise Government on all matters related to the Library development;
  4. Establishment  of District Library Committee for each district for advising Govt. on all matters concerned with the public libraries in the district;
  5. Government is responsible for providing an amount of not less than Rs. 25 lakhs every year for the development of public libraries. The administrative expenditure is in addition to the above amount;
  6. There is no provision of library cess in the Act.