Despite accessible , books fail to find place among youngsters

Despite being easily accessible both in market as well as on internet, books have failed to hold the interest of youngsters who mostly prefer to remain hooked television or any other social network like facebook or twiter etc. as per records nearly 15 percent  of sales of book’s decline every year in the valley.

Unlike the western society where books are considered as the main source of information and knowledge, the youngsters in our society are losing their reading habit by every passing day. the expert cite the advent of a new technology main reason behind it. “it is the craze of  youngsters for the cricket, television, chatting , mobile games that youngsters are unable to develop their reading habits. They get expose to these technologies in early age of their lives influencing their minds deeply “  said  Feroz  Ahmad , A Sociologist.

  Vex by the lessen interest in reading among youngsters , from the very beginning the government  has open libraries at several places which remain flooded with all types of books every time but this move does not bring much change. “Books are available to us in a good quantity but readership here is very less. There is an immediate need to generate interest among the youngsters by telling them the advantages of reading so that readership may increase in future” said  a Librarian ,Tariq Bhat.

Some believe that it depends largely on parents to inaccurate among children the sense of reading. “I think It depend more on the atmosphere at their homes.  children usually trend to follow their parents. If parents have a habit of reading news paper, magazines, books than children get to read on their own” Abdul Aziz , 70, a retire police officer said.

He added, reading is really essential for a personal development as well as for the socio-economic development of state. We need to take step to develop the reading habits among the children so as they may prove better citizens. 

Experts too predict that children need to develop this habit gradually.  “Teenagers and children are not patient readers they find it really difficult to adjust themselves to books in their early age. They need to develop it gradually by sticking to news papers initially and later turn to comic stories and then to the short stories in a different phases” said Basher Ahmad, an Academician