India News | MCD Plans to Install Solar Panels on Rooftop of Historic Hardayal Library

New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) The municipal corporation has planned to install solar panels on rooftop of the historic Hardayal library in Delhi, officials said on Wednesday.

The over 160-year-old library in Delhi's Chandni Chowk area is housed in a heritage building.

Also Read | Bengaluru Water Cut News Update: City Braces for 24-Hour Supply Disruption on February 27 and 28; Check Timing, Areas and Other Details.

It was christened as Hardinge library in 1916 and boasts of a rich collection of books in Hindi, English, Urdu, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit.

A meeting of the library's managing committee was held on Tuesday, a senior official said.

Also Read | Indian Government Planning To Have Three to Four Semiconductor Fabrication Plants in Next Five Years, Says Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Among the agenda was a plan to install solar panels on the rooftop of the historic Hardayal Municipal Public Library, he said.

The official said that a decision was taken in the meeting to install the solar panels.

It was also discussed that efforts will be made to reinstate a group of old employees of the library who were earlier "removed" before the new management took office last year.

On October 30 last year, the officials had said that a new managing committee has been formed for the Hardayal library here with Councillor Preeti getting elected as its secretary.

The Delhi mayor is the ex-officio chairperson of this library.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had recently said that five months' pending salaries of 96 employees of the Hardayal library had been released, adding that there was now an "honest government" in the municipal corporation that works for commoners.

The released salaries in lump sum pertained to the five months of 2021, according to an official statement.

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)