Historical Places Post # 2
The Central Library at Bahawalpur, commissioned by the Nawab of Bahawalpur.
The Building of the Central Library of Bahawalpur was at the start Commencement by the previous Nawab of Bahawalpur His Highness governor Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan v (Late) at the celebration of his crowning because the Nawab of Bahawalpur with Sir Rolfs Daniel Ishaq Vice Rae of Asian nation on eighth of March 1934.
For the development of the building the individuals of the previous state of Bahawalpur power-assisted less or a lot of one animal product rupees. The cash was provided formally in installments by the govt workers within the kind of their one month wage. The world for the building of the library, just about eighty eight canals ten Marla’s was provided by his Highness. The development of the building started from 1927 and was sadly not completed in seven years due to the shortage of funds.
Due to this not solely the development of the building was delayed however The Custody of the building was given to the Department of Municipality Bahawalpur. Municipality Bahawalpur completed the building in just thirty 5 thousand rupees created it their workplace and found out a little library.
A few months back before the independence of West Pakistan governor Mushtaq Ahmed Germani was the Prime Minister of the previous state of Bahawalpur. He felt severe lack of a decent library in Bahawalpur and determined to require the building, piece of furniture and books underneath official custody from the Department of Municipality Bahawalpur.
Main Enterance of Central Library Bahawalpur
He determined to rename it from Sadiq reading library to Central library Bahawalpur and a lot of that it'll be altogether central. there'll little libraries in alternative little and large cities of Bahawalpur under the administration of this central library Bahawalpur. Consequently the govt of Bahawalpur determined to line up the Central library on the second floor of the building 1947 and commenced to tolerate the expenditures of the library when a protracted argue.
From 1947 to 1958 library worked on the second floor of the building however in 1956 the gathering of the books of the library exceeded the limit of storage on the second floor of the building thus this matter was given within the notice of the officers as a result of all of the building was created for the library. That the building ought to be dedicated for library functions. Municipality Bahawalpur wasn't able to leave the building.
At last when the struggle of six years owing to the eye and Cooperation of Syed Hashim Raza Commissioner of Bahawalpur Municipality left the building for the library in 1958. when the contiguousness of the previous State of Bahawalpur with West Pakistan in 1955 this library is functioning fine underneath the administration of the Provincial Government.
Interior of the Library:-
Today the Central library of consists of 3 lovely and sensible trying buildings. In these buildings there square measure 3 main sections of the library containing a main hall, girls and youngsters section and therefore the third one is that the newspapers section. Besides that there's associate degree Ab section for non books stuff. the gathering of the books is over one animal product during this library and record of newspapers is on the market from, before the independence of West Pakistan to these days. Over twelve thousand members square measure gaining like this library.
