National Reading Day: 19 June

National Reading Day: 19 June

• The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) celebrates National Reading Day annually on 19 June.
• The Day is celebrated to honour the father of the ‘Library Movement in Kerala’, the late P.N. Panicker, whose death anniversary falls on June 19.
• In 2021, 26th National Reading Day is being celebrated.
• The week following June 19 will be observed as Reading Week and the entire month till July 18 will be observed as  Reading Month.
• The first Reading Day celebration was held in 1996.
• On June 19, 2017, Prime Minister launched the 22nd National Reading Month Celebrations
  and called for unity to spread the message of ‘Read and Grow’ among all the citizens of the
  country by 2022.