SRELS Journal of Information Management

  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue: 2

Reading habit amongst people in rural and urban areas of Bangalore district -A comparative analysis

  • Author:
  • D. Kala1, Shanta S. Betageri2, Chandrappa 3
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 239 to 248

1Librarian, Ganga International School, Nagaraja Farm, Near Gruhalakshmi Layour, Nelagadaranahalli, Nagasandra Post, Bangalore560 073, INDIA.

2Assistant Librarian, Regional Campus Library, KVAFS University, Bangalore, INDIA.

3Director, CIRD Business School, Bangalore, INDIA. E-mail: chandrappas@yahoo.com

Abstract

Poor reading habits cause low national education quality, which in turn results in lower human resources quality. One of the most imperative suggestions for promotion of learning is to develop reading habits amongst students. They help the students in mastering the content of learning. Hence efforts should be made to develop reading habits of students after due planning. How do you motivate the students to read and what are the strategies which will enhance the reading habits amongst students is the basic idea of this paper.

Keywords

Reading habit, Rural areas, Urban areas