National Book Trust, India (NBT) is an apex body founded in 1957 as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. NBT now functions under aegis of Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India.
The activities of the trust include publishing, to make such literature available at moderate prices to the public, arrange book fairs/exhibitions and seminars, promotion of books and reading, promotion of Indian books abroad, assistance to authors and publishers, and promotion of children’s literature. NBT publishes reading material in several Indian languages for all age-groups, including books for children and neo-literates and take all necessary steps to make the people book minded.
The NBT publishes general books which include works of fiction, books on social sciences, medical science and cutting-edge technology for all segments of society and for all age-groups. The NBT also publishes a wide variety of books for children and post -literacy reading material for new-literates. Moderately priced, NBT publishes books under different series in English and in all major Indian languages of India.
NBT pays special attention to those genres which are not adequately covered by other publishers. These relate to books on science &technology, environment, the land and people of India, designed especially for the general reader as well as books in Braille.
We have the privilege of officially organizing and conducting District Level Book Exhibition of National Book Trust for Nashik district. Dnyanjagar is authorized book sellers for NBT and these books are available with us for sale.