Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Interacts with PM-YUVA 3.0 Authors 

New Delhi: - Dharmendra Pradhan  Minister of Education, had an interactive session with the selected 43 authors of PM YUVA 3.0 at Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya. The selected authors provided a brief overview about the subjects of their manuscripts for their upcoming books, under the mentorship scheme. The Hon'ble Minister congratulated the selected authors and encouraged them to make full use of the 6-month mentorship scheme and produce books that would inspire the youth of India to read and write. He suggested that the access to research materials both physical and digital should be facilitated by NBT and directed selected authors should have access to the materials under the 'One Nation-One Subscription' (ONOS) initiative. 
He further directed that the authors may be attached to the central universities of their area to provide institutional support for research and development of their manuscripts. On this occasion, Shri Vineet Joshi, Secretary, Higher Education, Shri Yuvraj Malik, Director, NBT-India, Dr Priyanka Mishra, CEO, Pradhanmantri Sanghralaya, Shri Kumar Vikram, Chief Editor & Joint Director, NBT-India and Shri Ravi K Mishra, Joint Director, Pradhanmantri Sanghralaya were present. The selected 43 authors under PM YUVA 3.0 scheme are participating in the national camp organised on the occasion of the ongoing New Delhi World Book Fair 2026 (10-18 January) at Bharat Mandapam by the Ministry of Education with National Book Trust, India as the implementing agency. The New Delhi World Book Fair was inaugurated on January 10 by the Hon'ble Minister of Education.