16th Delhi Book Fair began today. The theme of this year is ‘Books for Rural India’. Jointly organised by the India Trade Promotion Organisation -ITPO and the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP), the fair was inaugurated by Dr. Suvas Pani Chairman and managing Director, ITPO. Fair has attracted over 250 participants from India and abroad. Speaking to our correspondent on the inaugural day, Dr. Suvas Pani said that the Indian book market is truly vibrant. He said a number of seminars, book launches, and panel discussions will also be organised during the fair which will conclude on 2nd of next month. He said that with over 16,000 publishers and 30,000 bookshops besides multi-national publishing companies who, along with Indian publishers, bring out around 70,000 titles per annum. Hindi records highest number of titles published every year, while 30 percent of all books are published in English. Other major books are published in Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, and rest in the other 16 official languages.