Reading leisure books among youth in the North eastern region recorded a higher 43 per cent as against the national average of 25 per cent. Releasing the follow up report of National Youth Readership Survey in New Delhi, Human Resource Development Minister M. M Pallam Raju said, it was heartening to learn that despite economic backwardness in infrastructure and difficult terrain, the North east youth read more than rest of the country.

The Report brought out by the National Book Trust in association with National Council of Applied Economic Research also revealed that one-fourth (25 per cent) of the literate youth, at the all India level, read books other than text books. It also said, the North eastern region has the highest propotion of literate youth in rural areas, while in rest of india the concentration of literate youth is in urban areas.