Today is the National Reading Day. The day is celebrated in honour of&nbsp; P N Panicker, considered the Father of Kerala's Library and Literacy Movement. It also marks the beginning of the month-long Digital Reading celebrations. Started as a Reading Day celebration on June 19, 1996, by the Government of Kerala in association with the P N Panicker Foundation, National Reading Day, became a mass movement to promote literacy and the culture of reading in the state.<br />”<br />”In 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Reading / Digital Reading Month in Kochi and gave a clarion call to the country's citizens to propagate the message, Read and Grow.<br />”<br />”<span style="color: #222222;">Several programmes are envisaged for the month-long celebrations by the union and state governments, NITI Ayog, National Digital Library of India in association with the PN Panicker Foundation and various other stakeholders.</span><br />