RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) is going to revive a street library along Rialto Bridge on Murree Road as Rawal Forest Library.

After theft of books from the shelves of the street library in Miyawaki forest , the RDA had temporarily closed the library in 2023.

In 2021, the civic authority had established the street library, first of its 1(ind in Rawalpindi city, with the help of a social welfare organisation with seatingarrangements for the visitors.

The visitors can sit on the benches outside the Miyawaki urban forest hav-ing 8,000 plants of52 different species and enjoy reading at the lush green patch recently developed by the civic authority.

According to the RDA official, the purpose of establishing the street library was to encourage book readingand provide the community members an opportunity to meet, connect and socialise, besides enlivening and activating public spaces. `The commuters and people passing by are welcome to stop and browse an ever-changing selection of bool(s including history textbooks, biographies, travel guides, and poetry,` he saidO. Staff Reporter