nagpur aiming to promote reading habit among children vidarbha sahitya sangh vss organized storytelling programmes at hardas high school north ambazari road and somalwar school ramdaspeth at 730am on saturday students must examine the changes in their lives they should retain the things important in their lives and discard other things said revati joshi while narrating the story lavu zaad at the event the story was a part of indian folk tales the tales highlighted the importance of reading and leading a balanced life this is an effort to instil the seed of love for literature in the students mind said vss director arundhati vaidya the main purpose of holding these story telling venture is to make the students understand the value of reading and writing books they can become good authors and poets in future vaidya added the students from both the schools welcomed the programme with enthusiasm and enjoyed it the next story will be presented on july 8 at new english school congress nagara plantation drive was also held at the schools class 10 toppers planted trees and talked on the importance of conserving nature as many as 100 books were also gifted to the schools libraries under shataki granth bhet schemeprakash edlabadkar abhishek waghmare and manjusha joshi were also present