marathi granth sangrahalaya mgs is the first full fledged marathi library in the nation that has the tradition of over a century and its recognized as pride of thane city vinayak laxman bhave writer of maharashtra saraswat a thane resident started mgs at his residence on 1st june 1883 then shifted in a tin shade and in 1962 mgs could get its own premises before mgs native libraries were introduced by lord elphinston but in that library most of the books were in english and it was working for the english in this sense mgs has been the first indian library that carried books in indian languages in the last 116 years the library blossomed in every direction hence a mgs branch was opened at naupada thane to accommodate more books and provide other facilities to the readers working committee planned ambitious project and on 2nd january 2010 their dream came true and mgs was shifted in its new buildings with all update facilities for the readers in a luminous ceremony vidyavachaspati shankar abhyankar inaugurated both mgs premises that was followed by a grand inauguration ceremony at gadkari rangayatan in which abyankar released souvenir and also opened the mgs website dignitaries including pkdatar president mgs rashtravadi leader vasant dawakhare mp jitendra avhad mayor ashok vaity dr harikant bhanushali dksoman vasanti vartak and others renowned poet pro shakar vaidya presided over the event in his speech abhyankar said books have the mighty strength of shaping human beings maharashtra has long tradition of libraries and in real sense the movement of libraries started from nasik over the period many valuable volumes are distinguished and we must preserve the treasure with care in modern libraries we find more nonfictional literature than fictional literature non fictional books like dnyaneshwari dasbodh provide peace and fictional literature makes the reader uneasy both types of books are essential for a balanced personality and readers should read both types abhyankar also suggested starting a new division for youths books on it and other technical books should be easily available for them its reading that initiates a person to think it also enhances ones knowledge and develops taste for a classic hence reading is essential for personality development in fact libraries are like treasures of knowledge and update libraries are the sign of development i feel sad about the deceding habit of reading among the youngsters asserted vaidya the library opened with 172 subscribers and today the number has reached to 3406 and the numbers of books in the library are one lakh fifteen thousand in 1896 the reference section started working and many rare books old manuscripts and issues of old magazines like induprakash are available for research scholars books on various subjects like novels travelogues history essay drama poetry mathematics medicine religion language grammar fine arts astrology mythological and spiritual volumes are available here in muktadwar vachanalaya one can read newspapers and magazines freely in the new premises book transactions and free reading room will be on