thiruvananthapuram chemmaruthi panchayat is going digital with an egovernance system and digital library for students and readers the four decade old library at chemmaruthi panchayat got a digital upgrade on saturday the states first digital library in a local self government institution was inaugurated by v joy mla at thokkad cultural centre on saturday the project has been completed at a cost of rs 12 lakhs panchayat president a h salim said that the digital library is mainly going to benefit many job aspirants and students in the local body there are so many students and job aspirants hailing from poor background who are not able to access online journals and books for their studies the digital library has got a wide range of books previous years question papers practice sets which can be accessed by students and people free of cost often some people would take books from library and never returned it and those who really needed it had to wait for too long now digital library will ensure equal access to everyone said a h salim chemmaruthy is the first panchayat in the state to have a digital library thousands of books from literature science and textbooks for professional courses have been digitized in the library eight computers have been set up in the library time slots would be fixed for usage of digital library a h salim said that the panchayat has already completed trial run of egovernance system by which public can avail services from panchayat online the trial run was successfully completed in three months the egovernance system will be officially launched on monday