The 6^th edition of New Town Book Fair 2019 was inaugurated in the presence of Shri Firhad Hakim, Honourable Mayor of Kolkata and Honourable MIC, Urban Development, Government of West Bengal, Shri Sujit Bose, Minister of Fire and Emergency Services (Independent Charge) & Forest, Government of West Bengal, Shri Debasis Sen, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal, IT Department, Government of West Bengal & Chairman, WBHIDCO, Jogen Chowdhury, Joy Goswami, Pankaj Saha, Subodh Sarkar and Nalini Bera.

The idea of organizing New Town Book Fair was conceived back in 2014 and now is in its sixth year. The prime attraction of the Book Fair is the National Poetry Festival which is conducted in association with Sahitya Akademi. This year the New Town Book Fair will also host the Kolkata Youth Lit Meet for two days, 4^th and 5^th January 2020.

The Book Fair is going to host seventy book stalls and renowned publishers like Anondo Publishers, Woodpecker, Parul Prakashani and Evolve will participate in the fair.

“200 years of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar” will be the theme for 2019. The 6^th edition of the New Town Book Fair will also host a music competition along with the recitation competition. There will be seminars conducted at the book fair on interesting topics such as “Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and his life’s journey” and “Hundred years of Manna Dey and Hemanta Mukhopadhyay”.

New Town Book Fair will continue till 5^th January, 2020. The gates will open every day at 1 p.m. and will close at 8 p.m. and on holidays the gates will open at 12 p.m. and close at 9 p.m.