Shillong, Sept. 23 -- The auto book sanitizing composite machine, a novel device and a marvel invention, first of its kind was unveiled and inaugurated on at the Central Library of the North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) here in Meghalaya on Wednesday by Prof. S.K. Srivastava, Vice Chancellor of the University.

Acknowledging the talent and hard work put in by the NEHU team in bringing out this innovative product for the University library, Prof. Srivastava lauded this timely intervention of the indigenous technology to generate safety measures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic for a societal benefit at large.

He quoted the development of such a sanitizing machine as a "fantastic fusion of library", a place to provide knowledge and the ...