Pune | December 14, 2025: With the Pune Book Festival receiving an overwhelming response year after year, Maharashtra’s Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil announced that efforts are underway to establish Pune as the global capital of books, with plans to organise the festival as a World Book Festival from next year.

Patil was speaking at the inauguration of the third Pune Book Festival, organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) at Fergusson College, where the festival is being held from December 13 to 21. The event was attended by Union Minister of State for Cooperation Murlidhar Mohol, Savitribai Phule Pune University Vice-Chancellor Dr Suresh Gosavi, 99th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan president and author Vishwas Patil, NBT Chairman Milind Marathe, Pun

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