New Delhi World Book Fair 2025: NDWBF Pragati Maidan, Delhi

Event Name: New Delhi World Book Fair
Category: Education & Job Fairs
Event Date: 01 – 09 February, 2025
Frequency: Annual
Location: Hall 2 – 6, Pragati Maidan (Bharat Mandapam), Mathura Road, Railway Colony, New Delhi 110002 India
Organizer: India Trade Promotion Organisation & National Book Trust – Nehru Bhawan, 5, Institutional Area, Phase II, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070 India
Email ID: nbtexhibition[at]gmail.com
Phone: 91-11-26707780 / 81
Nearest Metro Station: Pragati Maidan on the Blue Line
Timings: 11:00 AM to 20:00 PM

New Delhi World Book Fair 2025: 52nd Edition

The New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), being held for the past 51 years, is a major calendar event in the publishing world. NDWBF 2025 is scheduled to be held from 1st to 9th February 2025 in newly constructed Halls 2-6 (Ground Floor) at the Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. The Fair is organized by National Book Trust, India (under the Ministry of Education, Government of India). ITPO (under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce) is the co-organiser/venue partner of the fair.

The fair is organized in association with Federation of Indian Publishers. Book Fairs have a great role to play in promoting the reading habit among people of all age groups. New Delhi World Book Fair is playing a pivotal role in reiterating the might of the pen and the printed world and has come to be recognized as the biggest book bonanza keenly awaited by students, teachers, scholars, authors, intellectuals, librarians and book lovers. Apart from promoting literacy and reading habit, especially among children and youth, the fair presents a vast panorama of Indian books on a wide range of subject. The fair provides a unique platform for business to business transactions, establishing new contacts, entering into co-publishing arrangements, translation and copy right arrangements, reprinting of old and rare books, apart from providing retailing opportunities as a multitude of visitors to the fair. A number of Conferences and Seminars, buyer-seller meets, book releases, book discussions, literary activities for children and meet-the-author will be organized during the Fair.

The fair is also complemented by the Stationery / Office Automation and Corporate Gifts Fair held concurrently with its product profile.

ITPO is pleased to invite you to participate in the 52nd New Delhi Book Fair 2025

New Delhi World Book Fair 20245 is a 9 day event being held from 1 – 9 February, 2025 at the Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India. This event is certainly worth considering for the book promotion etc. in the Consumer & Carnivals industry.

New Delhi World Book Fair: Event Profile

New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) held for the past 51 years, is now a major calendar event in the publishing world. NDWBF 2025 will be held from 1 – 9 February, 2025 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

The Fair is organized by National Book Trust, India, an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, working towards promotion of books and the habit of reading in the country.

India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), under the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India is the Co-organizer of the Fair.

Today Indian publishing stands poised at a significant crossroad towards the path of growth. NDWBF offers the participants a unique opportunity of doing business with this growing book industry. It is also an ideal venue for promoting titles, co-publication arrangements and trade. Besides the many literary and publishing conferences and programmes to be organized during the Fair, it also opens up a gateway to the publishing and intellectual world of South Asia. The Fair attracts participation from major publishing houses of the globe.

New Delhi World Book Fair: Organizer Profile

National Book Trust

The National Book Trust (NBT), India, is an apex body established by the Government of India (Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development) in the year 1957 to develop reading habits and creation of book culture in the country. To achieve its objectives, Trust is publishing good quality books at reasonable price, organizing Book Fairs and Exhibitions in all parts of the country to provide an opportunity for interaction among authors, publishers, librarians and book lovers.

Publishing forms a major activity of the Trust. It publishes a wide variety of reasonably priced quality books ranging from works of fiction to books on Medical Sciences and cutting edge technology for all segments of the society and for all age groups, including a wide variety of illustrated books for children. Over the years, the Trust’s determined efforts in developing a strong and inclusive policy towards publishing is also apparent in the variety of books published for visually handicapped and the neo-literates.

The Trust publishes books in 18 major Indian languages, which includes Asamiya, Bangla, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Manipuri, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Odiya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. In addition to this, the Trust has also published books in Bhojpuri, Himachali, Kokborok, Khasi, Garo, Lepcha, Bhutia, Mising Limboo, Mizo, Newari, Bodo, among others.

The Trust organises book fairs / exhibitions throughout the country at regional, national and international levels. NBT has so far organised 21 World Book Fairs, 38 National Book Fairs and around 220 Regional Books Fairs. The Trust has been trying to make the books available to the people at their doorsteps through mobile exhibitions. So far it has organised more than 11,000 mobile exhibitions throughout the country including the North-eastern states. During the period under report, the Trust organised mobile book exhibitions at about 1662 places in and around Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Assam, Rajasthan, Goa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Tripura.

In order to promote Indian publishing abroad, the Trust participates in various International books fairs by displaying a cross section of representative Indian publications brought out by various Indian publishers.