Recognition of public libraries

The Director may, in accordance with the rules and subject to any general or special orders of the State Government made in this behalf, recognise any library run by the voluntary agencies registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 or under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 or under the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961 or any library run by local authority, open for use to the public, as a public library for the purpose of payment of grant-in-aid or other financial assistance to it.