LAHORE (Saturday, March 14): Punjab University administration will organize book fair 2009 and April 2-4 has been declared tentative date for this year's book fair. Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that PU is organizing the book fair to promote book reading habits among students as well as other segments of the society. He said that knowledge is real power of a nation and PU book fair would help promote reading habits and acquiring knowledge from books among students and book lovers. He said that PU teachers and merit students from all departments, colleges and institutes of the varsity would help the administration to organize this book fair. The vice-chancellor said that the committees set up for the organization of book fair last year would help organize this year's book fair also. Applications for the reservation of stalls from publishers and booksellers would be invited soon. It is noteworthy that PU administration has decided to organize this year's book fair in April instead of May due to scorching heat and other weather related problems in the month of May.