Source: PIB
Context: The National Mission for Manuscripts in India aims to document, conserve, digitize, and disseminate the country’s manuscript heritage.
- To achieve this, over 100 Manuscripts Resource Centres and Manuscripts Conservation Centres have been established nationwide.
Key achievements of the mission include:
- Documenting approximately 5.2 million manuscripts.
- Conserving 90 million folios of manuscripts.
- Digitizing 350,000 manuscripts, comprising 35 million pages.
- Conducting over 100 conservation workshops.
- Uploading around 140,000 manuscripts on its web portal, with 75,000 available for free public access.
- Publishing over 100 books since its inception.
Establishment of the National Mission of Manuscripts (NMM) was aimed at safeguarding India’s extensive repository of manuscripts. The NMM an autonomous body was established in 2003 by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
