Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s 8th batch of 25 declassified files was
made available online on web portal on Friday by the Ministry of
Culture. The present batch of 25 files pertains to Ministry of External
Affairs inclusive years 1951-2006.
It may be recalled that first lot of
100 files relating to Netaji, after their preliminary conservation
treatment and digitization, were put in the public domain. In all, 275
files belonging to the central Government have been put in the public
domain in the official portal.
The present release of 25 files will
further meet the continued public demand to access these files and this
will also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on the doyen
of the freedom movement.
These files having passed the scrutiny of
the specially constituted Committee having experts from the field of
Archives which looks into the aspects such as:
- To ascertain the physical conditions of the files and carry out necessary repair and conservation wherever needed, through Conservation Unit.
- To verify the quality of digitization for enabling the digitized records to upload in the web portal ‘www.netajipapers.gov.in’.
- To check if there is any duplication in the files those are being released on the internet for use by the researchers and general public.
It may be reiterated that in 1997, the
National Archives of India had received 990 declassified files
pertaining to the Indian National Army from the Ministry of Defence.
Further, in 2012, 271 files pertaining the Khosla Commission, and 759
files of Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry, in total 1030 files
were received from the Ministry of Home Affairs. All these files are
already open to the public under the Public Records Rules, 1997.
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