The second batch of fifty declassified files relating to Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose will be released online on web portal
www.netajipapers.gov.in by Dr. Mahesh Sharma, the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (I/C) and Civil Aviation on March 29, 2016 at 3:30 PM.
The
present batch of 50 files consists of 10 files from the Prime
Minister's Office (PMO), 10 files from Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA),
and 30 files from Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) pertaining to the
period 1956 to 2009.
It may be recalled that first lot of 100
files relating to Netaji, after their preliminary conservation treatment
and digitization, was put in the public domain by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 23, 2016, on the occasion of the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji.
The
present release of 50 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
many files, having passed the scrutiny of the specially constituted
Committee having experts from the field of Archives, are being released
on the internet for use by researchers and general public. The Committee
looks into aspects such as:
1. To ascertain the physical
condition of the files and carry out necessary repair and conservation
wherever needed, through Conservation Unit.
2. To verify the quality of digitization for enabling the digitized records to upload in the web portal www.netajipapers.gov.in.
3. To check if there are any duplication in the files.
It
may further be added that in 1997 the National Archives of India had
received 990 declassified files pertaining to the Indian National Army
(Azad Hind Fauj) from the Ministry of Defence, and in 2012, 1030
files/items pertaining the Khosla Commission (271 files/items) and
Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (759 files/items) from the
Ministry of Home Affairs. All these files/items are already open to the
public under the Public Records Rules, 1997.
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