New Delhi, July 29 (UNI) The National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) has digitised 283 lakh pages of 2.96 lakh manuscripts , Ministry sources said.
The sources said that the ministry has so far documented 43.16 lakh manuscripts and conserved 434.56 lakh folios of manuscripts.
It has also published 44 rare and unpublished manuscripts.
The sources said that the manuscripts documented and digitised by the NMM would be made available to researchers and scholars through a trusted digital repository.
According to Ministry sources, since its inception in 2003 to March 31, 2018, the Ministry of Culture had released Rs 9,666 lakhs out of which Rs 9,544 lakhs were spent on it.
Sources said that the ultimate object of the mission was to establish a digital manuscripts repository at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in which researchers and scholars could view and consult the manuscripts to understand the past in its totality, they said.
The NMM, a mission mode project, was launched by the Culture Ministry for documentation, conservation, preservation and digitisation of manuscripts.
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