The late former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s family officially handed over his documents and signed an agreement with the National Archives of India on 28 April.
The National Archives of India is harnessing traditional knowledge and community records, director general Arun Singhal said at the South and West Asian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives meeting in Delhi.
This includes original correspondences between Kidwai and other eminent leaders of India, including Pt. Nehru, Sardar Patel, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, and P.D. Tandon.
A part of Modi govt's Central Vista project, Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum will open in three months. But work on moving the artefacts at the National Museum has not yet begun.
Many ministries have lagged for decades in sending records to National Archives of India, according to its director-general Chandan Sinha. The losers are scholars and public alike.
It is the records kept in places such as the National Archives that are referred to when the government’s version is at cross purposes with the people’s history.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Rameshwaram in TAMIL NADU NOT Andhra Pradesh