Abhilekh Patal Portal

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Recently, the Prime Minister of India urged citizens to explore the ‘Abhilekh Patal’ portal for a deeper understanding of India’s historical legacy.

About Abhilekh Patal Portal

• It is a full-featured web-portal to access the National Archives of India’s reference media and its digitized collections through the internet.
• It is a digital repository thoughtfully curated by the National Archives of India (NAI).
• It has a mission to provide easy access to India’s historical archives, comprising an astounding 7 million records.
• Purpose: Its purpose is to ensure the effortless accessibility of historical records, reaching across geographical borders to engage a diverse global community.
• The archival collections available through the Abhilekh Patal portal cover a wide range of historical records preserved by the National Archives of India. These include:
  • Public records transferred from various Ministries and Departments of the Government of India
  • Private papers of eminent personalities
  • Archival reference media such as photographs, maps, microfilms and rare documents
  • Digitised historical government files and archival collections maintained by NAI

Key Facts about the National Archives of India

• It was established on 11 March 1891 at Calcutta (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department, it is the biggest archival repository in South Asia.
• It is the repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of record creators and general users.
• It has a vast corpus of records viz., public records, private papers, oriental records, cartographic records and microfilms, which constitute an invaluable source of information for scholars-administrators and users of archives.
• Head office: New Delhi
• It has one Regional Office in Bhopal and three Records Centres at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.
• Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

Source: DD News

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