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26/10/24 10:04 AM IST

Government seeks to relaunch National Manuscript Mission

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  • The Union Ministry of Culture is set to “revive and relaunch” the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) and is mulling the formation of an autonomous body to help preserve ancient texts in India.
About NMM
  • Presently, NMM is a part of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts.
  • The new body, likely to be named the National Manuscripts Authority, will be an autonomous entity under the Ministry.
  • The National Mission for Manuscripts was established in 2003, by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India.
  • The key objectives of the National Mission for Manuscripts are documentation, conservation, digitization, and online dissemination of the manuscript heritage of India. 
  • To achieve this mandate, the mission has established more than 100 Manuscripts Resource Centres and Manuscripts Conservation Centres all over India.
  • India possesses an estimated ten million manuscripts, probably the largest collection in the world. These cover a variety of themes, textures and aesthetics, scripts, languages, calligraphies, illuminations, and illustrations.
Manuscript
  • A manuscript is a handwritten composition on paper, bark, cloth, metal, palm leaf, or any other material dating back at least seventy-five years that has significant scientific, historical, or aesthetic value.
  • Manuscripts differ from historical records like epigraphs, firmans, and revenue records, as they primarily contain knowledge content rather than direct historical information.
  • Manuscripts are found in hundreds of different languages and scripts. 
Source- The Hindu

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