Imperial Record Department records custodian of permanent value, as the National Archives of India in Calcutta on March 11, 1891 is established. South Asia is the biggest archival repository. The scholars / administrators and archives constitute an invaluable source of information for other users, public records, private papers, oriental records, cartographic records and microfilm, that is a huge amount of records. Government and UTs also Ministries / Departments / PSUs in the Public Records Act 1993 and Public Law, 1997 is the nodal agency for implementation. Currently, it serves as an attached office of the Ministry of Culture and Bhubaneshwar, Jaipur and Bhopal in Puducherry and three records centers have a regional office.
General information about the record holdings
Records in the National Archives holdings 40 linear kilometers run. As well as the first period are recorded vagrant, though shelf space area and then a series regular in the years from 1748. The English, Arabic, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit, Modi, Urdu, etc. are. Public records, Oriental Records, cartographic records, manuscripts and personal letters on paper records in addition, we also palm leaf, birch bark, etc. is recorded on the records roughly five categories. These records later Mughals, the British East India Company and India's emergence in the freedom struggle and development activities highlight. He also our social, political, economic and cultural life valuable highlighted. In addition, a rich collection of private letters and in India, such total holding Canada, Germany, Malaysia, Myanmar, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Russia acquired from individual countries as related to There is more than 7500 rolls of microfilm records in the custody of the National Archives include: 3,875,332 Files, 64 221 volumes, 110 332 maps and cartographic items, India's President (s), 1,065 treaties, from 2442 to rare manuscripts Bills assented to 3601.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Introduction Papers
Declassify government files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and had decided to make them accessible to the public. He is at his residence in New Delhi, Netaji's family members during a meeting with a delegation of the Prime Minister of India on 14 October 2015 was announced. Is unclassified, the first batch of the 33 files, the Home Office, the Foreign Office and was transferred from Netaji after December 4, 2015 on the public files of the National Archives of India, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), was handed over by the Prime Minister's Office Some more files. As a first step, Netaji 100 digital copies of files to use these files long-standing demand of the public will be released in the public domain. It is also to carry out further research on Bose will feature scholars. Every month in the National Archives in the public sector 25 unclassified files on Netaji planned to release digital copies.