• Started in: 2003 (during 10th Five Year Plan)
  • Nodal Agency: Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts
  • Ministry concerned: Ministry of Culture

Objectives:

  • To document every manuscript and manuscript collection
  • To preserve manuscripts using modern and indigenous methods and train a new generation of manuscript conservators
  • To critically edit and catalogue various aspects of manuscript studies such as language, scripts and texts To promote access to manuscripts by digitising the rarest and endangered manuscripts
  • To promote access to manuscripts through publication of critical editions of unpublished manuscripts and catalogues