National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM)
- January 7, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM)
Subject – History
Context – Digitisation of manuscripts picks up
Concept –
- The National Mission of Manuscripts (NMM) was established to unearth and preserve India’s vast wealth of manuscripts.
- The NMM was established in 2003 by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
- According to some estimates, there are about ten million manuscripts in India, probably the largest collection in the world.
- These manuscripts include a wide variety of themes, languages, scripts, textures and aesthetics, illuminations, calligraphies, and illustrations.
- The chief mandate of the mission is to identify, collect, document, preserve and conserve the manuscripts from all over India and make it accessible to people.
- Its motto is ‘conserving the past for the future’.
To know about Manuscripts, please refer December 2021 DPN.