INDIA, May 8, 2012: The Minister for Culture and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that only the post independence records of permanent nature recently received from various Ministries/Departments etc. need immediate attention for their preservation. National Archives of India (NAI) has employed 45 preservation professionals for preservation of such records.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today she said, approximately 1.5 million pages of documents/manuscripts have been digitized.
She said, NAI has modernized its conservation research laboratory with the latest equipments for carrying out the preventive and curative conservations of records. Training in the fields of conservation of archival heritage for both professional and sub-professional level are conducted by School of Archival Studies and staff of NAI are also deputed to national and international organizations to update their knowledge under various exchange programs and agreements.