About four crore pages of archival material of the Delhi Archives would be digitised and microfilmed in the next 30 months, with the Delhi government on Thursday launching the digitisation project.
The Delhi Archives, which is tasked with preserving the archival heritage of the Capital, has about 10 crore pages of materials, according Deputy Chief Minister and Art and Culture Minister Manish Sisodia, who inaugurated the digitisation project.
₹25.40 crore
Of these, four crore pages would be converted into digital and microfilm versions in order preserve them and make them more accessible to those interested, he said. At a cost of ₹25.40 crore, the project would be first of its kind in Asia when it comes to the large number of records being covered. The archives have records from 1803 till 1990, including materials from the trial of last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, the records of the First War of Independence in 1857, land acquisition records for Lutyens’ Delhi, conviction records of Tihar jail, and photos of old buildings here.
