The Pranab Mukherjee Foundation was formally launched here on Thursday evening, in the presence of former President Pranab Mukherjee and a host of dignitaries, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, BJP veteran L.K. Advani and Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
The foundation, its brochure says, “will initiate, support and execute projects that will create and use knowledge, creativity and innovation to improve the quality of life in rural, semi-urban and urban areas and contribute to the building of an inclusive India.”
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Mukherjee said, “Preservation of papers of the public life of those who devoted decades in public life and their activities have both individual and historic value to understand the time and situation in which they served people,” he said.
“Some memorials have been raised but systematic analysis of the papers of Prime Ministers and Presidents has not been done systematically here as in other countries, ” the former President said.
