Abhilekh Patal Portal, Purpose, Mission, Latest News

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Abhilekh Patal Portal Latest News

Recently, the Prime Minister of India urged citizens to explore the ‘Abhilekh Patal’ portal for a deeper understanding of India’s historical legacy.

It is a full-featured web-portal to access the National Archives of India’s reference media and its digitized collections through the internet.
It is a digital repository thoughtfully curated by the National Archives of India (NAI).
It has a mission to provide easy access to India’s historical archives, comprising an astounding 7 million records.
Purpose: Its purpose is to ensure the effortless accessibility of historical records, reaching across geographical borders to engage a diverse global community.
The archival collections available through the Abhilekh Patal portal cover a wide range of historical records preserved by the National Archives of India. These include:
- Public records transferred from various Ministries and Departments of the Government of India
- Private papers of eminent personalities
- Archival reference media such as photographs, maps, microfilms and rare documents
- Digitised historical government files and archival collections maintained by NAI

It was established on 11 March 1891 at Calcutta (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department, it is the biggest archival repository in South Asia.
It is the repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of record creators and general users.
It has a vast corpus of records viz., public records, private papers, oriental records, cartographic records and microfilms, which constitute an invaluable source of information for scholars-administrators and users of archives.
Head office: New Delhi
It has one Regional Office in Bhopal and three Records Centres at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Culture, Government of India.