{"id":10070,"date":"2026-04-27T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:01:52","slug":"what-is-abhilekh-patal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-abhilekh-patal\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhilekh Patal Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Abhilekh Patal Portal Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Prime Minister of India urged citizens to explore the \u2018Abhilekh Patal\u2019 portal for a deeper understanding of India\u2019s historical legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Abhilekh Patal Portal<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>full-featured web-portal to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> access the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-national-archives-of-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Archives of India<\/a>\u2019s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reference media and its digitized collections through the internet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a digital repository thoughtfully <\/span><b>curated by the National Archives of India (NAI).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a mission to provide easy access to India&#8217;s historical archives, comprising an astounding 7 million records.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its purpose is to <\/span><b>ensure the effortless accessibility of historical records<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reaching across geographical borders to engage a diverse global community.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Public records<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> transferred from various Ministries and Departments of the Government of India<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Private papers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of <\/span><b>eminent personalities<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Archival reference <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">media such as photographs, maps, microfilms and rare documents<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Digitised historical government files <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and archival collections maintained by NAI<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about the National Archives of India<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>established on 11 March 1891<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Calcutta (Kolkata) as the <\/span><b>Imperial Record Department,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it is the biggest archival repository in South Asia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the repository of the <\/span><b>non-current records<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of record creators and general users.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Head office:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New Delhi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has one Regional Office in <\/span><b>Bhopal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and three Records Centres at <\/span><b>Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Nodal Ministry:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ministry of Culture, Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/pm-modi-highlights-abhilekh-patal-digital-archive-showcases-rare-manuscripts-and-historic-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>DD<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abhilekh Patal Portal is a full-featured web-portal to access the National Archives of India\u2019s reference media. 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