{"id":10070,"date":"2023-04-22T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:40:22","slug":"what-is-abhilekh-patal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-abhilekh-patal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Abhilekh Patal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Abhilekh Patal:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What it is?<\/strong> It is a <strong>full-featured web portal<\/strong> to access the <strong>National Archives of India\u2019s<\/strong> reference media and its digitized collections through the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Abhilekh is a Sanskrit term used in India <strong>for records<\/strong> since ancient times and <strong>Patal<\/strong> is a Sanskrit word meaning <strong>a board, platform<\/strong>, or surface.<\/li>\n<li>A combination of both these words has been adopted as an acronym for Portal for Access to Archives and Learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about the National Archives of India<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>established on 11 March 1891 at Calcutta<\/strong> (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department, it is the biggest archival repository in South Asia.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>repository of the non-current records of the Government of India<\/strong> and is holding them in trust for the use of record creators and general users.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>It is Located at the heart of <strong>New Delhi<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has one Regional Office in Bhopal and three Records Centres at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> It is an Attached Office of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What are archives?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Archives are collections of historical records and documents that are preserved and organized for research and reference purposes. Archives can include a wide range of materials, such as manuscripts, letters, photographs, maps, audiovisual materials, and digital records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1918136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM praises \u201cAbhilekh Patal\u201d a portal with over 1 Crore Pages of Historical Records of the National Archive<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abhilekh Patal  is a full-featured web portal to access the National Archives of India\u2019s reference media and its digitized collections through the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}