{"id":27538,"date":"2024-10-26T06:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27538"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:57:05","slug":"national-mission-for-manuscripts-nmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-mission-for-manuscripts-nmm\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Presently<\/strong>, <strong>NMM<\/strong> is a <strong>part of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>new body<\/strong>, likely to be named the National Manuscripts Authority, <strong>will be an autonomous entity <\/strong>under the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in February 2003, by the <strong>Ministry of Tourism and Culture<\/strong>, Government of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate<\/strong>: <strong>Documenting, conserving and disseminating<\/strong> the <strong>knowledge preserved in<\/strong> the <strong>manuscripts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Motto: \u2018Conserving the past for the future\u2019<\/li>\n<li>A unique project in its programme and mandate, the NMM seeks to<strong> unearth and preserve the vast manuscript wealth of India.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India possesses<\/strong> an estimate of <strong>ten million manuscripts<\/strong>, probably the <strong>largest collection in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These cover a variety of themes, textures, and aesthetics, scripts, languages, calligraphies, illuminations, and illustrations.<\/li>\n<li>While <strong>75%<\/strong> of the existing manuscripts <strong>are in Sanskrit,<\/strong> 25% are in regional languages, according to the NMM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Locate manuscripts<\/strong> through a national-level survey and post-survey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Document<\/strong> each and <strong>every manuscript<\/strong> and manuscript repository, <strong>for a National Electronic Database<\/strong> that <strong>currently contains<\/strong> information on <strong>four million manuscripts<\/strong> making this the <strong>largest database on Indian manuscripts<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Conserve manuscripts<strong> incorporating both modern and indigenous methods<\/strong> of conservation and training a new generation of manuscript conservators.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>train the next generation of scholars in various aspects of Manuscript Studies<\/strong> like languages, scripts and critical editing and cataloguing of texts and conservation of manuscripts.<\/li>\n<li>To promote access to manuscripts by <strong>digitizing the rarest and most endangered manuscripts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To promote <strong>access to manuscripts through the publication<\/strong> of critical editions of unpublished manuscripts and catalogues.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>facilitate public&#8217;s engagement with manuscripts<\/strong> through lectures, seminars, publications and other outreach programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>To achieve this mandate, the mission has <strong>established<\/strong> more than <strong>100 Manuscripts Resource Centres<\/strong> and <strong>Manuscripts Conservation Centres<\/strong> all over India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is a Manuscript?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A manuscript is a <strong>handwritten composition on paper, bark, cloth<\/strong>, metal, palm leaf, or <strong>any other material dating back<\/strong> at least <strong>seventy-five years<\/strong> that <strong>has significant scientific<\/strong>, <strong>historical, or aesthetic value<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Lithographs and printed volumes are not manuscripts.<\/li>\n<li>Manuscripts are found in hundreds of <strong>different languages and scripts.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Often, one language is written in <\/strong>a number of <strong>different scripts.<\/strong> For example, Sanskrit is written in Oriya script, Grantha script, Devanagari script, and many other scripts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Manuscripts are <strong>distinct from historical records such as epigraphs on rocks<\/strong>, <strong>firm ans<\/strong>, and <strong>revenue records,<\/strong> which provide direct information on events or processes in history.<\/li>\n<li>Manuscripts <strong>have knowledge content.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Lithography?<\/h3>\n<p>A lithograph is a print that&#8217;s made using a stone or metal plate. Lithographs are etched into the plate using a chemical reaction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/government-seeks-to-relaunch-national-manuscript-mission-set-up-autonomous-body\/article68795963.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government seeks to relaunch National Manuscript Mission, set up autonomous body<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Mission for Manuscripts was established in February 2003, by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27538","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\/27538","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=27538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}