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Gyan Bharatam Mission

04-02-2025

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The Union Budget 2025-26 announced the Gyan Bharatam Mission, under which one crore manuscripts will be conserved and documented.

About Gyan Bharatam Mission

  • It is a special mission for the survey, documentation, and conservation of India’s manuscript heritage lying with academic institutions, museums, libraries, and private collectors.
  • It intends to cover more than one crore manuscripts.
  • key component of the Gyan Bharatam Mission is the national digital repository of the Indian knowledge system. 
  • It will serve as a platform for knowledge sharing
  • This storehouse will help in digitising and centralising India’s traditional knowledge. 
  • It will be accessible to researchers, students, and institutions worldwide.

What is a Manuscript?

  • A manuscript is a handwritten composition on paper, bark, cloth, metal, palm leaf, or any other material dating back at least seventy-five years that has significant scientific, historical, or aesthetic value.
  • Lithographs and printed volumes are not manuscripts.
  • Manuscripts are found in hundreds of different languages and scripts.
  • Often, one language is written in a number of different scripts. For example, Sanskrit is written in Oriya script, Grantha script, Devanagari script, and many other scripts.
  • Manuscripts are distinct from historical recordssuch as epigraphs on rocks, firmans, and revenue records, which provide direct information on events or processes in history.
  • Manuscripts have knowledge content. 

Gyan Bharatam Mission FAQs

Q1. What is the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM)?

Ans. It was established in February 2003, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, for Documenting, conserving and disseminating the knowledge preserved in the manuscripts.

Q2. What is the Indian knowledge system?

Ans. The Indian Knowledge System (IKS) refers to the vast and diverse body of traditional, indigenous, and classical knowledge developed in India over thousands of years.

Q3. What are Lithographs?

Ans. Lithographs are prints created using lithography, a printing technique where images are drawn on a flat stone or metal plate with oil-based ink and transferred onto paper.

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