Web portal of Delhi Archives launched

Delhi | Thursday | 14th February, 2019

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Photo: ANINew Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday launched a web portal of Delhi Archives of the Delhi government having centuries-old land records. Calling it an important transparency reform, the government said the web portal of Delhi Archives is a glimpse of the Project of Digitisation and Micro-filming of Archival Records which was initiated by the department in 2017. The department is having archival records pertaining to the heritage of the city for the period 1803 onwards,” the statement said. The number of uploaded records would gradually increase in due process and four crore pages will be uploaded in stipulated period, the government said. “Delhi Archives is a custodian of records of the Delhi government and was established in the year 1972 with a sole aim to preserve the archival heritage of the historic city — Delhi..