About Abhilekh Patal Portal:
- It is a full-featured web-portal to access the National Archives of India’s reference media and its digitized collections through the internet.
- It is a digital repository thoughtfully curated by the National Archives of India (NAI).
- It has a mission to provide easy access to India's historical archives, comprising of an astounding 7 million records.
- Purpose: Its purpose is to ensure the effortless accessibility of historical records, reaching across geographical borders to engage a diverse global community.
- 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:
- Public records transferred from various Ministries and Departments of the Government of India
- Private papers of eminent personalities
- Archival reference media such as photographs, maps, microfilms and rare documents
- Digitised historical government files and archival collections maintained by NAI
Key facts about the National Archives of India
- It was established on 11 March 1891 at Calcutta (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department, it is the biggest archival repository in South Asia.
- It is the repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of record creators and general users.
- 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.
- Head office: New Delhi
- It has one Regional Office in Bhopal and three Records Centres at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.
- Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
