National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM)
Context:
The Union Ministry of Culture, recently said that is planning to “revive and relaunch” the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) and is mulling the formation of an autonomous body to help preserve ancient texts in India.
Relevance:
GS-02 (Government policies and interventions)
National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM)
- It is a program that aims to unearth and preserve the vast manuscript wealth of India.
- Its biggest and most ambitious project is to create a database of all Indian manuscripts in the country and abroad.
- The National Database of Manuscripts, Kriti Sampada, is available on the Mission’s website.
- Institutions like Rampur Raza Library, Rampur and Khuda Bakhsh Library, Patna are world renowned for their manuscript collections.
- It was established by Ministry of Tourism in February 2003.
- India possesses an estimate of ten million manuscripts, probably the largest collection in the world. These cover a variety of themes, textures and aesthetics, scripts, languages, calligraphies, illuminations and illustrations.
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