All Records Relating To Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose & Azad Hind Fauj De-classified

The Government has de-classified all records relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Azad Hind Fauj and placed them in the National Archives of India.

The details of de-classified records relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose are as below:

Sl. No.

Ministry/Office

No. of records/files

i

Prime Minister’s Office

58

ii

Ministry of Home Affairs

37

iii

Ministry of External Affairs

200

iv

Cabinet Secretariat

09

 

Total

304

 

Accordingly, a total of 304 declassified records/files have been transferred to National Archives of India by above mentioned Ministries/Offices for permanent retention. Out of 304 files, 303 files are already uploaded on the Netaji web portal i.e. www.netajipapers.gov.in

The National Archives of India is the custodian of declassified files/records of the Government of India. In addition, in 1997 the National Archives of India had received 990 declassified files pertaining to the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) from the Ministry of Defence, and in 2012, 1030 files/ items pertaining to the Khosla Commission (271 files/ items) and Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (759 files/ items) from the Ministry of Home Affairs. All these files/ items are already open to the public under the Public Records Rules, 1997.

This information was given by the Minister of State (I/c) of Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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