From February 13, at least 60 lakh documents — including Mughal emperor Shah Alam II’s 19th Century farman, partition decrees, and property papers dating back to 1870 — will be available free of cost to the public, with the launch of the Delhi government’s ‘e-abhilekh’ website.
The budget for the project is Rs 29.46 crore.
At the Delhi government’s Department of Archives office, there are 26 scanners procured from Germany to digitise A2-sized documents, and two overhead scanners for A0-sized ones. A team of 150 works on the documents five days a week, nine hours a day.
Read more of this in a report by Somya Lakhani published in The Indian Express...
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