JAMMU, March 16 -- Efforts to preserve and document rare manuscripts in Jammu and Kashmir received a boost with the inauguration of a three-day workshop-cum-training programme on the 'Gyan Bharatam Mission' and the launch of the National Survey of Manuscripts at the Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Canal Road, Jammu.
The programme was organised by the Department of Archives, Archaeology & Museums in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Regional Centre J&K.
Principal Secretary, Culture Department, Brij Mohan Sharma, while inaugurating the workshop, highlighted the importance of the Government of India's flagship initiative aimed at identifying, cataloguing and digitising manuscripts acr...