Hyderabad, April 8 -- The Telangana State Archives and Research Institute (TSRAI) is creating metadata for 2,000 to 2,500 manuscripts every single day. Survey teams are fanning out to universities, academies and the homes of private collectors across the state, as a June-end deadline looms.

The institute is functioning as a cluster centre under the Gyan Bharatam Mission (GBM), a Union Ministry of Culture initiative. It has set itself a huge goal - survey, conserve and digitise over one crore manuscripts from across India in the first year alone. 

Apart from managing its own collection of 1.8 lakh documents, TSRAI is also handling manuscripts from outside institutions and private individuals, deploying survey teams to locate and pre...