Initiation of Gyan Bharatam Mission Manuscript Digitisation Drive
Why focus: GS1 Art & Culture. Tests National Mission for Manuscripts and traditional script classifications in How-Many-Correct format.
In News
What Happened
Why It Matters
Background
History & Context
What Changed
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Funding and Scale: BEFORE, the NMM operated with limited annual funding (around ₹3.5 crore recently); NOW, the Gyan Bharatam Mission has a drastically increased budget outlay of ₹482.85 crore to systematically digitize over 1 crore manuscripts.
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Technological Integration: BEFORE, digitization relied on basic scanning and manual cataloguing; NOW, the mission utilizes AI-assisted Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and blockchain technology for provenance tracking and multilingual translation.
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Institutional Framework: BEFORE, preservation was largely centralized or limited to select Manuscript Conservation Centres; NOW, the mission employs a decentralized 'Cluster and Independent Centre' model via new MoUs with dozens of institutions, alongside a grassroots volunteer network called 'Pandulipi Mitras'.
Prelims Angle
NCERT Connection
Practice Questions
Q1
With Reference ToWith reference to the Gyan Bharatam Mission, consider the following statements: 1. It is a restructured version of the National Mission for Manuscripts which was originally established in 2003. 2. It aims to create a National Digital Repository using AI-assisted text recognition to digitize ancient knowledge systems. 3. The initiative operates under the nodal authority of the Ministry of Education. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?