Vision To help in spreading a feeling of national pride in our documentary cultural heritage and ensuring its preservation for posterity. Mission To encourage the scientific management, administration and conservation of records all over the country. To foster close relations between archivists' and archival institutions, both at the national and international levels. To encourage greater liberalization of access to archival holdings. To help in developing greater professionalism and a ... The National Archives of India is an attached office under Ministry of Culture. The organisation is headed by the Director General of Archives who is assisted by Deputy Directors of Archives looking after various Divisions like Records, Records Management, Administration, Training, Publication, Library, Conservation, Digitisation etc., The Department has a Regional Office at Bhopal and three Records Centres at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry. The genesis of the National Archives of India may be traced back to the year 1860 when Sandeman, the Civil Auditor, in his report stressed the need of relieving the offices of congestion by destruction of the papers of routine nature and transfer of all valuable records to a ‘Grand Central Archive’. However, things took a concrete shape in 1889, when Professor G.W. Forrest of Elphinstone College, Bombay was entrusted the job of examining the records of the Foreign Department of the ... NAI Library is a specialized reference library which focuses on Medieval and Modern Indian History to complement public and private records available in NAI. It has a huge collection of rare and proscribed publications, official reports, gazettes, gazetteers, census of India, survey reports, parliamentary proceedings etc.
