AHMEDABAD: For the closing seven months, the arena’s biggest virtual repository on Mahatma Gandhi — The Gandhi Heritage Portal — is without an editor. This put up has been lying vacant since August closing 12 months. It was in September 2013 that the Union ministry of tradition had launched this one-stop web page for all students who sought after to analyze on Gandhiji and his essential works. The web page was launched by way of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and an unique grant of Rs 7.5 crore was equipped for the virtual archives.
The Sabarmati Ashram is the most important repository of Gandhiji’s unique writings and has a photo archive of over 7,000 pictures of Gandhiji and his associates. It also has a considerable library of over 45,000 books on and about Gandhiji and the Indian National Movement. The portal was conceptualised around The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG). It first positioned the accrued works in three languages — English 100 volumes, Hindi 97 volumes and Gujarati 82 volumes. These volumes are interlinked to provide easy motion from one textual content and language to the opposite.
Besides the Ashram’s personal assortment, the portal has in the closing four years have made several additions including your entire Gandhi papers from the National Archives, MJ Library assortment and several different personal collections donated to the Ashram. “The trustees had met two times for appointing an editor for the portal, but are yet to take a choice,” stated a senior official of the Ashram. Without a practical editor and a Gandhian pupil, opting for which texts will have to be uploaded and in what order is an issue, claim officers.
The Sabarmati Ashram is the most important repository of Gandhiji’s unique writings and has a photo archive of over 7,000 pictures of Gandhiji and his associates. It also has a considerable library of over 45,000 books on and about Gandhiji and the Indian National Movement. The portal was conceptualised around The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG). It first positioned the accrued works in three languages — English 100 volumes, Hindi 97 volumes and Gujarati 82 volumes. These volumes are interlinked to provide easy motion from one textual content and language to the opposite.
Besides the Ashram’s personal assortment, the portal has in the closing four years have made several additions including your entire Gandhi papers from the National Archives, MJ Library assortment and several different personal collections donated to the Ashram. “The trustees had met two times for appointing an editor for the portal, but are yet to take a choice,” stated a senior official of the Ashram. Without a practical editor and a Gandhian pupil, opting for which texts will have to be uploaded and in what order is an issue, claim officers.
No editor yet for Gandhi Heritage Portal
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