PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Haridwar
Under the flagship initiative of the Union Ministry of Culture christened as ‘Gyan Bharatam Mission’, a five-day workshop was inaugurated at Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar on Tuesday. The topic ‘Prevention and Conservation of Manuscripts’ will be discussed in the course of the workshop, said the organisers, adding that the primary objective of this mission is to preserve, document and digitise India’s invaluable and vast manuscript heritage so that this ancient knowledge-wealth is preserved for future generations.
Patanjali sources further said that this workshop is being organised with the aim of creating awareness about manuscript conservation and developing storage-related skills. Officials, experts and various representatives of the Union Ministry of Culture are participating in the programme.
The project director, Gyan Bharatam Mission, Prof Anirvan Das stated that all three dimensions—language, script and content—are preserved and promoted. “So far, 7.5 million manuscripts have been registered for long-term preservation,” he said and added that under Gyan Bharatam, work will be carried out in five key areas: linguistics, survey, research and publication, digitisation and text analysis. “These are not just ancient documents but living evidence of India’s consciousness, scientific vision and philosophical heritage. Two hundred ‘manuscripts’ have been correlated with artificial intelligence (AI),” he stated.
Among the dignitaries present on the occasion were the head of Patanjali Herbal Research, Vedpriya Arya and vice-president of Patanjali Research Foundation, Anupam Srivastava.
