Dr. Mahesh Sharma releases online 2nd set of 50 declassified files of Bose
Second Set of 50 declassified files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was released Online on Web Portal www.netajipapers.gov.in by Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (I/C) for Culture and Tourism in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The present batch of 50 files consists of 10 files from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), 10 files from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and 30 files from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) pertaining to the period 1956 to 2009.
It may be recalled that First lot of 100 files relating to Netaji, after their preliminary conservation treatment and digitization, was put in the public domain by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 23 January 2016, on the occasion of the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji.
The present release of 50 files will further meet the continued public demand to access these files and this will also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on the doyen of the freedom movement.