The National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) was launched by the Ministry of Culture in the year 2003.
The Mission has the mandate of identifying, documenting, conserving and making accessible the manuscript heritage of India. The ultimate objective of the Mission is to establish a Digital Manuscripts Repository at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in which researchers and scholars can view and consult the manuscripts
IGNCA is an autonomous institution under the Union Ministry of Culture. It was established in 1987 as a centre for research, academic pursuit and dissemination in the field of the arts.
Its motto is ‘conserving the past for the future’.
National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) is also developing an app to make around 3 lakh manuscripts accessible.
