Gyan Bharatam Portal
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- September 15, 2025
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Syllabus: GS1/Culture

In News:
- PM launched the Gyan Bharatam Portal at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
Background
- India has one of the world’s largest collections of manuscripts, estimated at over 5 million, spread across museums, libraries, monasteries, temples, private collections.
Earlier initiatives:
- National Mission for Manuscripts (2003) under Ministry of Culture.
- Digital Library of India Project (IITs + IISc, 2000s).
- UNESCO has also recognized manuscripts (e.g., Rigveda, Gilgit Manuscripts) under Memory of the World Programme.
About the Portal:
- Developed under the Gyan Bharatam Mission (2024–31), a Central Sector Scheme.
Focus Areas:
- Survey & Documentation: Identifying manuscripts in public/private domains.
- Digitisation & Conservation: Use of AI tools for multilingual search, annotation, restoration.
- Research & Publication: Facilitating scholars to study Vedas, Ayurveda, astronomy, philosophy.
- Capacity Building: Training conservators & manuscriptologists.
- Public Access: Open portal for students, teachers, global researchers.
- Linked with NEP 2020: integration of indigenous knowledge into curriculum.
Significance:
- Cultural: Protects fragile manuscripts from decay.
- Educational: Facilitates interdisciplinary studies, bridges ancient wisdom with modern science.
- Strategic: Enhances India’s soft power, similar to how China uses Confucius Institutes.
- Technological: Showcases AI for heritage preservation.
Global Context
- Europe’s Europeana Project digitizes cultural heritage.
- China has a National Ancient Books Protection Project.
- India’s effort can become the largest digital manuscript repository in Asia.
Do You Know?
- The Tropic of Cancer (23°30′N) passes close to New Delhi (launch venue).
- Bakhshali Manuscript (found in Pakistan, now at Oxford) is one of the oldest texts using “zero”.
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