Three-day long International Conference- ‘Gyan Bharatam on Reclaiming India’s Knowledge Legacy through Manuscript Heritage’ organised in New Delhi, concluded today. Home Minister Amit Shah has expressed happiness over the success of the first international conference. Mr. Shah said that Gyan Bharatam Mission, has been started with the farsighted vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring India’s knowledge, science, research compiled in manuscripts, birch barks, Tamra Patra, stone inscriptions and records to the new generation.
He said that this conference provided a common platform to scholars, researchers and youth related to the world’s rich knowledge traditions. Mr. Shah said that the ‘Gyan Bharatam Mission’ is going to connect the whole world again with India’s unimaginable knowledge heritage by surveying, documenting and analyzing more than one crore manuscripts across the country at a cost of 483 crore rupees.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the conference, said that the Gyan Bharatam Mission is set to become the voice of India’s culture, literature and consciousness. He added, India has the world’s largest collection of about one crore manuscripts. He further added that throughout history, crores of manuscripts were destroyed, but the ones that remain show how devoted the ancestors were to knowledge, science and learning.
Talking exclusively to Akashvani News, Dr Sangita Gogoi, Director (Research) in the Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, Government of Assam, said that this conference is a thread to link India’s manuscript heritage. She expressed gratitude towards the government of India for organising the conference, saying it is a good initiative.
Another participant from Surat in Gujarat, Vishika Jain, said that Gyan Bharatam is a fruitful initiative that brought people together from across the country and it is a platform for preserving Indian heritage.
On the first day of the conference, Union Culture Minister, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had addressed the inaugural session. He said that the Gyan Bharatam mission aims to preserve India’s manuscript heritage for posterity. The Minister had informed that under the mission, 25 clusters, 20 regional centers and ten centers of excellence were envisioned.
He also highlighted that all those teachings related to life that were created thousands of years ago are still useful for mankind and the environment.
Our correspondent reports that over one thousand one hundred participants, including scholars, experts, institutions and cultural practitioners from across the country and abroad, attended the conference.
