100 files related to Netaji will be released by PM
New Delhi: Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will on
Saturday, 23rd January 2016 release digital copies of 100 files
related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose following the government's decision to
declassify files on the freedom fighter. The files, digitised and given
"preliminary conservation treatment" by the National Archives of
India, will be released on the birth anniversary of Netaji.
The culture ministry said the National
Archives plans to release digital copies of 25 declassified files on Netaji
every month.
It said Modi told members of Netaji's
extended family in October last year that the government would declassify the
files.
The first lot of 33 files were
declassified by the Prime Minister's Office and handed over to the National
Archives on December 4, 2015.
Later, the home ministry and the
external affairs ministry also initiated the process of declassification of
files relating to Netaji in their respective collection that were then
transferred to the National Archives.
The
release of the files "will meet the long-standing public demand" and
"will also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on
Netaji", a culture ministry statement said.
The National Archives received 990
declassified files pertaining to the Indian National Army (INA) from the
defence ministry in 1997.
Netaji, one of the leading lights of
the Indian freedom struggle, set up the INA during World War II to take on the
British Indian Army.
A former Congress president and once a
close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, Bose's reported death in a plane crash in
Formosa, now Taiwan, in 1945 has remained a mystery.
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