Abhilekh Patal - Portal for Access to Archives and Learning

Abhilekh Patal Portal for Access to Archives and Learning is an initiative of National Archives of India (NAI) to make its rich treasure of Indian Archival Records available to one and all at the click of a button.

About National Archives of India

The National Archives of India is the custodian of the records of enduring value of the Government of India. Established on 11 March, 1891 at Calcutta (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department, it is the biggest archival repository in South Asia. It has a vast corpus of records viz., public records, private papers, oriental records, cartographic records and microfilms, which constitute an invaluable source of information for scholars-administrators and users of archives.

The Director General of Archives, heading the Department has been given the mandate for the implementation of the Public Records Act, 1993 and the rules made there under, the Public Records Rules, 1997 for the management, administration and preservation of public records in the Ministries,Departments,Public Sector undertakings etc.of the Central Government. Located at the heart of New Delhi, the Department functions as an Attached Office of the Ministry of Culture and has one Regional Office at Bhopal and three Records Centres at Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Puducherry.

For more information, click here.

Available resources

• Users can Explore Online Reference Media - Over 2.7 million reference media held by the National Archives of India
• Users can Find Digitized Collections - Over 192632 digitized records are available for online access
• Search and Advanced Search options are available t the users

For all support and feedback related issues including Digitized on Demand (DOD) status follow up please email on webmaster@abhilekh-patal.in

How to access

Visit the portal https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/

Register in the portal using the link https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/registration

Source : Abhilekh Patal Portal