Gyan Bharatam Mission
Why it Matters?
Prime Minister Modi launched the Gyan Bharatam Mission, highlighting digitisation of India’s vast manuscript heritage to prevent intellectual piracy, promote swadeshi and atmanirbhar Bharat, and share ancient knowledge globally.
What You Should Know?
It has been launched at the International Conference on “Reclaiming India’s Knowledge Legacy through Manuscript Heritage.
It is a Central Sector Scheme (2024–31).
It is a restructured form of the National Mission for Manuscripts (2003) under IGNCA.
The mission aims to survey, document, catalogue, digitise and preserve manuscripts.
A digital repository portal “Gyan Bharatam” has been launched.