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Annual Report of Manipur State Archives 2001 |
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With a view to establish a State Record Office on the norms as laid down by the National Archives of India, Govt. of India, New Delhi, the Manipur State Archives is established in March, 1982 under the Directorate of Social Welfare, Art & Culture Manipur. Then the Directorate of Art & Culture was bifurcated from the Directorate of Social Welfare, Art & Culture Manipur in the year 1990. Keeping in view with the minimum standard, the Manipur State Archives has been functioning with a skeleton staff of 20 (twenty) numbers in seven functional sections viz. (1) Administration (2) Functional (3) Repairing & Binding (4) Research & Publication (5) Conservation & Rehabilitation (6) Library and (7) Reprography & Micro film etc. Objectives: In order to enable
the Manipur State Archives to perform its functions more effectively
with the approach of new scientific inventions & technology, the
need for expansion, development & strengthening of the existing State
Archives is felt very much essential. Meanwhile, the Government of
India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of
Culture, New Delhi is contemplating about the new initiatives to be
taken up for the North-East Region in consultation with the State
Government as well as educational and other related institutions
operating in the States. The strengthening of the existing State
Archives is also one of the areas where the new initiatives need to
be evolved. As early as March, 1958, the National Archives of India,
Govt. of India, New Delhi, on the recommendations of the National
Committee of Archives, laid down a minimum standard which a State
Record Office, however small, would be expected to maintain with
regard to maintenance, preservation and utilization of records, and
the staff to be an independent organization of records, and the
staff to be required for the purpose. The status of the state Record
Office should be an independent organization and should in no case
be tagged with Archaeology, Museum or Library and the main functions
should be as follows :- i)
to concentrate in a single repository all the non-current
records, both confidential and non-confidential of the State
Secretariat and the authorities subordinate to it, whether at the
Head Quarters or elsewhere, including District, Division and
Collectorate and similar records of the High Court and other Courts. ii)
to house them in a properly equipped building; iii)
to arrange and classify them on scientific principles; iv)
to take such measures as are required for their preservation
and rehabilitation; v)
to make them available both to the official and to the
non-official use; vi)
to provide the records with the necessary reference media,
such as summary and detailed inventories, hand books etc., and vii)
to
ensure that no Government agency use any of their archives except in
accordance with the rules framed for the purpose. Main activities during the year: ·
Installation
of new sophisticated machinery/equipments ·
Expansion
of the Library ·
Steps
taken to introduce computerisation ·
Submission
of the Scheme/Project ·
Reference
media ·
Publication
programme ·
Research
and References ·
Preservation
of records ·
Photo
duplications · Acquisition of public records and private papers |