Panaji: Goa’s age old Archives which are considered to be one of the oldest in the Asia will now be digitalized under the Central government’s Smart City Mission scheme, State Archives and Archeology minister Vijai Sardesai said.
Sardesai who assured to digitalise Archives during recently held monsoon sessio of the Assembly that the proposal has been mooted to take up digitalization of archives under Panaji Smart City Mission, an initiative of the union government.
He said that the Archies are presently housed in Portuguese-era structure in Panaji and have often been considered by people as unsafe due to the dilapidated condition of the building.
“Also the practise of photocopying these ancient papers of inscription and description is considered a retrograde practice that should be replaced by digitalization,” the minister said.
Sardesai said that his department do not have sufficient fund for the purpose of digitalizing the archives.
Goa has several records in its Archives and Archeology department which are dating back to the time when State was ruled by Portugal. The coastal state was liberated from Portuguese rule in the year 1961 after 450-year-old colonial rule.
