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The Department of Heritage Telangana connected Monday, June 15, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Noor International Microfilm Centre, Iran Cultural House, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, New Delhi, for the digitisation, preservation, conservation and cataloguing of uncommon manuscripts, paintings, books and archival records.
The MoU was formally signed by Arjun Rao Kuthadi, manager of the Department of Heritage Telangana, and Dr. Mehdi Khajeh Piri, manager of the Noor International Microfilm Centre, successful the beingness of A. Vani Prasad, Special Chief Secretary, Tourism, Culture and Arecheology among elder officials from some organisations.
The collaboration seeks to sphere Telangana’s postulation of manuscripts and records, peculiarly those successful Persian, Urdu, Arabic and different languages, utilizing technological digitisation and conservation techniques. Experts from the Iranian instauration volition undertake digitisation, indexing, cataloguing, repair and preservation enactment successful the State.
Under the initiative, astir 737 manuscripts, 3,091 paintings, 14,522 room books and 101 Dastawazats (archival records) volition beryllium covered. The task is expected to make high-quality integer archives and elaborate catalogues portion improving entree to practice resources for researchers and aboriginal generations, said a release.
It further added that the Telangana authorities volition not carnivore immoderate expenditure for the exercise, with each costs being met by the Iranian broadside done the Noor International Microfilm Centre. The statement besides includes provisions for grooming and capableness gathering of the department’s conservation unit successful modern preservation techniques.
