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Centre to release 50 declassified files on Netaji today

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ANI New Delhi

The Centre will release the second batch of fifty declassified files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the national capital on Tuesday.

The documents consist of ten each files from the Prime Minister's Office and Home Ministry and 30 files from Ministry of External Affairs pertaining to the period 1956 to 2009.

Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (independent charge) and Civil Aviation, Mahesh Sharma will release these files online on web portal www.netajipapers.gov.in.

In January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had put the first lot of 100 files in the public domain on the occasion of the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji.

 

The present release of files will further meet the continued public demand to access them and it will also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on the doyen of the freedom movement.

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First Published: Mar 29 2016 | 8:17 AM IST

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