Those who are interested in knowing the historic role of freedom fighters in general and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in particular will be happy to note that 64 secret files containing 12,000 pages kept in Bengal Archives have been digitised and would be available to general public for reference to original reports. Read an extract of the news from Today's Times of India, link :http://go4g.airtel.in/nd/?pid=605628&rgn=def
The West Bengal government on Friday declassified 64 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The files were handed to the family members first and also kept on display in a police museum in Kolkata.
However, the files will be allowed for public viewing only by Monday. The documents are believed to be in over 12,000 pages.
"The files related to Netaji have been placed in the archives of Kolkata police museum. There are about 64 file that contain 12,744 pages. The entire files have been digitised and the original files have been kept in the police museum," Kolkata Police Commissioner Surajit Kar Purkayastha told the media here.
"It was quite a big task because in a short period of time we had to digitise entire files," he added.
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