PM inaugurates 'Gandhi Heritage Portal'

Prime Minister inaugurated “Gandhi Heritage Portal” which will help in disseminating writings of Mahatma Gandhi- “The Father of the united states, in an authentic and unabridged form. An internet based archive, developed under the guidance of Secretary of state for culture, it seeks to examine his message of non-violence, humanism and demanding aspects of our freedom find it difficult to the world and specially to Indian youth.

• in line with the recommendations of the The Gandhi Heritage Sites Panel towards preservation, protection and dissemination from the tangible and the intangible heritage of Mahatma Gandhi (another recommendation was the establishing of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission that also has been completed ).
• Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad : was entrusted the job of concept design, development and maintenance ( the largest repository of Gandhiji’s original writings, photo archive, assortment of over 45,000 books on contributing to Gandhiji and the Indian National Movement).

Options that come with portal :

• The Gandhi Heritage Sites’ section: might have detailed information regarding places that Gandhiji visited.
• “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi” : obtainable in 3 languages- English, Hindi and Gujarati.

A few of the literary work of Gandhiji :

An Autobiography (The storyline of My Experiments with Truth),
Hind Swaraj,
From Yervada Mandir,
Satyagraha in Nigeria,
Constructive Programmes: Their Meaning and put,
Ashram Observances in Action,
Key To Health and
Gandhiji’s translation from the Gita as Anasakti Yoga.

Journals by Gandhiji :

Indian Opinion
Young India
Navjivan
Harijan Bandhu
Harijan
Harijan Sevak etc.
Just before his project, Ministry of Culture is promoting Bichitra - the web archives of writings of Rabindra Nath Tagore included in its commitment to create and sustain free archive movement to democratise use of our intangible cultural and philosophical heritage. These initiatives would also strengthen and facilitate teaching , research and inquiry.