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Making its archives extra accessible to researchers and college students, the National Archives of India (NAI) has determined to permit students to take pictures of information in its library with mobile phones.
Scholars can take up to 150 photographs a day of the information or documents that they require from the archives which were issued to them as per their requisition. A charge of ₹500 might be charged from Indian students and ₹1,000 from overseas students which might be paid by way of the acquisition of a coupon.
The NAI, in an workplace memorandum, mentioned that registered analysis students could be allowed to take pictures of information or documents with their mobile telephone digicam within the analysis room, personal archives, oriental information and library underneath the supervision of the session space employees underneath CCTV surveillance.
Before commencing pictures of the documents, the students would have to enter the small print of the documents and the pages to be photographed within the kind provided and deposit the identical with the officer in-charge of the session space.
However, some specialists questioned the restrict of 150 photographs a day and the necessity for a charge.
Rahul Sagar, Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science on the New York University, Abu Dhabi, in a tweet, questioned the cost put for photos being taken with a telephone. He additionally questioned the 150 photographs restrict and the necessity for every day coupons.
