- Under the ‘Shaurya Sankalan’ project, military history will be preserved.
- Under the Project ‘Shaurya Sankalan: Digital Archiving of Military History’, nearly 700 hours of audio-visual content and 11 lakh pages of record on the 1948 Jammu and Kashmir conflict, the 1961 Goa Liberation and the India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971 have been archived.
- This initiative has been started as part of the Army’s effort to preserve the Army’s glorious past for posterity.
- 700 hours of audio-visual content and 11 lakh pages of record are held with over more than 1300 units, formations, regimental centres and military museums in the form of battle memoirs.
- The audio-visual films have been cured, digitised and preserved in the ‘Digital Archive Kiosk’, which was created at the United Services Institute of India, New Delhi.
- Another kiosk will be established at the upcoming ‘History Cell’ of the Army War College.
- In a web page interactive format, this content will remain available to researchers, academicians and scholar warriors.
