Department of Heritage Telangana signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Noor International Microfilm Centre

¨     On 15 June 2026, the Department of Heritage Telangana signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Noor International Microfilm Centre.

¨     The agreement aims to digitise, preserve, conserve, repair, and catalogue rare manuscripts, paintings, books, and archival records.

The project covers approximately:

¨     737 manuscripts

¨     3,091 paintings

¨     14,522 library books

¨     101 Dastawazats (archival records)

The collaboration includes collections in Persian, Urdu, Arabic, and other languages.Experts from the Noor International Microfilm Centre will undertake digitisation, indexing, cataloguing, repair, and preservation work.The entire project will be funded by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with no financial burden on the Telangana government.Earlier, on 7 September 2022, the Telangana State Archives and Research Institute signed a separate MoU with the Noor International Microfilm Centre.That agreement focused on the repair, conservation, digitisation, and cataloguing of Urdu and Persian historical manuscripts and documents.The Telangana State Archives and Research Institute houses more than 43 million documents.About 80% of these records are in classical Persian and Urdu.The archives contain records dating back to 1406 AD.These documents belong to the periods of the Bahmani Sultanate, Qutb Shahi dynasty, Adil Shahi dynasty, and Mughal Empire.Key Facts: MoU signed on 15 June 2026; 737 manuscripts, 3,091 paintings, 14,522 books, 101 archival records; oldest records date back to 1406 AD.