Reinventing the function of an National Archive a democratic government, the people elect its leaders. It is a participatory system. The creation of the government is a public profile. In order to TRANSPARENT Being get the people involved knowledge of the existing systems needs to be made available to them. There needs to be a constant flow of knowledge from government to its people. Not only does knowledge need to be imparted but opinions need to be gathered, discussed and shared. This knowledge PARTICIPATORY the can be spread by the help of institutions that directly correspond with the government, and help educating the people of the governing systems, policies and rules. A relationship exists between the knowledge and the citizens that can be fulfilled by the means of media, documents or films. Civic institutions AWARENESS play a big role in this. These institutions can help give an identity to a place for the people, help display its culture and house the leaders of the nation.
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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING, NEW DELHI
THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT 2005 It is a historic legislation in the annals of democracy in India. One of the major objectives of this Act is to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority by enabling citizens to access information held by or under the control of public authorities.
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MASS MEDIA The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is a branch of the Government of India. Contains an anonymous body that acts as the Public front It is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to information, broadcasting, the press and films in India.
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI MODE OF KNOWLEDGE
Documents
GOVERNING BODY
Ministry of Education and Culture
OBJECTIVES
to help in spreading a feeling of national pride in our documentary cultural heritage and ensuring its preservation
FUNCTION
Acquisition of private papers collections from all departments of the government so as to put it on public records for research and reference. Preservation and Conservation of historical papers. Archiving awareness.
Handling of press relations to present the policies of Government of India and to get feed-back on the Government policies. Dissemination of information about India within and outside the country through publications on matters of national importance. Research, Reference and Training to assist the media units of the Ministry to meet their responsibilities.
TIME LINE OF RECORDS DEVELOPMENT
1700 Book of consultation
1750 Proceeding volume
East India Company Weekly Recordings of Council meetings
Individual volumes made per subject and meeting
1800
Departmentalised Volumes
Secret, Public, Revenue, Political, Military
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Monthly Proceeding
Categorized ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ based on importance
1920 Filing
1998 Open to Public
Subject filing System under ever department
President of India, declared the National Archives open to the general public
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF INDIA:
Our Objetcive is to help in spreading a feeling of national pride in our documentary cultural heritage and ensuring its preservation TIME LINE OF ARCHIVE DEVELOPMENT
1891
Imperial Records Department
Located in Imperial Secretariat Building at Calcutta
1926 Shifted in location
1940 Conservation Research Laboratory
1941 Trining Archives
With the change in capital, The IRD shifted to New Delhi
Conduct researches into problems relating to conservation
Increases Scope of Record Managment
1947 Change of Name
After independence, the IRD was rechristened as National Archives of India
The Right to Information Act 2005 is a historic legislation in the annals of democracy in India. One of the major objectives of this Act is to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority by enabling citizens to access information held by or under the control of public authorities. The introduction of this act made it compulsory for all Institutes to archive documents and present them for the public. Hence the nature of the archive as purely a medium for storing of documents is in question. To answer this question the archive needs to change its purpose from storing records, to spreading of knowledge and creating awareness and conservation. It needs to make a strong stand within the government institutes and become a place for democratic exchange between the citizens and nation governors.
Site Analysis RAJPATH, NEW DELHI
New Delhi From 1912 to 1931 British architects Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker were responsible for the construction of New Delhi as Bratians new imperial capital of Indian. The challenge they faced was to produce an architecture that successfully combined local traditions with a statement of colonial power, New Delhis urban plan with its emphasis on wide, straight roadways radiating like the spokes of a wheel from major imperial landmarks, was a direct expression of Brits control. Luytens New Delhi Luytens plan for New Delhi, conceived and constructed between 1912 and 1931, was very much the genre of Versailles and L’Enfant’s Washington. Characterized by formally laid about axial movement new works, strongly articulated terminal vistas and a low density, low rise physical fabric, New Delhi was the prestigious capital Britain’s Indian Empire, accommodating its governmental and other auxiliary functions. The plan established two Major Visual Corridors. Rajpath, also known as King’s Way, is the ceremonial avenue of the Republic of India. It runs between the Raisina acropolis to the all Indian war memorial arch and continues east towards Indrapat, site of the oldest Delhi of all, Indraprastha. Branching off from the Kings ay is a complex pattern of triangles and hexagons reminiscent of both Washington are diagonals linking selected monuments from the past that Luytens regarded as important. The king’s way is lined with beautiful ponds, large green lawns and trees on both sides it is located in such a way that the path goes straight towards Raisina Hill, India’s administrative centre. After climbing Raisina Hill, Rajpath is flanked by North Block and South Block. Ending at the gates of Rashtrapati Bhavan. At Vijay Chowk it crosses Sansad Marg and the Parliament House of India can be seen to the right if coming from India Gate. The secondary access known as Janpath also known as the Queens Path acts as a public access connecting cannught place on one side and Khan Market on the other.
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FUNCTIONAL DISTRIBUTION The National Archive, New Delhi
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The formal nature of the New Delhi plan as often complemented by structures disposed symmetrically in space the buildings are aligned in axis to movement lines and centrality is maintained in the placement of domes, spires and other elements in relation to building mass and plazas. This is particularly tru of the Central Vista, Where strict geometry is also observed on both sides of the green.
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The role of a National Archives From their establishment (national) archival institutions have a mandate to take care of archival records of government, that is, records that are appraised and identified as having archival value. Based on that responsibility archives have always had a special relationship with record creating organizations. The processes of appraisal and disposal/disposition were and still are common processes to achieve the selection of archival records. Usually this objective is supported by an archives act or regulations and the inherent assignment of respective responsibilities. In that position national archives often also took up an advising role, helping government agencies in properly organizing their records management. In a physical, paper-based environment this situation was more or less working, though an archives is very much dependent on what the record creating agencies produced. Although the mandate may differ in different jurisdictions, this is basically the situation around the world.
The real question here is whether archives are doing this merely to support their archival mission, or, in carrying out this role do they also recognize and act on their role in facilitating the management of current records for the purpose of good Government?
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National archive as the means to an open government The Main building will be included in the new design and the annex building will be demolished.The new design will act as an extension to the initial archive building trying to occupy a place on site, integrating itself with the existing fabric and at the same time creating a new and well defined identity so as to promote the concept and objectives of the archive, its cultural area and enhance its public function. The idea is to create an symbol of National memory using the Archives.
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