Digital Cultural Governance and Monitoring of Cultural Initiatives

• Umbrella push by Ministry of Culture (MoC) to digitise manuscript heritage, monument/antiquity records, museum collections and scheme-monitoring through a suite of web portals and dashboards.
• Combines conservation + accessibility + real-time scheme tracking, anchored in flagship programmes like the Gyan Bharatam Mission and National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA).
• UPSC relevance: cuts across GS-I (Indian Heritage & Culture), GS-II (governance, e-governance) and GS-III (IT applications).