GYAN BHARATAM MISSION

• Gyan Bharatam Mission (GBM) is a flagship initiative of the Ministry of Culture to survey, conserve, digitise and disseminate India's manuscript heritage, announced in Union Budget 2025-26.
• Aspirants must master it for GS-I (Indian Culture) and GS-II (Government Schemes); it operationalises India's "knowledge sovereignty" agenda by reclaiming 10+ million manuscripts as a living legacy.
• It absorbs / scales up the earlier National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM, 2003) into a mission-mode programme with a sanctioned outlay of ₹491.66 crore for 2025-2031.