NATIONAL MISSION FOR MANUSCRIPTS

• NMM, established 2003 under the Ministry of Culture, is India's apex body for survey, documentation, conservation and digitisation of manuscripts; it functions as a unit of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA).
• In 2024-25 it was restructured and subsumed into the Gyan Bharatam Mission, a Central Sector Scheme to scale up to >1 crore manuscripts held in institutions, libraries, museums and private collections.
• Examinable for UPSC under Culture (GS-I) and Government Schemes / Heritage Governance (GS-II) — a fresh, news-driven static-plus-current topic.