Centre to release 25 declassified files on Netaji today

New Delhi: The Centre will release the next batch of 25 declassified files relating to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the national capital today.

Last month, Minister of State for Tourism, Culture and Civil Avialtion, Mahesh Sharma, had released second batch of fifty declassified files relating to Netaji. The documents consisted of ten files each from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Home Ministry, and 30 files from Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) pertaining to the period 1956 to 2009.

First lot of 100 files relating to Netaji was put in the public domain by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 23rd January this year on the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji.

The release of these files will further meet the continued public demand to access these files and this will also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on the doyen of the freedom movement. (ANI)