New Delhi, October 22: Government today reconstituted the Archival Advisory Board (AAB), the apex body to monitor the implementation and review the progress of the Public Records Act, by expanding the panel to include experts and academicians in equal proportion with equal status.
The Board, which will be headed by Culture Secretary Jawhar Sircar, will have Prof Partha Chatterjee, Prof Nayanjot Lahiri and Dr R K Perti as its non-official members.
Dr Shubha Chaudhury, Prof Majid H Siddiqui, Prof Biswanoy Pati, Prof Lakshmi Subramaniam, Prof Shahid Amin, Prof A R Venkatachalapathy and Prof Suranjan Das are special invitees of the Board, the Culture Ministry said in a statement.
“With this influx of professionalism and academic gravitas, it is expected that the AAB will more effectively play its role in revitalizing the archives as the storehouse and disseminator of our rich history and cultural heritage,” it said
–Agencies