The Punjab government will start digitalization project for comprehensive preservation of governmental archives spreading over 400 years of Punjab's rich history and having a great cultural and administrative importance. The completion of this project will enable the new entrants in civil service, students and research scholars to get easy access to the legally permissible parts of official documents for chalking out a better strategy to accelerate the pace of progress in the province.
In this connection, Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja issued a directive here on Tuesday during a meeting with Provincial Secretary Archives and Libraries Punjab Tahir Yousaf. On the occasion, Shamail Ahmad Khawaja said the province of Punjab possesses a rich heritage of administrative innovations to promote cultural-goodness as well as fiscal growth. "We feel pride in having a rich treasure-trove of archives from the year 1629 to 2005, which include the Mughal dynasty starting from Emperor Shah Jahan to the last Mughal Emperor Bahadar Shah Zafar.