TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy has directed officials of SV Manuscript Project to sign MoUs with Sri Venkateswara Vedic and National Sanskrit Universities for digitization of all the available ancient scripts in palm leaf format.
Addressing a review meeting at SV Vedic University premises on Thursday, the EO said those already digitized should be published for society’s benefit by hiring the required number of scholars for the task.
He asked officials to speed up the procurement of the manuscripts scanner offered by Sri Shashidhar of Sanatana Jeevan Trust and prepare a six months action plan for acquiring the manuscripts.
Among others, he instructed officials to prepare software to decipher the missing words and sentences in the manuscripts and also complete the scanning of 1000 bundles of manuscripts among the pending lot in the next six months.
JEO (H&E) Sri Smt Sada Bhargavi, VC of SVV University Acharya Rani Sadashiv Murty, Manuscript Project Special Officer Smt Vijay Lakshmi, University Registrar Acharya Radhe Shyam were also present.
