The next trance of 25 declassified files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be released in New Delhi today.<br/><br/>Last month, the Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma had released 50 declassified files relating to the leader and the files are available on web portal www.netajipapers.gov.in.<br/>Our correspondent reports that 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>In October last year, Mr Modi had met the family members of Netaji and announced that the government will declassify the files relating to the leader whose disappearance 70 years ago remains a mystery.<br/><br/>While two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August, 1945 and a third probe panel, headed by Justice MK Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose was alive.
News On AIR | April 29, 2016 7:05 AM
25 declassified files on Netaji to be released today