On the occasion of birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the digital copies of 100 files relating to him tomorrow. Mr Modi in his meeting with a delegation of members of Netaji's family at his residence on 14th of October last year, had announced that the centre would declassify the files relating to Netaji and make them accessible to public. The first lot of 33 files was declassified by the Prime Minister's Office and handed over to the National Archives on 4th of last month.<br/><br/>Tourism Ministry in a release said, declassification of files will meet the long-standing public demand to access these files and also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on Netaji. The National Archives has placed these files in public domain after preliminary conservation treatment and digitization. It further plans to release digital copies of 25 declassified files on Netaji in public domain every month.<br/><br/>AIR correspondent reports that in 1997 the National Archives had received 990 declassified files pertaining to the Indian National Army from Defence Ministry. In 2012, it received 1030 files and items pertaining to Khosla Commission and Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry from Home Ministry. All these files and items are already open to the public under the Public Records Rules, 1997.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the digital copies of 100 files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra bose tomorrow on the occasion of his birth anniversary. <br/><br/>This will meet the long-standing public demand to access these files and also facilitate scholars to carry out further research on Netaji.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will declassify some of the secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose tomorrow, the birth anniversary of the legendary freedom fighter. Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said a small gathering of people, including family members of Netaji and some leaders, would attend the event.<br/><br/>On October 14 last year, Mr Modi had promised to declassify Subhas Chandra Bose files when he met 35 members of Netaji's family at his official residence in New Delhi. The demand for declassification of secret files with the Centre had gathered momentum, especially after the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal had declassified 64 files in its possession.