Netaji files: 25 declassified documents to be released today

The Centre will release the next batch of 25 declassified files relating to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the national capital on Friday.

Last month, Minister of State for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation, Mahesh Sharma, had released a second batch of 50 declassified files relating to Netaji. The documents consisted of ten files each from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Home Ministry, and 30 files from Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) pertaining to the period 1956 to 2009.

The first lot of 100 files relating to Netaji was put in the public domain by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 23 this year on the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji. 

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.