• The National Portal and Digital Repository for Museums of India are designed and developed by C-DAC, Pune. 

• It provides an all pervasive and integrated access to theme-based collections and artefacts irrespective of the physical and geographical locations of museums. 

• The virtual museums are a wealth of knowledge accessible from anywhere and at any time for students, teachers, researchers and tourists. 

• The digital collections are created using ‘Jatan Virtual Museum Builder’ software.

• They are integrated in the national digital repository for giving public access through the national portal.

• The portal was inaugurated on October 21, 2014.

• Jatan provides virtual access to any artefacts on display or in the reserve collection of the museums. 

• Having a digital record not only for external use but for keeping data for internal use such as tracking its location, conservation details, etc. 

• Jatan Virtual Museum Builder is the software being used for digitising records of antiquities that are displayed in a common portal for the public view. 

• It enables upkeep, research and making antiquities of Indian museums more accessible and visible to the world.

• In the first phase this project, Ministry of Culture decided to implement Jatan software in the following 10 national museums:

i) National Museum, New Delhi

ii) Indian Museum, Kolkata

iii) Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

iv) National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA), New Delhi

v) National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA), Mumbai

vi) National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA), Bengaluru

vii) Allahabad Museum, Prayagraj

viii) Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad

ix) Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Museum, Nagarjunakonda, Andhra Pradesh

x) Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Museum, Goa.

• Under the Jatan initiative, all the antiquities of Archaeological Site Museum Goa and Nagarjunkonda have been fully digitised, Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said in a written reply in Lok Sabha on August 11.

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