MICROFILMING UNIT
Micrographic/Microfilming is an established method for preservation of rare and
deteriorating documents. Scientific
estimate indicates that the normal life expectancy of the microfilm, with
careful handling and storage, is 500 years (approx.) as compared to short life
span of digital media. Microfilming
is a legally accepted substitute for the original. In addition, it is protected
against viruses or worms and cannot be manipulated by the hackers.
It also has advantage over digital media in terms of capture cost, media
life, technological obsolescence and image quality.
For better
preservation and future use of the valuable documents/collections of Parliament
and its Library viz., Parliamentary
Debates, Papers Laid on the Table, Acts and Bills, Committee Reports, Private
Papers, Rare Books and Documents, Newspapers (bound volumes), Press Clippings,
Documents of Parliamentary Archives and other documents as decided from time to
time by the Secretariat, the Microfilming Unit was set up in 1987 as an integral
part of LARRDIS, Lok Sabha Secretariat. The latest available state of art
microfilming equipments and ancillaries were acquired for smooth functioning of
the Unit. The Unit is housed in the Parliament Library Building. All documents
were microfilmed on 16mm rolls,
except those of larger size like Papers Laid on the Table of the House, which
were microfilmed on 35mm film rolls.
The Unit has 1673
microfilm rolls having 33,06,526 exposures of the following documents:
Central
Legislative Debates/Proceeding, etc.
1.
Indian Legislative
Council Debates
:
02.01.1858 to 16.9.1920
2.
Central Legislative Assembly Debates
:
3.2.1921 to 12.4.1947
3.
Council of States Debates
:
3.2.1921 to 19.5.1954
4.
Constituent Assembly Debates (Legislative) :
17.11.1947 to 24.12.1949
5.
Constituent Assembly Debates
: 9.12.1946 to
24.1.1950
[(Draft making) (Hindi)]
6.
Constituent Assembly Debates
: 9.12.1946 to
24.1.1950
[(Draft making) (English)]
7.
Parliamentary Debates (Provisional
:
28.1.1950 to 13.5.1954
Parliament and House of the People)
8. Lok
Sabha Debates (Original Version)
:
14.05.1954 to 27.08.1984
9. Lok
Sabha Debates (Hindi)
:
15.01.1985 to 26.02.2009
(Translated Version)
10. Lok Sabha
Debates (English)
: 15.01.1985 to 04.08.2009
(Translated Version)
11. Rajya Sabha
Debates (Hindi)
: 15.2.1956 to 2.6.1995
(Translated Version)
12. Rajya Sabha
Debates (Original Version)
:
23.8.1954 to 25.3.2011
13.
Indices of Debates
:
(a)
Lok Sabha :
(i)
1952 to 1955
(ii)
1956 to 1958 (11.08.1958 to 27.09.1958 A to R)
(iii)
1959 to 1961
(iv)
06.08.1962 to 07.09.1962
(v)
08.11.1962 to 18.06.1966
(vi)
25.07.1966 to 30.08.1968, 11.11.1968 to 20.12.1968 (Part-I)
(vii)
11.11.1968 to 20.12.1968 (Part-II), 17.02.1969 to 04.09.1970, 09.11.1970 to
18.12.1970 (Part-I), 09.11.1970 to 18.12.1970 (Part-II)
(viii)
19.03.1971 to 16.05.1973, 23.07.1973 to 06.02.1976, 08.03.1976 to 23.12.1978
(ix)
19.02.1979 to 18.05.1979 (Part-IA to T), 19.02.1979 to 18.05.1979 (Part-I: T to
24.12.1981)
(x)
18.02.1982 to 27.08.1984
(xi)
15.01.1985 to 12.05.1987
(b)
Rajya Sabha & Council of States Debates: (Indexes)
(i)
1921 to 14.09. 1957
(ii)
8.11.1957 to 11.04.1967
(iii)
22.05.1967 to 23.12.1972
(iv)
1973 to 31.08.1978 (Part-I Subject Index)
(v)
17.07.1978 to 31.08.1978 (Name Index)
(vi)
20.11.1978 to 25.03.1983
14.
Parliamentary Committees:
(i) Committee
on Public Accounts :
1st Lok Sabha to 10th Lok Sabha
(Upto 31st Report)
(ii)
Committee on Estimates
:
1st Lok Sabha to 10th Lok Sabha
(Upto 18th Report)
(iii) Public
Undertakings Committee1 : 3rd Lok
Sabha to 10th Lok Sabha
(Upto 32nd Report)
(iv) Committee on
the Welfare of :
4th Lok Sabha to 10th Lok Sabha
SCs and STs2
(Upto 37th Report)
(v) Committee on
Subordinate
:
1st Lok Sabha to 8th Lok Sabha
Legislation
(Upto 21st Report)
(vi) Committee on
Government
:
1st Lok Sabha to 8th Lok Sabha
Assurance
(Upto 12th Report)
(vii) Committee on
Petitions
:
1st Lok Sabha to 10th Lok Sabha
(Upto 17th Report)
(viii) Railway Convention
Committee :
1943 to 14th Lok Sabha
(Upto 3rd Report)
(ix) Joint
Committee on Salaries :
1954 to 1989
and Allowances of MPs
(x) Committee on
Papers Laid :
5th Lok Sabha to 10th Lok Sabha
on the Table3
(Upto 12th Report)
(xi) Committee on
Empowerment :
12th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha
of Women4
(Upto 3rd Report)
15.
Reports of Departmentally Related
Standing Committees:
(i) Committee
on Petroleum & :
10th Lok Sabha to 12th Lok Sabha
Chemicals5
(Upto 8th Report)
(ii)
Committee on Defence6
:
10th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha
(Upto 4th Report)
(iii) Committee on
External Affairs7:
10th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha
(English)
(Upto 23rd report)
(iv) Committee on
External Affairs :
10th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha
(Hindi)
(Upto 23rd report)
(v) Committee on
Food Civil Supplies :
10th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha
and Public Distribution8
(Upto 8th report)
(vi) Committee on
Agriculture9
:
10th Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha
(English)
(Upto 30th report)
(vii) Committee on
Agriculture
: 10th
Lok Sabha to 14th Lok Sabha
(Hindi)
(Upto 30th report)
(viii) Committee on Water Resources10 : 14th Lok Sabha (Upto 5th report)
16. Constitution of
India (Calligraphic copy of the original)
(English and Hindi)
17. Presiding
Officers Conference
: 1921 to
20.3.2005
(Agenda, Proceedings, Resolutions,
Minutes)
18. Papers Laid on
the Table
:
1980-1986 (LT No.1/80 to 2308/86)
of the House (Lok Sabha)
19. O&M’s
Records :
(i)
Instructional Orders
:
No. 2 to 1193
(ii)
Annual Administrative
:
1960 to 2002
Reports
20. Library
Records:
(a) Accession
Register (purchase :
Upto Acc. No. 1,45,230
of books) of Acquisition Section,
LARRDIS
(b) Accession
Register (Copyright) :
Upto Acc. No. 52,080
of Acquisition Section, LARRDIS
(c)
Bills :
(i) Official
Bills introduced in
:
1921 to 1952
Central Legislative Assembly
(ii)
Government Bills introduced
:
1953 to 1992
in House of People/Lok Sabha
(iii) Government
Bills introduced
:
1953 to 1993
in Council of
States/Rajya Sabha
21. Rare Books11
:
1272
22. Decisions from
the Chair
: 1921 to March 1996
23. Observations
from the Chair
:
1950 to March 1996
24. Directions by
the Speaker
: 1st to 4th
Edition
25. Historical
Documents :
(i)
Indian Round Table Conference Proceedings; (1930-1932)
(ii)
Constituent Assembly of India; Constitutional Precedents 1947
(iii) Indian
Statutory Commission: Memoranda (1930)
(iv) Sardar
Patel’s Correspondence (1945 – 1950) (Vols.
I to X)
(v) Indian
Historical Records Commission-Proceedings (1920-1960)
(vi) Partition
Proceedings – Expert Committee No. I
(1947-1949) (2 Vols)
(vii) Indian Record
Series-Fort William-India House
Correspondence : Vols. II to IV and
other contemporary papers and Vols. VI to XXI
26. Publications
etc.:
(i)
Journal of Parliamentary
:
April 1955 to December 2007
Information
(ii)
Parliament of India :
1st to 10th Lok Sabha
(Souvenir)
(iii) Who’s Who,
Lok Sabha
:
1967-1999
(Hindi)
(iv) Who’s Who, Lok
Sabha
:
1950-1999
(English)
(v)
Who’s Who, Rajya Sabha
:
1970, 1972 & 1974
(Hindi)
(vi) Who’s Who,
Rajya Sabha
:
1952-2000
(English)
(vii)
Rajya Sabha Members’
:
1952-1990
Biographical Sketches
(viii) Reports of Indian
:
1950-1998
Parliamentary Group
27.
Parliamentary Museum & Archives Collections:
(i) Private
Papers of G.V. Mavalankar
:
200 pages
(ii) Private
Papers of Prof. N.G. Ranga
: 4919 pages
(iii) Private
Papers of Shri Jwala Prasad Jyotishi :
742 pages
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1
Public Undertakings Committee was initially
constituted on 1 May 1964 in 3rd Lok Sabha
2
Committee on Welfare of SCs and STs was initially constituted in November
1968 in 4th Lok Sabha.
3
Committee on Papers Laid on the Table was initially constituted on 1 June
1975 in 5th Lok Sabha.
4
Committee on empowerment of Women was initially constituted on 29 April
1997 in 11th Lok Sabha.
5,6,7,8,9 Committee on Petroleum & Chemicals; Defence; External Affairs; Food Civil Supplies & Public Distribution
and Agriculture
were
initially constituted on 8 April 1993 in 10th Lok Sabha.
10
Committee on Water Resources was initially constituted on 5th
August 2007 in 14th Lok Sabha.
11 All the books identified as rare books by the Parliament Library have been microfilmed.