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and to make aware the teaching community and others about the importance of the manuscripts lying in known and unknown places and sources.
To create the awareness for collection, cataloguing and preservation of Manuscripts the press conferences were arranged before and during the National Workshop.The day to day programmes on workshop and its details were covered and published by the local dailies with vide coverage in Gujarat. The scholars' interviews about the need to preserve manuscripts were also published. The major Gujarati dailies like Gujarat Samachar, Divya Bhaskar, Jansatta, Sandesh, Sambhav etc. published the press conference deliberations in details in their editions which are circulated in Gujarat. English Dailies like the Times of India and Asian Age also took a note of the Press conferences. The dailies published the notes of our workshop. T.V. coverage of the activities of Manuscript Section and of the National Workshop on Manuscriptology and Paleography was done and it was telecast in the regional round up of Doordarshan several times. The coverage also contained the interviews of the following persons.
(1) Dr. Jitendra B. Shah - Director (2) Prof. K. M. Patel, Hon. Professor and Advisor R & D
Laxmanbhai Bhojak - Manuscript Expert
Dr. Preeti Pancholi - Manuscript Expert (5) Col. D. S. Baya, Research Officer (6) Prof. Kanubhai Shah - Co-ordinator
This workshop, of two week's duration, was attended by some 45 participants from twenty four Manuscripts Resource Centres, universities and colleges from the state of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The participants were imparted instruction in the disciplines such as -
Survey & cataloguing of manuscripts Careful handling of old and fragile manuscripts. Reading of manuscripts written in such ancient scripts as Brahmi, Sharda and Old Nagari Editing of manuscripts. Restoration and Preservation of Mss, etc.
Reading of rock-inscriptions. The workshop was a great success.
