Monday, September 28, 2015

West Bengal Government Declassifies Pre-1947 Cabinet Files

West Bengal Government Declassifies Pre-1947 Cabinet Files

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Kolkata Police Commissioner Surajit Purkayastha at the release of the confidential files on Netaji at Kolkata Police Museum in Kolkata on Friday. (Press Trust of India photo)



Kolkata:  The West Bengal government today declassified 401 Cabinet files from the pre-independence era.

Announcing the declassification of the files which date from 1938 to Independence, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the files throw light on various historical decisions by the British government.


“From 1938 to 1947 is a very important period of Indian history and these files provide a lot of information about the cabinet decisions taken at the period.


“The hard as well as soft copies of the files are available in the state archive at the secretariat library and the Kolkata information centre,” she added.


The Mamata Banerjee government on September 18 made public 64 classified files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.


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