Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-30 22:47:21|Editor: yan

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MUMBAI, June 30 (Xinhua) -- India has completed assessment of 132,000 film reels out of 150,000 reels of cinematic heritage as part of its National Film Heritage Mission (NFHM), said Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, on Sunday.

"Film condition assessment work of nearly 132,000 film reels has been completed and the preventive conservation work is underway. The work on digitization of film reels will commence soon," the minister said during his visit to National Film Archive of India, located at Pune, 150 km from Mumbai.

The broader objectives under NFHM also includes digitization of around 3,500 films, picture & sound restoration of around 2,000 landmark films of Indian cinema, construction of preservation and conservation facilities (vaults), training and workshops and creating a comprehensive web-based end to end IT solution.

NFHM was established with the task of fast-track preservation, conservation, digitization and restoration of the rapidly perishing condition of films and ancillary material in India by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.