The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) built to honor all Prime Minister rages, the memorial has decided to offer fellowship after the Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The POsitions that will be offered will incline for studying individual prime ministers and their various aspects presented in the Prime Minister’s Office.
The construction of a museum under the Teen Murti Complex is in motion. The Director of NMML Shakti Sinha also informed that positions offered will be for a period of two years. “The NMML presently has 32 fellows. This new fellowship will run for a period of two years like the other fellowships on offer,” he said.
The decision of offering fellowship was taken on Thursday by the executive council (EC) of the NMML. According to the council, the fellowships will be offering to pursue research in the fields of Recent Historical Trends and Developments, India in Transition: Issues and Challenges, and India and the Wider World. Also, the preference for offering fellowships will be given to those applicants who use the archival records of NMML for their research.
Sinha asserted the decision of the council to call on V K Krishna Menon who was a close aide to former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, “Shri Krishna Menon, former Defence Minister and close associate of Pt Nehru, passed away on October 6, 1974, and had bequeathed his personal papers to the nation. The executive council of NMML further decided to have a relook at all closed collections with a view to making them available to scholars. As a public instruction, NMML is committed to serving the academic community by facilitating their research efforts in different ways,” he said.
He added, “the NMML is also looking into persuading donors to allow opening up other closed collections, such as those of former RAW chief R N Kao, renowned writer Nayantara Sahgal, and former Karnataka Chief Minister K Hanumanthiah.”