Mahatma Gandhi, an inspiration to successive generations: Arun Jaitley

The Minister also uplinked the e-version on the Gandhi Heritage Portal, a comprehensive repository of authentic Gandhiana. 

The portal hosts e-CWMG in a searchable pdf format to ensure easy and free accessibility of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi for people across the world. On the occasion, Jaitley also announced that the Hindi version of the monumental work CWMG (Sampoorna Gandhi Vangmaya)would be digitized soon. Minister of State (I&B), Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Secretary (I&B),Sunil Arora and Members of the Expert Committee were present on the occasion. 

Speaking on the occasion, Jaitley said the intrinsic and heritage value of the e-CWMG Project had the collaboration and partnership of institutions that have been founded and nurtured by Gandhiji himself. 

Jaitley said that this digitized version of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi  would be instrumental in  preserving the valuable national heritage and disseminating it for all humankind.

Jaitley also mentioned that the Mahatma was a true visionary, whose thought process had touched various facets of human life. 

His understanding of a wide range of issues had enabled the creation of a moral environment which in the long run forced the British to leave India. 

His writings had been inspirational in weaving humanity together. 

The documentation of his work through an e-version was truly inspirational for followers on the e-platform. At the same time it was a truly collectors’ item available to all followers of Gandhiji’s philosophy.

 The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG), published by the Publications Division, is a monumental document of Gandhiji’s words which he spoke and wrote in the period 1884 to 1948. In this series, his writings, scattered all over the world, have been collected and constructed ethically and with stringent academic discipline and loyalty.

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi took about 38 years in the making (1956-1994). They are a series of one hundred volumes, running into over 55,000 pages, intricately connected across the series, as an integrated whole. 

The CWMG-original-KS-edition volumes were published in the years 1956 to 1994.The Electronic Master Copy (Volumes 1 to 100) recently prepared is in the form of a searchable PDF beta version, matched with the original-KS-edition fully verified with the original source-documents. It retains the original architecture – volume structure, font structure, line structure, page structure – including its visual look – fully and loyally.