Rs 61 lakh in corpus, BORI back on track

After the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute was ransacked on January 5, 2004, the city opened its purse strings to offer financial help...

After the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute was ransacked on January 5, 2004, the city opened its purse strings to offer financial help to rebuild the institute. Today, the Rs 61 lakh that poured in from several quarters has been set aside by BORI authorities as a corpus.

Announcing this yesterday, BORI director Saroj Bhate said the institute will now build a protection wall around its 13-acre campus since the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had failed to build one as promised a year ago.

Last year, the state gave Rs 10 lakh and Mayor Dipti Chowdhary promised that the civic body would build the wall. However, Bhate said, ‘‘On Monday, I came to know that the civic body has no plans to build the wall.’’ She added that the Centre’s aid, too, had not arrived.

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But the positive news is that BORI is back on track with new projects. Research scholars are busy with a European Commission-funded project on ancient Asian manuscripts. It involves institutes from France, Italy and Nepal, and the analysis will be computerised.

On January 5, 2004, as a reaction to James Laine’s book on Chhatrapati Shivaji, the Sambhaji Brigade had ransacked the institute.

Bhate said while the library, books and furniture were restored soon, the institute continued with its work of publishing books and holding lectures. Fumigation of around 6,000 pages of Persian manuscripts was complete while the process of re-inking some was on.

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