Hyderabad, April 10 -- The Legislative Assembly of Punjab has achieved a first of its kind. It has gone live with digital access to the public of all its archives from 1947.

Using a search engine, people can now browse the archives for selected debates and discussions held in the Vidhan Soudha (Legislative Assembly) easily. In 2023, the entire digitisation work was completed under the Punjab Digital Library Project.

The unique search engine was developed by a consortium consisting of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, under the guidance of Prof. Gurpreet Lehal, Consultant, Punjabi University, and Prof. C.V. Jawahar, IIITH, along with Punjabi University, Patiala, and C-DAC, Noida.

The project is an initiat...