India, Jan. 18 -- New Delhi: Journalists and researchers are complaining about the complicated bureaucratic process to access crucial archives from the National Archives Museum in the national capital.

Journalists or any researcher have to go through a long process of permissions from the Central Committee on Archives, followed by an official letter from the Institute or the media organisation stating clearly the motive and the objective of the research and the purpose of accessing such archived documents.

A journalist from a leading newspaper told The Sunday Guardian that the government has made accessing public documents so complicated that it demotivates people from carrying out research. "I had gone to access an important document f...