Current Affairs Question - 06 August 2019

Explanation :

• On 6^th August, 2019, the Delhi government launched a project that seeks to record oral histories of the city as told by its senior citizens.
• Titled ‘Oral History Programme’, the project aims to document the history of the city from the perspective of its inhabitants.
• The project, undertaken by Delhi Archives in collaboration with Ambedkar University, is an attempt to democratize knowledge by recording stories told by hundreds of common people in Delhi from different strata of society over the next two years.
• It was in the ‘80s that the Delhi Archives department first began an oral history project by interviewing 56 personalities about the city, its history and changing nature.

Source: Civil Services Chronicle Online