Milestones field list
| Milestone description | Milestone Date |
|---|---|
| Imperial Record Department came into existence at Calcutta with Prof.G.W. Forrest appointed as Officer in charge. | 11 March 1891 |
| The Building Plan for the Department at Delhi was Sanctioned. | 12 October 1912 |
| The first session of Indian historical Records Commission, (IHRC) a consultative body of the department was held at Shimla. | 19-20 June 1919 |
| Sir Rai Bahadur Jamini Mitra, first Indian, was placed as head of the department. | 1919 |
| The office was opened at New Delhi in the present building. | 1 November 1926 |
| The transfer of Records from Calcutta to New Delhi was completed. | March 1937 |
| Bonafide Scholars was permitted to consult pre 1859 records. | 1939 |
| A Conservation Research Laboratory (CRL) was established. | 1940 |
| The publication programme in the department was taken up. | 1942 |
| Systematic survey of Private Archives was initiated at the behest of the Indian Historical Records Commission (IHRC) | 1942 |
| A formal course in Archival training was launched. | 1943 |
| The Department Joumal The Indian Archives came into existence. | 1947 |
| The name of department was changed from Imperial Record Department to National Archives of India. | 30 August 1947 |
| A project for obtaining Microfilm copies of documents of Indian Interest from various repositories in the world. | 1948 |
| Hand lamination Technique for the repair of fragile documents was developed. | 1951 |
| Personal files of the great Mathematician, S. Ramanujam were received. | 1952 |
| National Committee of Archivists was set up. | 1953 |
| Regional office, Bhopal was set up | 1956 |
| Historical Document Purchase Committee was constituted | 1957 |
| Archival Legislation Committee was appointed by Government of India under the chairmanship of Dr. Tarachand for the systemic retirement of records. | 1959 |
| A pilot project of Records Management to help various agencies of Government of India to relieve them of their burden of Ephemeral Records was taken up. | 1962 |
| Historical research rules for access to records were notified. | 1970 |
| Archival Policy Resolution was adopted. | December 1972 |
| On the occasion of Silver jubilee celebrations of India's Independence MARCH TOWARD FREEDOM exhibition was organized for public viewing. | February 1973 |
| South west Asia Regional Branch of International Council on Archives (SWARBICA) was established. | 1976 |
| Report of Records Management Committee was submitted. | 1 June 1976 |
| Institute of Archives Training was set up in separate premises. | December 1976 |
| Records Centre, jaipur came in to existence. | 1977 |
| First Archives Week was celebrated. | 7-13 August 1978 |
| Record Centre, Pondicherry came in to existence. | 1979 |
| Any adult Indian was allowed access to non-current records. | 1982 |
| The Director of Archives was re- designated as Director General of Archives | June 1990 |
| Department completed one hundred years | 11 March 1991 |
| The Public Records Act 1993 was passed | 1993 |
| Record Centre, Bhubanesawr came in to existence. | 1 March 1996 |
| The Public Records Rules 1997 were notified | 1997 |
| An Archives Museum was inauguated by Shri K.R. Narayanan Hon'ble President of India for general public. | 6 July 1998 |
| Digitization work was taken up in the department. | 1998 |
| The curtain raiser of the 125th foundation year celebration was launched. A logo of 125th foundation year celebration was also released. | 11 March 2015 |
| 100 declassified files of Netaji were released bu the Hon'ble Prime Minister and a web portal netejipapers.gov.in was also launched. | 23 January 2016 |
| Grand finale of the culmination of the yearlong celebration of 125th Foundation year of National Archives of India | 7-11 March 2016 |
| A total of 303 declassified files reporting to Netaji was put in Delhi domain | 28 oct 2016 |
| Swachhagraha: Bapu ko Karyanjali an exhibition commemorating 100 years of champaran satyagraha was inaugurated by Hon'ble Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi | 10 April 2017 |
| Sabarmati shalabdi: Ek karyanjali an exhibition on the occasion of completion of 100 years of sabarmati ashram was put up in collaboration with sabarmati ashram in ahmedabad | 29 May 2017 |