Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
( 1 ) The State Government shall have the power to co-ordinate, regulate and supervise the operations connected with the administration, management, preservation, selection, disposal and retirement of public records under this Act. ( 2 ) The State Government in relation to the public records of the records creating agencies specified in clause ( h ) of section 2 may, by order, authorise the Director, subject to such condition as may be specified in the order, to carry out all or any of the following functions, namely :- ( a ) supervision, management and control of the Archives ; (b) acceptance for deposit of public records of permanent nature after such period as may be prescribed ; ( c ) custody, use and withdrawal of public records ; ( d ) arrangement, preservation and exhibition of public records ; ( e ) preparation of inventories, indices, catalogues and other reference media of public records ; ( f ) analysing, developing, promoting and co-ordinating the standards, procedures and techniques for improvement of the records management system ; ( g ) ensuring the maintenance, arrangement and security to public records in the Department of Archives and in the offices of the records creating agency ; ( h ) promoting utilisation of available space and maintenance of equipments for preserving public records ; ( i ) tending advice to records creating agencies on the compilation, classification and disposal of records and application of standards, procedures and techniques of records management ; ( j ) survey and inspection of public records ; ( k ) organising training programmes in various disciplines of Archives administration and records management ; ( l ) accepting records from any private source ; ( m ) regulating access to public records ; ( n ) receiving records from defunct bodies and making arrangement for securing public records in the event of national emergency ; ( o ) receiving reports on records management and disposal practices from the records officer ; ( p ) providing authenticated copies of, or extracts from, public records ; ( q ) destroying or disposal of public records ; ( r ) obtaining on lease or purchasing or accepting as gift any document of historical or national importance.