When NAMAMI says "digitized" they don't mean "digitized".  They mean, "for which a bibliographical record has been created in our database". 

I would love to be corrected, but to the best of my knowledge, NAMAMI does not have a MS digitizing program. Only IGNCA has been doing that.  (And their database of the MSS they have photographed is separate.)

NAMAMI's database is based on field-surveys of MS holdings in various parts of India.  Their staff went out into villages and collected information on what people had.  This information was recorded on paper forms and later typed into the computer at head office.  These surveys have been considered as trials, not as a full-fledged program.

Thus, the NAMAMI program is a bit like the old surveys of Rajendralal Mitra and Haraprasad Shastri, published in the Notices series.  The MSS stayed in the villages, and the publications gave what we would today call metadata.  Today, mostly, only the metadata survives.

To get images of the MSS recorded by NAMAMI one has to communicate with the original owners of the MSS.  My attempts to do this through agents and colleagues have in all cases drawn blanks.

I have heard indirectly that NAMAMI field officers were paid per return, and that some officers returned more metadata sheets than appeared feasible given the hours that they worked.

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