Digital India BHASHINI

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• Recently, MeitY  organised a brainstorming session on Mission Digital India BHASHINI – [BHASHa INterface for India] – the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM).

Digital India BHASHINI 

• About:
  • It is India’s AI led language translation platform.
  • It will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSMEs, Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.  
  • It is interoperable and will catalyse the entire Digital Ecosystem. It is a giant step to realise the goal of Digital Government.
  • It will create and nurture an ecosystem involving Central/State government agencies and start-ups, working together to develop and deploy innovative products and services in Indian languages.
• Aims and Objectives: 
  • It aims to increase the content in Indian languages on the Internet substantially in the domains of public interest, particularly, governance-and-policy, science & technology, etc. , thus will encourage citizens to use the Internet in their own language.
  • It aims to build a National Public Digital Platform for languages to develop services and products for citizens by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Source:PIB