BHASHINI

Recently, the Ministry of Electronics and IT conducted a brainstorming session with Researchers and Start-ups aimed to shape strategy for Digital India BHASHINI [BHASHa INterface for India].
The government intends to integrate start-ups’ innovation, development and consumption of technology.
Digital India BHASHINI is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)led language translation platform.
A Bhashini Platform will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSME (Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises) Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.
Bhashini Platform is a part of the National Language Translation Mission.
The mission aims to ensure that as more Indians connect to the internet, they are able to access global content in their own languages.

Significance:

It will empower Indian citizens by connecting them to the Digital Initiatives of the country in their own language thereby leading to digital inclusion.
It will also encourage participation of startups.
Mission 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.
It also 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.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT

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