About BHASHINI Platform
- BHASHINI Platform: A national public digital platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to build speech and text translation solutions for public governance and industry adoption.
- Launched: July 2022 (during Digital India Week, Gandhinagar).
- Key Objectives:
- Scheme & Service Accessibility: Enable voice-first digital access to government welfare schemes for non-English speaking and non-literate citizens.
- Open Digital Commons: Provide startups, MSMEs, developers, and researchers open access to language datasets and pre-trained AI translation models.
- Local Language Content Expansion: Substantially increase internet content in Indian regional languages across public policy, healthcare, education, and science domains.
- Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
- Executing Body: Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD), an Independent Business Division set up under the Digital India Corporation (DIC)
BHASHINI and National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)
- BHASHINI is associated with the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM).
- The mission seeks to build a digital ecosystem that allows people to access the internet and digital services in their own languages.
- It promotes the development of language datasets, AI models and language-based digital tools.
Conclusion
BHASHINI represents an important step towards an inclusive and multilingual Digital India by breaking language barriers and making digital services accessible to citizens in their preferred languages.
| This concept has been elaborately discussed in the following article: e-Shram Portal |