What is the digital India program, Bhashini?

Bhashini, the Digital India initiative seeks to make easy access to digital services and the internet possible in the languages of India. This includes voice-based access. The initiative boosts content creation in Indian languages. The initiative was launched at Gandhinagar, Gujarat in 2022 in the month of August. Bhashini is actually an abbreviation for Bhasha Interface for India.

Here is everything you need to know about the Digital India Bhashini initiative.

Vision of Bhashini

The vision of the Digital India Bhashini initiative is to make use of natural language technologies to bring about a diverse ecosystem of contributors and make citizens and entities partners to transcend language barriers, and thus ensure digital empowerment and digital inclusion in Bharat.

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Aims of Bhashini

The Digital India Bhashini initiative aims to empower the citizens of India by making them connect with the Digital Initiative of India in their very own language, which will further lead to digital inclusion.

The initiative aims to bring about a National Public Digital Platform for languages for the purpose of developing products and services for citizens by making use of artificial intelligence and other evolving technologies.

The initiative also aims to enhance the content in the languages of India on the Internet, majorly in the public interest domains, especially in science and technology, governance and policy, and more, therefore encouraging the citizens of India to make use of the Internet in their very own language.

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Some features of the initiative

The Digital Initial Bhashini initiative is a special one. The initiative shall involve the evolution of a national digital public platform for languages to offer universal access to internet content. This means that the initiative will foster the delivery of digital content in all the languages of India. This very factor will lead to the development of a society that is knowledge-based, wherein the information is readily and freely available. This very feature will further make the citizens and the ecosystem of India "Atmanirbhar".

An interesting feature of the initiative is that the citizens of the country will be given easy tools and will be encouraged to contribute in the direction of their desired languages via the crowd-sourcing platform of BHASHINI. These people will be the prime beneficiaries of the BHASHINI initiative.

What comes as a robust move is that the startups of the country are going to be motivated to come up with innovative and unique applications with the help of BHASHINI's resources.

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