In news– A brainstorming session was recently organized by MeiTY on Mission Digital India BHASHINI – [BHASHa INterface for India] – the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM).
About BHASHINI-
- The National Language Translation Mission (NLTM) was announced in the 2021-21 budget by the Finance Minister.
- This mission aims to empower Indian citizens by connecting them to the Digital Initiatives of the country in their own language thereby leading to digital inclusion.
- 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 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.
- The Bhashini platform is interoperable and will catalyse the entire Digital Ecosystem.
- It will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSMEs, Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.
- All contributions to Bhashini shall be validated and standardized using a Unified Language Contribution API (ULCA).
- Both individual contributions (through a crowdsourcing portal) or institutional contribution (directly via APIs) will be encouraged.
- The different stakeholders of Bhashini shall be Ministries / Departments, State and Language Missions, Startups, Private companies with large digital reach, MSMEs, Data collection and curation companies, Publishers and Citizens.
Source: PIB
