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News: The Union Minister of Labour and Employment has launched the Bhashini enabled e-shram portal in all 22 scheduled languages to benefit unorganised workers.
About Bhashini Initiative
- It is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven tool that aims to transcend language barriers by ensuring that every citizen has access to digital services in their own language.
- It provides technology translation services in 22 scheduled Indian languages.
- The initiative was launched in July 2022 under the National Language Technology Mission.
- It has been developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- Salient Features:
- Development of a national digital public platform for language to provide universal access to content.
- Make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available in the public domain to be used by Indian MSMEs, startups and individual innovators.
- Promotes citizen engagement to build multilingual datasets through a crowd sourcing initiative called Bhasha Daan.
- People can contribute to Bhashadaan through Suno India, Likho India, Bolo India, Dekho India.
