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What is the News?
The Ministry of Education has launched a campaign ‘Bhasha Certificate Selfie’ to encourage cultural diversity and promote multilingualism and foster the spirit of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.
What is Bhasha Certificate Selfie Initiative?
Aim: To promote Bhasha mobile app by encouraging people to upload their selfies with the certificate from their social media accounts using the hashtag #BhashaCertificateSelfie.
The initiative aims to ensure that people acquire basic conversational skills in Indian languages. To achieve this, a target of 75 lakh people acquiring basic conversational skills has been set.
What is Bhasha Sangam mobile app?
Developed by: It is a mobile application developed by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with MyGov India.
Aim: To foster the spirit of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat by enabling people across India to learn different languages of different states of India and come closer to their culture.
Using the app, people can learn 100+ sentences of daily use in as many as 22 scheduled Indian languages.
Source: This post is based on the article “Ministry of Education launches Bhasha Certificate Selfie campaign” published in PIB on 26th February 2022.
