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- The Ministry of Electronics and IT will soon place before the Union Cabinet a ₹450 crore proposal for Natural Language Translation.
- It is one of the key missions identified by the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council(PM-STIAC).
- The mission aims to make science and technology accessible to all by facilitating access to teaching and researching material bilingually in English and in one’s native Indian language.
- To achieve this, the government plans to leverage a combination of machine translation and human translation.The mission would also help students, teachers, authors, publishers, translation software developers and general readers.
- To overcome the language barrier,the government has planned to set up an ecosystem which involved the Central and State agencies and start-ups.
- The Start-ups can help expedite the work to build implementable solutions to help make research.Further,the translation activities can also help generate employment for educated unemployed.
- Government had constituted a 21-member advisory panel on science,technology and innovation called Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council(PM-STIAC).
- The member panel consists of both permanent members and special invitees.The special invitees includes secretaries of all science & technology related ministries.
- The committee advises the Prime Minister on all matters related to S&T, innovation and monitor the implementation of PM’s vision on the same.
- The panel also facilitates the (a)formulation and implementation of policies and decisions (b)provide action-oriented and future preparedness advice and (c)assist in directing S&T to solve the socio economic problems in the country.
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