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What is the News?
The Union Education Minister has launched the Bhasha Sangam Initiative for schools, Bhasha Sangam Mobile App and Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Quiz App.
What is the Bhasha Sangam Initiative for schools?
Bhasha Sangam is an initiative of the Ministry of Education under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.
Aim: To teach school students basic sentences of everyday usage in 22 Indian languages.
Significance: This will help students to acquire basic conversational skills in an Indian language other than their mother tongue.
What is Bhasha Sangam Mobile App?
It is an initiative of the Department of Higher Education(DoHE) in collaboration with MyGov.
The App initially has 100 sentences of everyday usage in 22 Indian languages. These sentences are available in both Roman script and in the script of the given language and also in audio format.
Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Quiz App
It is a quiz game targeted toward children and youngsters for helping them learn more about our different regions, states, culture, national Heroes, monuments, traditions, tourist locations, languages, geography, history and topography.
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Source: This post is based on the article “Union Education Minister launches Bhasha Sangam initiative for schools, Bhasha Sangam Mobile App and Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Mobile Quiz” published in PIB on 1st November 2021
