{"id":107105,"date":"2026-06-07T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=107105"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:04:58","slug":"digital-india-bhashini-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/digital-india-bhashini-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital India BHASHINI Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Digital India BHASHINI Division Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kathmandu University&#8217;s Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure &amp; Artificial Intelligence (DPI-AI), Nepal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Digital India BHASHINI Division<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>under Digital India Corporation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (DIC), <\/span><b>Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is India\u2019s national initiative for <\/span><b>AI-driven multilingual digital inclusion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and language technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the <\/span><b>National Hub for Language Technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NHLT), BHASHINI enables scalable <\/span><b>speech and text-based AI services<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across Indian languages for governance, public platforms, and institutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DIBD also drives <\/span><b>open-source innovation, multilingual AI research<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, dataset creation, startup enablement, and academic collaboration, strengthening India\u2019s digital public infrastructure ecosystem.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-bhashini-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bhashini Platform<\/strong><\/a> is making Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSMEs, Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform powers over 800 government websites, processes more than 15 million inferences daily, and supports 36 Indian text languages, 23 Indian voice languages, and 35 international languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2269899&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" 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