Source: PIB
Context: The e-Shram portal, designed to provide social security and welfare benefits to unorganized workers, has now been upgraded with multilingual functionality across all 22 scheduled languages, leveraging the Bhashini initiative.
About Bhashini Initiative:
- Launched in: 2022.
- What it is: A government initiative aimed at providing AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for translation and digital services in Indian languages.
- Developed By: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
- Aim: To eliminate language barriers in accessing digital services by making AI and NLP tools publicly available.
- Features:
- Local Language Translation Mission for seamless multilingual communication.
- Open AI and NLP resources for Indian MSMEs, startups, and innovators.
- Ecosystem development for maintaining data repositories, open models, and tools.
- “Bhashadaan” crowdsourcing platform for contributing to linguistic datasets via Suno India, Likho India, Bolo India, and Dekho India
- Accessible through an online platform and dedicated mobile apps.
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