Digital India Bhashini Division Hosts Multilingual AI Workshop for Haryana Assembly
UPSC / SSC current affairs note · Governance
Why in news
The Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD) under MeitY organized a multilingual AI workshop for Haryana Vidhan Sabha officials to promote language-inclusive legislative governance. The workshop showcased AI-driven language technologies to enhance accessibility and citizen-centricity in legislative processes.
Background
Digital India Bhashini is a government initiative to build a language-first digital public infrastructure (DPI) for India, enabling access to digital services in multiple Indian languages. It develops AI-based language tools like ASR, NMT, TTS, OCR, and transliteration.
Key facts
Workshop organized by Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD) under Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) for Haryana Vidhan Sabha Secretariat officials.
Focused on multilingual AI technologies to strengthen language-based legislative governance.
Demonstrated AI tools: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), transliteration, and multilingual APIs.
Live demos of multilingual speech recognition, translation, transcription, and document-based techniques were conducted.
Aimed at improving multilingual access to official documents, enabling voice-based dialogue, and making legislative information accessible to citizens in their language.
CEO of DIBD, Shri Amitabh Nag, emphasized the role of indigenous language technologies in transforming governance.
Haryana Vidhan Sabha Secretary Shri Rajiv Prasad highlighted that AI tools must enhance accuracy, efficiency, and transparency without compromising official records.
The workshop is part of Bhashini's commitment to promote adoption of AI-driven language technologies in public institutions.
Prelims pointers
- Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD)
- Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
- Digital India Corporation (DIC)
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Neural Machine Translation (NMT)
- Text-to-Speech (TTS)
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Haryana Vidhan Sabha
Mains angles
- Role of AI in making legislative governance inclusive and citizen-centric
- Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and language technology in India
- Challenges and opportunities in implementing multilingual AI in government processes