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:
- Launch Year: 2022
- Objective: A government program designed to provide AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for translation and digital services in Indian languages.
- Developed By: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
- Purpose: To break language barriers in accessing digital services by offering publicly available AI and NLP tools.
Key Features:
- Local Language Translation Mission: Enables smooth multilingual communication.
- Open AI and NLP Resources: Available for Indian MSMEs, startups, and innovators.
- Ecosystem Development: Focuses on maintaining data repositories, open models, and tools.
- Bhashadaan Crowdsourcing Platform: Encourages linguistic dataset contributions through Suno India, Likho India, Bolo India, and Dekho India.
- Accessibility: Offered via an online platform and mobile apps.
