In a significant step towards strengthening digital inclusion and expanding access to government procurement opportunities, the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) and the Government e Marketplace (GeM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to integrate advanced multilingual capabilities across India’s public procurement ecosystem.
The partnership, signed under the “BHASHINI for Seva/Sanchalan – A BHASHINI Sahayogi Program,” aims to leverage BHASHINI’s artificial intelligence-powered language technologies to make GeM’s services accessible in multiple Indian languages, thereby enabling greater participation from businesses, particularly micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), startups, entrepreneurs, and local enterprises across the country.
The collaboration seeks to promote multilingual governance, multilingual service delivery, and language-inclusive digital access by allowing users to interact with procurement services in their preferred languages. It will support seamless communication across all 22 officially recognised Indian languages and several other Indian languages through advanced voice-first technologies and generative AI solutions.
The Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) said the initiative is designed to eliminate language barriers that often limit participation in government procurement opportunities, especially for businesses operating in diverse linguistic regions of India. Read more
Source: DD News