Bhashini

Context: The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), is currently building a WhatsApp-based chatbot return appropriate responses to queries.

About Bhashini:

• It is India’s AI led language translation platform.
• It will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSMEs, Startups and Individual Innovators in the public domain.
• It will create and nurture an ecosystem involving Central/State government agencies and start-ups, working together to develop and deploy innovative products and services in Indian languages.

Aims and Objectives:

• It aims to increase the content in Indian languages on the Internet substantially in the domains of public interest, particularly, governance-and-policy, science and technology, etc. , thus will encourage citizens to use the Internet in their own language.
• It aims to build a National Public Digital Platform for languages to develop services and products for citizens by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Source: The Indian Express.

Previous Year Question

Q.1) Which of the following is/are the aim/aims of “Digital India” Plan of the Government of India? (2018)

1. Formation of India’s own Internet companies like China did.
2. Establish a policy framework to encourage overseas multinational corporations that collect Big Data to build their large data centres within our national geographical boundaries.
3. Connect many of our villages to the Internet and baring Wi-Fi to many of our schools, public places and major tourist centres.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 3 only
3. 2 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3

Q.2) Consider the following statements :

1. Aadhaar metadata cannot be stored for more than three months.
2. State cannot enter into any contract with private corporations for sharing of Aadhaar data.
3. Aadhaar is mandatory for obtaining insurance products.
4. Aadhaar is mandatory for getting benefits funded out of the Consolidated Fund of India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (2020)

1. 1 and 4 only
2. 2 and 4 only
3. 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3 only