Digital India BHASHINI Division Organises Workshop at Maharashtra Mantralaya; Advances Multilingual AI for Inclusive Digital Governance

The Digital India BHASHINI Division, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, organized a workshop at Maharashtra Mantralaya to advance multilingual AI and inclusive digital governance. The workshop highlighted BHASHINI's speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech capabilities, and emphasized the role of crowd-sourcing via BhashaDaan in enriching language data for Marathi and other Indian languages. Discussions explored department-specific Language AI integrations, priority use cases, and a proposed MahaBHASHINI concept to enhance public services such as tourism and transport. BHASHINI currently supports multiple Indian text and voice languages, powering numerous government websites and AI inferences as part of national Digital Public Infrastructure.