Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India signed Memorandum of Understanding with Kathmandu University's Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence (DPI-AI), Nepal
MoU signed by Shri Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India BHASHINI Division and Prof. Bal Krishna Bal, Associate Dean, Kathmandu University
Exchange took place in presence of Dr. S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India, and Shri Shishir Khanal, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal
Collaboration focuses on advancing Language AI, multilingual digital public infrastructure, and inclusive digital ecosystems across India and Nepal
Partnership will develop high-quality Nepali language datasets, speech corpora, and multilingual AI resources
Specific technologies include speech-to-text, text-to-speech, machine translation, and multilingual conversational AI capabilities
Initiative will preserve and digitize linguistic and literary heritage of low-resource and underrepresented languages across India-Nepal region
BHASHINI's open and interoperable language technology ecosystem supports over 800 government websites
Platform processes more than 15 million inferences daily
Supports 36 Indian text languages, 23 Indian voice languages, and 35 international languages
Collaboration envisions joint research, capacity building, training programmes, and pilot projects in Natural Language Processing (NLP), multilingual AI, and Digital Public Infrastructure
Digital India BHASHINI Division operates under Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Through National Hub for Language Technology (NHLT), BHASHINI enables scalable speech and text-based AI services across Indian languages
