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Recently, Tripura became the first North East State to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD) for Multi-lingual Governance.

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• The MOU aims to increase the usage of the rich regional languages of Tripura and to facilitate citizen’s digital participation by using these languages in governance.
• Currently many citizens of Tripura face challenges due to language barriers, especially those in rural and tribal areas who struggle with software systems in English or Hindi. 
• Bhashini can integrate with existing systems like the CM Helpline, eVidhan, Kisan Sahayata App and e-Districts to enable multilingual communication and can enhance local governance through apps like Amar Sarkar and improve education with multilingual technologies.
• After the signing of the MoU, Tripura became the first north-eastern state, the first in eastern India, and the eighth state in the country to sign a MOU with Bhashini.

Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD) 

It is an Independent Business Division under the Digital India Corporation (DIC) which has been set up by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India.

• DIC is a not-for-profit Company under Section 8 of the Companies Act 2013 to innovate, develop and deploy Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and other emerging technologies for the benefit of the common man.

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.

Bhashini

• It is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led language translation platform under the Digital India program, which enables massive citizen engagement to build multilingual datasets through a crowd-sourcing initiative called Bhasha Daan. 
• It ensures seamless communication and internet accessibility for all Citizens in 22 Indian languages.
• The tool aims to simplify the diversity of languages in the country by offering real-time translation and also lets developers leverage the open-source language database to build tools, apps and services in native languages.
• The goal is to create an evolving repository encompassing data, training and benchmark datasets, open models, tools and technologies.