Pariksha SaathiBHASHINI's Shrutlekh Provides Live English-Spanish Translation for Foreign Civil Servants at NCGG Mussoorie
India's language-AI platform BHASHINI is providing real-time translation at an international training course for civil servants run by the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) in Mussoorie, the Electronics and IT Ministry said on 13 October 2026. The programme on urban service delivery runs from 12 to 23 October 2026. It is organised by NCGG, which works under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, and sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme. The trainees are drawn from several countries, among them Peru, Nigeria, Cambodia, Lebanon and Spain. At the opening ice-breaking session, BHASHINI's Shrutlekh platform translated speech both ways between English and Spanish, and it is meant to stay available for the rest of the course. The platform is operated by a dedicated BHASHINI division of Digital India Corporation, and the government presents it as the digital public infrastructure for Indian languages. The Ministry says its tools are already used on 2,353 government platforms, more than 800 of them websites, and can handle written text in 36 Indian languages, speech in 23, and 35 foreign languages.
Drafted with AI assistance from the official PIB release linked above and checked against it by a second AI pass. Not line-edited by a human.
Learning context
BHASHINI is India's National Language Translation Mission, launched on 4 July 2022 during Digital India Week in Gandhinagar. It operates under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) as part of the Digital India programme, run by the Digital India BHASHINI Division under Digital India Corporation (a Section 8 company under MeitY).
Reference: BHASHINI's official website
Check yourself: is BHASHINI a standalone ministry?
No - it is a mission/platform run by the Digital India BHASHINI Division, operating under MeitY's Digital India programme, not a ministry in its own right.
Revision task: note which specific language pair and use case (civil-servant training at NCGG) this release describes, separate from BHASHINI's broader, standing mandate.
Test yourself
Which BHASHINI platform provided live English-Spanish translation at the NCGG Mussoorie training course for foreign civil servants?
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Answer: Shrutlekh
Shrutlekh translated speech both ways between English and Spanish at the course on urban service delivery (12-23 October, ITEC-sponsored); BHASHINI handles written text in 36 Indian languages, speech in 23 and 35 foreign languages.
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