Pariksha SaathiDigital India BHASHINI Division signs MoU with Manipur to advance multilingual AI at Imphal workshop
The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), under the Digital India Corporation of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, and the Government of Manipur signed a memorandum of understanding on 14 October 2026 at the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop, Manipur Chapter, in Imphal, PIB reported on 15 October. The MoU, signed by DIBD CEO Amitabh Nag and Manipur IT Secretary Somorjit Salam in the presence of Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh, is to strengthen cooperation in language technology, improve language resources and build multilingual digital services for the state. The workshop presented BHASHINI's language-first digital public infrastructure (datasets, AI models, APIs and applications), included a live demonstration of real-time English-to-Manipuri translation, highlighted Manipur's languages such as Manipuri, Tangkhul, Thadou, Paite, Hmar and Liangmai, and hosted BHASHINI Shilpi, an interactive platform for developers and students to build with language AI.
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 the platform of the National Language Translation Mission, launched by the Prime Minister on 4 July 2022 during Digital India Week at Gandhinagar; it runs under MeitY through the Digital India Corporation. Manipuri (Meitei) is one of the 22 Eighth Schedule languages, added by the 71st Amendment in 1992 together with Konkani and Nepali. Digital public infrastructure (DPI) means shared, open digital building blocks such as Aadhaar, UPI and DigiLocker on which services are built.
Reference: BHASHINI’s official portal (MeitY)
Check yourself: is Manipuri an Eighth Schedule language?
Yes. Manipuri was added to the Eighth Schedule by the 71st Constitutional Amendment in 1992, along with Konkani and Nepali.
Revision task: from this release, note who signed the MoU, where and when, and the Manipur languages the workshop highlighted, and keep them apart from the standing facts about BHASHINI above.
Test yourself
At the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop on 14 October 2026, the Digital India BHASHINI Division signed an MoU with the government of which state?
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Answer: Manipur
The MoU was signed with the Government of Manipur at the workshop in Imphal, by DIBD CEO Amitabh Nag and Manipur IT Secretary Somorjit Salam, in the presence of Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh.
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