Digital India BHASHINI Division signs an MoU with Manipur on multilingual artificial intelligence

16 October 2026

The Digital India BHASHINI Division, under the Digital India Corporation of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, held the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop, Manipur Chapter, in Imphal on 14 October 2026 with the Department of Information Technology of the Government of Manipur.
The workshop explored ways to advance multilingual artificial intelligence, strengthen language technology and bring Indian language solutions into government and citizen-facing digital services.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Division and the Government of Manipur by Amitabh Nag, Chief Executive Officer of the Division, and Somorjit Salam, Secretary of Information Technology in Manipur.
The MoU aims to strengthen cooperation in language technology, improve language resources and explore multilingual digital services across the state.
Chief Minister of Manipur Yumnam Khemchand Singh said linguistic diversity is a valuable strength and that the state is exploring ways to bring more of Manipur's languages into the digital space.
The workshop gave an overview of BHASHINI's Language-First Digital Public Infrastructure and its ecosystem of language datasets, artificial intelligence models, application programming interfaces and applications.