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22 languages, digitally: Bhashini and BharatGen

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: 22 languages, digitally: Bhashini and BharatGen (GS2/3 · Language tech, 25 October 2025)
Asked by UPSCPrelims 20241 PYQ

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What happened

  • The government supports all 22 scheduled languages through AI platforms such as Bhashini and BharatGen [PIB].
  • Language data from SPPEL (endangered languages scheme) and Sanchika is used to train models [PIB].

Background

  • India has 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule [Constitution].

Why it matters

  • Services in local languages decide whether digital public goods reach the poor.

How to use this in Mains

GS-II Science and technology: IT, computers, robotics, indigenisation

  1. As per PIB (2025-10-25): the government supports all 22 scheduled languages through AI platforms such as Bhashini and BharatGen.
  2. Services in local languages decide whether digital public goods reach the poor.
Quotable data point

The government supports all 22 scheduled languages through AI platforms such as Bhashini and BharatGen.

PIB: PIB Backgrounder: 22 Languages, Digitally Reimagined, 25 Oct 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: Bhashini.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

Scheduled languages

Answer (b) & explanation

Source: Eighth Schedule, Constitution (Legislative Dept).

Practice · UPSC

SPPEL is about

Answer (a) & explanation

PIB.

Practice · UPSC

AI language platform

Answer (a) & explanation

PIB.

Go deeper

ExplainerArtificial Intelligence: How It Works, Uses in Governance, Risks and Regulation, and the IndiaAI Mission (UPSC Notes + PYQs)

Official source: PIB: PIB Backgrounder: 22 Languages, Digitally Reimagined, 25 Oct 2025

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