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Context: The Lok Sabha Secretariat and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the Sansad Bhashini Initiative.
About Sansad Bhashini Initiative
It aims to modernize parliamentary operations by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and multilingual support (through Bhashini) to streamline parliamentary operations.
- Bhashini is an AI-powered language translation platform by MeitY.
Key Features of the Sansad Bhashini Initiative
- AI-driven tools will translate parliamentary content (debates, committee meetings, agenda files) into multiple Indian languages in real-time.
- An AI chatbot will be developed to help MPs and officials retrieve parliamentary rules, procedures, and documents
- Real-time transcription of parliamentary debates into written text.
- AI-Based Automatic Summarization for lengthy parliamentary debates.