BHASHINI Samudaye: Strengthening India’s Language AI Ecosystem

• BHASHINI Samudaye is a community-engagement workshop convened by the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) under MeitY to consolidate India's language-AI ecosystem via participatory governance of public digital infrastructure (DPI).
• Anchors India's strategy for a sovereign, inclusive, multilingual AI stack — directly relevant to GS-II (governance, DPI) and GS-III (S&T, AI).
• Operationalises BhashaDaan crowdsourcing and a new Dataset Onboarding Supporting Team (DOST) with Gates Foundation/Civic Data Lab for ethical dataset curation.