Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) and Government e Marketplace (GeM) Sign MoU to Strengthen Multilingual Access Across India's Public Procurement Ecosystem

• MoU signed on 15 June 2026 between Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) under Digital India Corporation (DIC), MeitY and Government e Marketplace (GeM) under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, to embed multilingual AI across India's public procurement portal.
• Signed under the "BHASHINI for Seva/Sanchalan – A BHASHINI Sahayogi Program", leveraging BHASHINI — India's National Language Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) — across the 22 officially recognised Indian languages (Eighth Schedule).
• Relevance: latest node in India's DPI stack (Aadhaar → UPI → ONDC → BHASHINI) and a flagship use-case of NLTM/Digital India intersecting with public procurement reform and MSME empowerment.