UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Digital India BHASHINI Division and National Health Authority
Q1. BHASHINI develops open-source translation and speech technologies for the 22 Indian languages that draw their official recognition from which one of the following?
- A. The Sixth Schedule to the Constitution
- B. The Seventh Schedule to the Constitution
- C. The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution
- D. The Ninth Schedule to the Constitution
Q2. The Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology stack of the BHASHINI platform is operationalised by which one of the following?
- A. The Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Digital India Corporation
- B. The National Informatics Centre
- C. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- D. The National e-Governance Division
Q3. Which one of the following is the apex body entrusted with implementing Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY and building the technological infrastructure of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission?
- A. The National Health Mission
- B. The National Health Authority
- C. The National Medical Commission
- D. The Central Council of Health and Family Welfare
Q4. Under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, which one of the following serves as the foundational digital health identifier issued to every citizen?
- A. The Health Professional Registry (HPR) number
- B. The Health Facility Registry (HFR) ID
- C. The Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA)
- D. The Unified Health Interface (UHI) handle
Q5. In the context of the MoU signed with the National Health Authority, 'BHASHINI' is best described as which one of the following?
- A. A national language-technology platform offering AI-based translation, speech recognition and text-to-speech services
- B. A centralised repository of electronic health records of PM-JAY beneficiaries
- C. A telemedicine network connecting district hospitals to tertiary-care centres
- D. A digital claims-adjudication engine for hospital reimbursements under PM-JAY
Q6. The Digital India Corporation, which houses the Digital India BHASHINI Division, functions primarily under which one of the following Union ministries?
- A. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- B. The Ministry of Communications
- C. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
- D. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Q7. Under the MoU, BHASHINI's language stack is to make the National Health Authority's platforms accessible in how many Indian (Bhartiya) languages?
- A. 11 languages
- B. 18 languages
- C. 22 languages
- D. 28 languages