Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications and IT, Government of India has launched the C-DAC Multi-lingual website at a function held in Mumbai. Also present on the occasion were Prof. Rajat Moona, Director General, C-DAC, Zia Saquib, Executive Director, C-DAC, Mumbai, Dr. Hemant Darbari, Executive Director, C-DAC, Pune and other senior officials of C-DAC. The information on the website is available in 22 official languages and is supported by 27 scripts.
Sachin Pilot said, "This was truly a first for any website, be it in the government or private sector, to have pulled off such a major and far reaching initiative. The Ministry of Communications and IT has been one of the earliest to have recognized the potential of multi-lingual computing for the benefit of the masses, thus setting off a plethora of initiatives for the proliferation of Information Technology through the mother tongue of the people. Several of these early initiatives have borne fruit and we have made inroads into hitherto untouched areas like handwriting recognition, optical character recognition, and machine translation in Indian languages. This has truly opened the doors of knowledge discovery and information exchange to millions of Indians who can interact and communicate in their mother tongues without barriers."
Rajat Moona said, "C-DAC multi-lingual website is a vital link between the organization and the outside world. While government norms advocate bilingualism, we have been able to take this one step higher by catering to all the 22 scheduled Indian languages. This has indeed involved a lot of work in the background and will continue to engage us in the days to come. We are also thankful to the Ministry of Communications and IT for their confidence and support to our endeavor, and look forward to our role in evolving the multi-lingual roadmap for the nation's future."
