Overview

• Prof. G.K. Panikkar urged the Government of India to bolster CIIL’s academic, financial, and administrative autonomy to realize NEP-2020 goals.
• The institute unveiled Bhasha Sanchika, an open-source digital archive designed to preserve and disseminate India’s linguistic diversity.
• CIIL Director Shailendra Mohan announced that a mobile app for learning 22 Indian languages and an AI-based language proficiency assessment will launch by the end of the month.
• CIIL’s existing digital infrastructure features machine translation, text-to-speech systems, multilingual corpora and the translation of the Constitution into 11 languages to support research and planning.
• Speakers highlighted the need for AI-driven solutions and regional science dictionaries to equip mother-tongues for higher education challenges.