Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani will launch a multi-lingual education portal ‘Bharatvani' at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) in lucknow on Wednesday. The Union Minister is expected to participate in a seminar on ‘Preservation, publicity and use of technique in Indian languages' at the Central university. The function will be attended by several eminent personalities, who have promoted Indian languages.
The portal is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' initiative and will be available online in 22 Indian languages. There is also an effort to develop dictionaries to bridge the gap between Hindi and 30 tribal languages of the country. Oficial sources said that the portal would initially offer information in 22 languages on a range of subjects. It will be be an online encyclopaedia consisting of information on various subjects. It will also consist of information in multimedia formats like audio, video and images, beside text.