BHASHINI mission & UPI 123 Pay

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BHASHINI mission & UPI 123 Pay

News: Union minister for electronics and information technology recently said that Mission Bhashini’s capabilities have been integrated with the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make digital payments through the UPI 123 Pay available in more than 20 local Indian languages.

What is BHASHINI mission?
 It is a local language translation mission that aims to break the barrier between various Indian languages by using available technology.
 BHASHINI4 aims to build a National Public Digital Platform for languages.
 This government platform aims to make Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available in the public domain to be used by Indian MSMEs, startups an and individual innovators. This will help developers to offer all Indians easy access to the internet and digital services in their native languages.

What is UPI 123?
 It is an instant payment system which will allow users to make UPI transactions without an internet connection. It was launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
 Transactions through UPI 123Pay can be done through IVR (interactive voice response) based payment solution, missed call, sound-based technology, and payment app.