BHASHINI–PFRDA Sign MoU to Enable Multilingual Pension Services
On 25 March 2026, the Digital India BHASHa Interface for India (BHASHINI) Division (DIBD) under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) under Ministry of Finance (MoF), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under the initiative ‘BHASHINI for Seva–Sanchalan’ to enhance multilingual accessibility of pension services across India.
About Multilingual Pension Integration via BHASHINI:
Inclusion: The initiative enables multilingual access across PFRDA platforms in all 22 Eighth Schedule languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, and Sanskrit, enhancing outreach and expanding pension access to rural, informal sector, and first-time savers.
Digital Infrastructure: The initiative leverages BHASHINI as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for real-time translation and contextual processing.
Technology Integration: It provides voice-enabled user interfaces with speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies and integrates BHASHINI tools into PFRDA systems under the BHASHINI Sahayogi Programme for effective implementation.
About BHASHINI: It is India’s AI-driven language technology initiative launched under the National Language Translation Mission by MeitY, supports 36 Indian languages, 23 voices, and 35 international languages.