BHASHINI Signs MoU To Digitise Toponyms

The Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Survey of India on 20 January to digitise, transcribe and standardise geographical place names using AI-based speech and language technologies. The collaboration will use BHASHINI’s speech-to-text and language processing to create a validated Toponymy Database covering more than 16 lakh locations for the National Geographical Name Information System, enabling multilingual, multi-script place-name consistency across maps and governance systems.