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NeGD Conducts Five-Day Advanced Anti-Drone Training for CISF

National e-Governance Division (NeGD) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in collaboration with the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), conducted a five-day Advanced Anti-Drone Training Programme for officers of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at DIAT, Pune. It was the first intensive technology-driven programme specifically designed for personnel engaged in national security and protection of critical infrastructure. The programme aimed to enhance counter-Unmanned Aerial Sy..

Bhashini Samudaye Onboards Over 10,000 Contributors

Bhashini Samudaye is a centralised digital platform that brings together individual contributors, startups, academic institutions and research organisations to support the development of a multilingual AI ecosystem. The platform facilitates access to language resources for training AI models and supports creation of datasets, domain-specific glossaries and AI models through a structured onboarding mechanism. Over 10,000 contributors have been onboarded to participate in data creation and annotation tasks that strengthen capacity and ecosystem development. An AI-powered, real-time speech-to-tex..

Startup Challenge for Citizen-Centric Blockchain and Web3 Solutions

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has launched a Startup Challenge to develop citizen-centric innovative solutions using blockchain and Web3 to support government use cases. The scheme offers financial incentives to blockchain and Web3 start ups and is intended to encourage development on permissioned blockchain infrastructure. Monetary values are expressed in million (mn) and thereafter use the abbreviation mn. The initiative was presented to the Rajya Sabha by the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. The challenge is structured in four eval..