AI to help UMANG app reach India’s remote corners

Information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday stated that Artificial intelligence (AI) have to be used to expand a voice-primarily based answer, such that Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance or the UMANG app is able to attain people residing even in the remote corners of the nation.

Prasad stated, “this will assist the peoples of India who aren’t very cozy with the digital language are able to give commands”.

“Digital India has to lead to digital inclusion; it needs to bridge the virtual divide. This have to be completed through an era, that is domestic grown and also inclusive. This turned into concretized whilst the Prime Minister had informed me that I need governance to be had at the palm of each Indian,” information generation minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said while marking the occasion of 3 years of UMANG.

The UMANG is a 3-year antique single platform cell utility that provides get admission to more than 2,000 high-effect nation and critical authorities offerings ranging from transport, employment, education, energy, direct gain switch, amongst others.