Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language

CHAPTER II: DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE
The most important plan scheme of the DOL, measured in terms of
expenditure, was the development of ‘Language Application Tools’ during
the Xth plan. The total plan allocation for all the nine schemes was Rs.
1073.44 lakh, of which the single largest head was the development of Hindi
Software with an allocation of Rs. 586.02 lakh. The actual expenditure was
even higher and stood at Rs. 925.27 compared to the total plan expenditure
of Rs. 1349.19 lakh. Thus this head alone accounted for about 69 percent
of the plan expenditures of the DOL.
The softwares featuring under the head ‘Language Application Tools’ are
being developed by C-DAC and include the following software:
(1) LILA-Rajbhasha (Software for learning Hindi)
(2) Mantra-Rajbhasha (Machine Assisted Translation Tool)
(3) Shrutlekhan Rajbhasa (Hindi Speech Recognition Software)
These software have been developed. The DOL and C-DAC have entered
into an agreement to develop two additional software by 2009:
(4) Pravachak (Hindi Text to speech) and
(5) Vachantar (English Speech Recognition to Hindi Text)
During the Tenth Plan, the year-wise budget estimates &
actual expenditures on development of Hindi software is given below:
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