Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language
Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language
Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language
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A detailed study <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> various s<strong>of</strong>twares is attempted below:<br />
LILA<br />
LILA (Learning Indian <strong>Language</strong>s Through Artificial Intelligence) is an<br />
interactive package for learning Hindi and is particularly targeted for<br />
employees <strong>of</strong> Govt. departments, banks, public sector undertakings etc.<br />
The package includes three levels <strong>of</strong> learning namely: Prabodh, Praveen &<br />
Pragya. The courses are based on <strong>the</strong> syllabi <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> classroom level<br />
teaching and distant education <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Central Hindi Institute.<br />
The technical achievements in Hindi S<strong>of</strong>tware development during<br />
<strong>the</strong> Tenth <strong>Plan</strong> have been commendable. In <strong>the</strong> first year <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>, LILA<br />
Pragya was launched. In 2003-04, <strong>the</strong> Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya<br />
courses run by <strong>the</strong> Central Hindi Teaching Scheme were put on <strong>the</strong> DOL<br />
portal and a project for learning <strong>the</strong>se courses through South Indian<br />
languages was initiated, which was put on <strong>the</strong> DOL portal <strong>the</strong> following year.<br />
In 2005-06, efforts began to develop s<strong>of</strong>tware to extend learning <strong>of</strong> Hindi<br />
through Assamese, Oriya, Marathi and Manipuri and <strong>the</strong>se new s<strong>of</strong>twares<br />
were released <strong>the</strong> following year. Work also began for developing LILA<br />
through Bodo, Nepali, Kashmiri and Gujarati languages. Currently, LILA<br />
Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya packages allow people to learn Hindi through<br />
<strong>the</strong> medium <strong>of</strong> 14 languages (Assamese, Bangla, English, Gujarati,<br />
Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepalese, Oriya,<br />
Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu) on <strong>the</strong> World Wide Web. The packages are also<br />
available in stand-alone versions toge<strong>the</strong>r with a tool-kit. Hindi Prabodh has<br />
been made accessible on mobile phones with multi-media. This is indeed a<br />
very impressive achievement.<br />
LILA packages are inter-active self-learning tools with speech interface,<br />
video clips, tracer module and Hindi/English Indian <strong>Language</strong>s Dictionary.<br />
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