Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language

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