The Government of India will soon support emails with Hindi writing
New Delhi: All central government IT systems will start supporting email communication using Hindi scripts in the next two years, a senior official said on Monday.
Speaking at the Universal Acceptance (UA) Day curtain raiser, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT Bhuvnesh Kumar said work has started to make 15 ministry websites UA-compliant and their content available in Hindi.
“Resolver to facilitate email communication in local language will be done over 2 years. Initially it will support Hindi script and later other languages will be added,” Kumar said.
He said the Center would encourage state governments to provide content in local languages.
Global Internet body ICANN has backed Universal Acceptance, which aims to solve problems related to language barriers that prevent people from connecting to the Internet.
The internet has been dominated by the English language, which prevents many English speakers from using it.
UA’s idea is to develop technology that facilitates communication in the Internet’s native scripts such as Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu.
Jia-Rong Low, ICANN’s Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Managing Director for Asia Pacific, said at the event that major technology companies such as Google and Microsoft have come on board to support UA and local businesses must adopt it as it is. closer to users.
A K Jain, CEO of the state-owned National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), said people can now reserve a domain name in all scripts of Indian languages and the Center has started adopting them. PTI PRS HVA
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