In March 2025, Lok Sabha Secretariat and the Ministry of Electronics and…
2025
In March 2025, Lok Sabha Secretariat and the Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology signed an MoU to develop the Sansad Bhashini initiative for which purpose?
- A.
For digitising the Voter ID of all citizens
- B.
Enhancement and modernisation of all government offices
- C.
For tracking the activities of all the members
- D.
Streamline and modernise parliamentary operations
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Correct answer: D
Government-to-Parliament technology MoUs in India are typically designed to modernise the legislature's own internal functioning — enabling multilingual communication, faster documentation, and streamlined proceedings — rather than to manage citizen-facing databases or monitor individuals.
In March 2025, the Lok Sabha Secretariat and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) signed an MoU to develop Sansad Bhashini, an AI-based multilingual tool for Parliament that supports real-time translation, transcription and documentation of proceedings, with the explicit aim of streamlining and modernising parliamentary operations.
Digitising the Voter ID of all citizens falls under the Election Commission of India's electoral-roll systems, a separate function from a Parliament-facing language tool.
Enhancing and modernising of all government offices describes a government-wide administrative reform spanning every ministry, not an initiative scoped to the legislature.
Tracking the activities of all the members describes a member-conduct monitoring function, not a translation/documentation support tool.
Hence, the MoU's purpose was to streamline and modernise parliamentary operations.