BharatGen is a multimodal multilingual large language model initiative, developing advanced generative AI models tailored to India’s linguistic, cultural, and socio-economic diversity. To ensure that generative AI models adequately represent India’s diverse linguistic landscape, BharatGen has launched an initiative called “Bharat Data Sagar”, focusing on primary data collection. This data collection attempts to meet the requirement that training data is available for Indian languages that are lesser represented in data corpora.

BharatGen is building partnerships with research groups across the country, to ensure that the generative AI models being developed can be extended by partners and made available to the larger research and non-academic community for further development and usage. BharatGen is also developing partnerships with the government, industry and start-ups for applications geared towards efficient administration and public at large, including marginalized and underrepresented communities in the country.

In order to promote cultural identity and regional development, BharatGen provides technologies and tools that will support the development of region-specific content by seamlessly translating across local languages and dialects.

BharatGen includes a consortium of top AI researchers across premier academic institutions in India that include IIT Bombay, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Mandi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIM Indore, and IIT Madras. These research groups are partnering with the government, industry and startups to develop models, keeping in mind the linguistic and cultural diversity of India and inclusivity for citizens and to ensure equitable technological access across different socio-economic groups in the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Rajasthan on 17th December. PM will participate in ‘Ek Varsh-Parinaam Utkarsh’: Completion of 01 year of State Government of Rajasthan’ programme during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for 24 projects related to Energy, Road, Railways and Water worth over Rs 46,300 crores at Jaipur, Rajasthan.

PM will inaugurate 9 projects worth over Rs 11,000 crore which include 7 central government projects and 2 state government projects and will lay the foundation stone for 15 projects worth over Rs 35,300 crore which include 9 central government projects and 6 state government projects.

The projects being inaugurated during the event include Navnera Barrage, Smart Electricity Transmission Network and Asset Management System projects, Railway electrification of Bhildi- Samdari-Luni- Jodhpur-Merta Road-Degana – Ratangarh section and Package 12 of Delhi-Vadodara Green Field Alignment (NH-148N) (Major bridge over Mej River upto junction with SH-37A) project among other projects. These projects will help in providing an easy commute to people and fulfil the energy needs of the state in line with PM’s vision of green energy.

Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for construction work of Ramgarh Barrage & Mahalpur Barrage and system for transfer of water from Navnera Barrage to Bisalpur Dam and Isarda Dam through aqueduct on Chambal River at a cost of over Rs 9,400 crore.

Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for installation of rooftop solar plants on government office buildings, development of one 2000 MW solar park & two phases of 1000 MW solar parks in Poogal (Bikaner) and drinking water transmission line from Saipau (Dholpur) to Bharatpur-Deeg-Kumher-Nagar-Kaman & Pahari and Chambal-Dholpur-Bharatpur retrofitting work. Foundation stone will be laid for works related to Luni-Samdari-Bhildi Double Line, Ajmer- Chanderiya Double Line and Jaipur-Sawai Madhopur Double Line railway project as well as other energy transmission related projects.

Uganda has procured 5 lakh doses of hepatitis B vaccines to be administered to children at birth and adults to combat and contain new infections. The hepatitis B vaccines will be delivered to public health facilities across the East African country to reduce the incidence of the virus.

Preparations in Uganda are already underway for onward distribution to health facilities. There has been a prolonged shortage of hepatitis B vaccines that affected vaccination campaigns in the country.

In 2022, an estimated 1,250 Ugandans died of the disease, and about 6 per cent of Uganda’s population, or 2.7 million people, remain chronically infected.