The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Government of India strives to make all government services available to the citizens through the use of ICT applications. It comprises of 31 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs), which are further classified as state, central or integrated projects. Each MMP has several web based applications that are meant to directly or indirectly deliver information and/or services to the citizens. Hence, there is a need to make these applications and services available in the official language of the state apart from English.To meet this goal, the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) has entrusted Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) with the responsibility of assisting various ministries and departments in localization of various applications envisaged under their respective MMP.
C-DAC is implementing this project through the use of Localization Projects Management Framework (LPMF) being designed and developed over a Cloud platform. This framework will help the MMPs in two ways:
1. Surface localization of the user interface and static information on a given website.
2. Internal localization of online applications including linked databases.
LPMF supports all the 22 official languages in the country. The portal is expected to serve all MMPs as an online facilitation Centre for access to information on language technology standards, essentials of the localization processes and training being conducted by C-DAC on these topics. It will also serve as a resource Centre for essential technical documents, localization tools and web services to help developers in localization of various applications planned under their respective Mission Mode Project.