E-GRAMSWARAJ AND SABHASAAR

NEWS: Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) has achieved significant milestones in rural digital governance through the eGramSwaraj and SabhaSaar initiatives

eGramSwaraj Portal

• Unified web portal+ mobile applicationà developed by MoPR to strengthen e-governance in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) across India.
• Supports creating+ monitoring the Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP)= local development efforts publicly accessible.
• Public Financial Management System (PFMS)à enables online payments to vendors, reducing delays and corruption.
• Allows geo-tagging of village assets with GPS for verification and monitoring.
• Integrated with the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) for purchasing goods online, ensuring competitive prices.

SabhaSaar

• Advanced AI-enabled voice-to-text meeting summarisation tool launched by MoPR in 2025.
• Integrated with the BHASHINI platformà enables transcription and translation in major Indian languages.
• Operates on the IndiaAI Compute Portal under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
• Supports 23 Indian languages; over 1.15 lakh Gram Panchayats use it for automatic meeting documentation and summarisation.