Launch of AI-Enabled Voice Chatbot 'Samadhan Didi' for CPGRAMS
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Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, launched 'Samadhan Didi', an AI-enabled voice chatbot integrated with the Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS). The initiative aims to democratize the public grievance redressal mechanism in India by allowing citizens to lodge complaints using voice commands in multiple languages. This technological intervention bridges the digital divide, ensuring accessibility for rural and non-tech-savvy populations, and enhances the efficiency, transparency, and responsiveness of the government's grievance redressal framework.
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Q1. The AI-enabled voice chatbot 'Samadhan Didi' was launched to enhance citizen interaction with which of the following government platforms?
Q2. A semi-literate farmer in rural Rajasthan wishes to file a grievance about delayed MGNREGS wage payment but cannot type or navigate government websites. Which feature of 'Samadhan Didi' most directly addresses this specific barrier?
Q3. Consider the following statements about the 'Samadhan Didi' initiative and the broader framework of AI-enabled governance in India: 1. Samadhan Didi uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enable voice-based interaction with CPGRAMS, reducing dependence on text navigation. 2. Automating the grievance triage stage through AI directly reduces opportunities for rent-seeking at the intake level of bureaucratic processing. 3. The shift from e-governance to AI-driven i-governance implies that human oversight in grievance resolution is entirely eliminated. 4. CPGRAMS is administered by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Which of the statements given above are correct?