Date: 2026-03-31Category: Press ReleaseState: Union GovernmentCountry: India
Nyaya Setu AI Chatbot and Mascot “DISHIKA” Unveiled at DISHA Programme; BHASHINI Enables Real-Time Multilingual Translation During Vice-President’s Address
**Executive Summary**
On March 31, 2026, the Nyaya Setu AI Chatbot and its mascot “DISHIKA” were unveiled at the DISHA programme at Vigyan Bhawan. Developed by the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), this voice-first multilingual assistant aims to democratize access to justice by helping citizens navigate legal processes in their native languages. The event also showcased BHASHINI’s real-time transcription and translation capabilities during the Vice-President’s address.
**Key Points / Main Content**
**Nyaya Setu AI Chatbot and Mascot**
* **Purpose:** A multimodal, voice-first legal assistant designed to help citizens understand legal rights, processes, and subsequent steps through simple interactions.
* **DISHIKA Mascot:** A friendly digital interface intended to guide users, build trust, and enhance engagement, particularly for first-time users of the justice system.
* **Linguistic Inclusion:** Developed to remove language barriers, allowing citizens to access legal services in multiple Indian languages and dialects.
**Technical Specifications and Security**
* **Development:** Built as a turnkey AI implementation by the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD).
* **Integrated Tech Stack:** Utilizes an end-to-end voice stack including BHASHINI Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP), and conversational AI.
* **Safety and Compliance:** The AI is aligned with legal guardrails and trained on frameworks such as BNS to ensure context-aware, safe, and responsible responses.
**BHASHINI Ecosystem and Infrastructure**
* **Real-time Capabilities:** The "Shrutlekh" system provided real-time transcription and translation during the unveiling ceremony to ensure audience participation.
* **Scalability:** BHASHINI manages the National Hub for Language Technology (NHLT), supporting over 500 government websites and processing 15 million daily inferences.
* **Language Support:** Offers 20 specialized NLP services across 36 text and 23 voice languages, including complex tribal dialects and international languages.
**Impact Analysis**
**Indian Citizens**
**Impact**
Citizens gain a simplified, voice-led pathway to understand legal procedures and rights, overcoming linguistic and procedural barriers that previously hindered access to justice.
**Action Required**
Users can interact with the Nyaya Setu chatbot and the DISHIKA mascot via voice or text to seek guidance on legal queries.
**Department of Justice and Ministry of Law and Justice**
**Impact**
These stakeholders benefit from a modernized, inclusive justice delivery system that utilizes digital public infrastructure to reach a wider demographic.
**Action Required**
Continue the implementation of the DISHA programme and integrate AI-driven tools to simplify legal processes for the public.
**Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) / MeitY**
**Impact**
DIBD demonstrates its capability to deliver turnkey, end-to-end AI solutions and maintains a robust ecosystem for multilingual digital public infrastructure.
**Action Required**
Continue to manage the NHLT platform, support open-source models, and expand NLP services across more languages and government interfaces.
Key Entities Referenced
Nyaya Setu: A voice-first, multilingual AI legal assistant designed to democratize access to justice by explaining legal processes and rights to citizens.
BHASHINI: India’s AI-powered language technology initiative that provides the multilingual AI stack, including real-time translation and speech recognition technologies.
Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD): The implementing division under the Ministry of Electronics & IT responsible for developing and owning the Nyaya Setu AI platform.
DISHA Programme: An initiative organized by the Department of Justice under which the AI chatbot and mascot were unveiled.
BNS: The legal framework (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita) used to train the chatbot to ensure responsible and context-aware responses.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
Nyaya Setu AI Chatbot and Mascot “DISHIKA”
Unveiled at DISHA Programme; BHASHINI
Enables Real-Time Multilingual Translation
During Vice-President’s Address
Posted On: 31 MAR 2026 5:11PM by PIB Delhi
The Nyaya Setu AI Chatbot, along with its official mascot “Dishika”, was unveiled at the DISHA
programme organised by the Department of Justice at Vigyan Bhawan by the Vice-President of India, Shri
C.P. Radhakrishnan, and the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice, Shri Arjun Ram
Meghwal.
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Nyaya Setu is a voice-first, multimodal, multilingual AI-powered legal assistant designed to
democratise access to justice by helping citizens understand legal processes, rights, and next steps through
simple voice and text interactions across multiple Indian languages.
Built and owned as a turnkey AI implementation by the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD),
the platform demonstrates a complete end-to-end voice stack, enabling seamless voice-led user journeys
through integrated technologies including BHASHINI ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition),
multilingual NLP, and conversational AI systems. The solution is aligned with legal guardrails and
trained on frameworks such as BNS, ensuring responsible, safe, and context-aware responses.Highlighting the significance of this initiative, Shri Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India BHASHINI
Division (DIBD), noted that Nyaya Setu represents a critical step towards making justice delivery more
inclusive, where language no longer remains a barrier. Built on a voice-first, end-to-end AI stack, the
platform showcases how turnkey AI implementations can enable seamless voice journeys and bring
citizen services closer to people in their own languages, advancing the broader vision of democratisation
of access to justice.
The mascot “Dishika” acts as a friendly digital interface, guiding users through legal queries and
enhancing accessibility, trust, and engagement, especially for first-time users navigating the justice
system.
During the programme, BHASHINI’s Shrutlekh system enabled real-time transcription and
multilingual translation of the Hon’ble Vice-President’s address and other sessions, ensuring seamless
accessibility and wider audience participation.
Nyaya Setu stands as a strong example of how voice-driven, AI-enabled platforms can advance the
democratisation of access to justice by simplifying legal processes for citizens, particularly those facing
linguistic and procedural barriers. The solution further reinforces BHASHINI’s role in enabling scalable,
inclusive, and voice-enabled digital public infrastructure that brings justice closer to every citizen.
BHASHINI is India’s AI-powered language technology initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY), implemented by the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), an
Independent Business Division under Digital India Corporation, a Section 8 company under MeitY. It has
developed one of the world’s largest AI inferencing platforms, the National Hub for Language Technology
(NHLT), enabling multilingual AI capabilities across Indian and international languages through advanced
speech and text technologies. BHASHINI manages a robust ecosystem powering open source models
from academic institutions and organisations, supports more than 500 government websites, and processes
over 15 million inferences daily. The platform offers over 20 specialised NLP services across 36 text and
23 voice languages, including support for complex tribal dialects and multiple international languages.
The current Nyaya Setu implementation has been developed by DIBD as a turnkey solution to
demonstrate the end-to-end capabilities of language AI through a seamless, voice-led user journey.
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