The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), under the aegis of the Union Education Ministry, has launched ‘shabd.education.gov. web portal.
- The portal provides technical terms in all 22 official Indian languages. The web portal aims to be a central repository for all the terminologies prepared for Indian languages.
- Besides all the glossaries of CSTT, other institutions or agencies having such dictionaries are also able to host their work in digital form on this platform.
- As of now, 450 dictionaries amounting to three million words are available on the website.
- Through this platform, the users are not only be able to search the equivalent terms of scientific and technical terminology in Indian languages but also be able to register their feedback for the equivalents already prepared by the CSTT.
- The CSTT, was set up in December 1960, with the objective to evolve and define scientific and technical terms in Hindi and all Indian languages.
