Following the 'Digital India' dream of the government, BSNL has offered free e-mail address service in eight Indian languages to its broadband users by launching a 'DataMail' service. Now BSNL broadband users will be able to open an email ID in DataMail service in their own language.
"Providing the linguistic email address is one of its kind initiative in the world to achieve our Prime Minister's vision of Digital India. It's now possible in every part of India to have an email address in their own language and communicate in preferred language," BSNL Managing Director Anupam Shrivastav said in a statement.
"The linguistic email service offered by BSNL will have DataOne.Bharat domain (in Hindi or Devanagari script) and email address will be offered in eight regional languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi," BSNL Director for Consumer Fixed Access services N K Gupta said.
Few months back, the government had launched .Bharat (in Hindi script) domain in Indian languages to increase the reach of Internet users by providing domain names in their own language so as to cover over 70 per cent of the country's population living in the rural and remote areas.
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As per Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators Report (April-June, 2016) released by TRAI, total Internet subscribers in India are about 350.48 million which account for about 30 per cent of the country's population.
Indian languages account for less than 0.1 per cent content on world wide web and over 89 per cent population is non-English speaking and unable to read and communicate via email as the language utilised to communicate is English, the statement said.