The IT Ministry on Monday unveiled a slew of new initiatives and programmes, including BHIM 2.0 that packs-in new functionalities, supports additional languages and has increased transaction limits. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also launched a StartUp Hub portal and Indian Software Product Registry at IT Ministry’s MeitY Start-up Summit. “In order to make BHIM app more feature-rich and effective it has been enhanced with a bunch of new functionalities. Three new languagesThe new version of BHIM also supports three additional languages - Konkani, Bhojpuri and Haryanvi - over and above the existing 13. The minister also launched an Indian software products registry, which will act as a single window portal to collate Indian software product database.

Source: The Hindu October 21, 2019 15:22 UTC