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The Shabd Portal – Searchable Lexical Resources for Indian Languages by Government of India

The shabd portal ( https://shabd.education.gov.in ) of Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), a subordinate office under the Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education, Government of India (GOI) is a data server designed and developed by Prof. Girish Nath Jha, former Chairman CSTT, featuring all the standardized scientific and technical glossaries of CSTT in digital searchable mode. The aim is to launch a central repository for the terminologies prepared in Indian Languages, thus enriching the language bank of India enabling user friendly and free access to standardized terminology. This website is available in 22 Indian languages. The data covers several domains of science, humanities, engineering, medical science and agriculture subjects. The data is dynamic with regular updates in various domains. Users can search the equivalents of terms in Indian languages and submit their feedback for those equivalents prepared by CSTT. The unique feature of the search platform is that users have various options for search, based on languages, subjects, dictionary type and language pairs. The user can also choose to search in a specific glossary or the entire collection which includes about 471 glossaries having about (29,56,125 headwords).