Rajasthan becomes the first state in the country to offer free email addresses to its residents in Hindi, with the facility being name@rajasthan.bharat (in Devanagari script). According to Hindustan Times, the first email id that was created was for the chief minister Vasundhara Raje – Vasundhara@rajasthan.bharat.

Rajasthan becomes the first state in the country to offer free email addresses to its residents in Hindi, with the facility being name@rajasthan.bharat (in Devanagari script). According to Hindustan Times, the first email id that was created was for the chief minister Vasundhara Raje – Vasundhara@rajasthan.bharat.

The project has been implemented by the state IT department in collaboration in the form of in-sourcing with private IT companies, a senior official informed HT. The official also pointed out that even the Japanese who like to work in their own language don’t have a linguistic email id.

The initiative will ensure maximum participation of people towards e-governance and also that maximum facilities are available in vernacular language. This e-mail is a small part of the bigger picture ‘Rajasthan DigiKit’ which has an enrollment of more than one crore people. - Official to the Hindustan TImes.

“During Digifest Kota in August 2017, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had shown the intent to have a vernacular e-mail service for the residents who are not fluent in English as she felt that language should not be a hindrance for anybody using emails or electronic communication. Hence, the vernacular e-mail, in Hindi, was launched on 3 December. Rajasthan is the first, and currently the only state, to have a vernacular e-mail,” principal secretary, department of information technology and communications, Akhil Arora, told HT.