Bilinguality

Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Official Language (Technical Cell), vide their Office Memorandum No.12015/12/84-OL(TC) dated the 31st Aug, 1987 directed that all Ministries / Departments, their attached and subordinate offices.

What is Bilinguality

In bilinguality work shall be undertaken in two languages i.e. :

Display of menu items in two languages
Screen display in two languages
Database should store Input text in two languages
Data selection / drop downs to be displayed in two languages
Button caption in two languages
Display of messages in two languages
Data output in two languages
Transliteration

Official Languages Act

The Constitution of India recognizes Hindi in Devanagri script as the official language of the Union.

banks must purchase all computer systems, word processors, ALPM’s only in BILINGUAL mode. Computers etc. would be considered bilingual only when :

There are facilities for data entry in Hindi along with English.

Any employee can use it in either English or Hindi. For this, it is necessary to have a facility in the machine so that the employee can display either English or Hindi on the monitor at will.
The output of the system (report, letter etc.) could be produced by the person working on the machine either in Hindi or English at will.

Menu System

Entry Screen

Bilingual Report Screen

Making Existing applications bilingual

Existing Data Migration

We will pick up the data of the existing application and transfer into our application

We would add some additional fields in database for bilingual fields, the data entered by parent application will be made bilingual and provided for editing wherever required

In this process the existing data will be converted to bilingual form once

Daily Data Conversion

online basis

Batch mode for transactional data

Conversion of data will be made as follows:

Uploading of Database

Bilingual Conversion

View of Editing of Data

Extracting of bulk existing Data from Existing System :

Master data

All master Table will be Converted to bilingual

In each master table a column will be added for bilingual name display

Master Data will be updated on daily basis If any master Data changed

Customer Data

Entire Existing Customer Master Data will be converted to bilingual i.e.

Personal Data

Address

Occupation Data

Family details

All customer Data will be fetched from existing system and populated into new System, each customer ID data will be migrated to bilingual and editable displayed in below screen

User can changed the converted Data only if they wish

Any New Customer ID which will be created will be extracted from Bank core banking System and converted to bilingual / multilingual as per customer preferred Language

Below are the customer ID screen for Individual