New Delhi, March 31 – India’s Gram Panchayats have made cumulative payments of over ₹3 lakh crore through the eGramSwaraj platform. The AI-powered 'SabhaSaar' meeting tool is now available in 23 Indian languages, the government said on Tuesday.
Payments through eGramSwaraj are made directly to vendors and service providers in real time, ensuring complete digital traceability. The platform is integrated with the Public Financial Management System, and it streamlines planning, accounting, and expenditure at the Panchayat level.
The system replaced cash-based and paper-driven processes with a fast, accountable, and fraud-resistant system.
The government described these achievements as two significant milestones in advancing digital and inclusive rural governance across the country.
India’s Gram Panchayats are witnessing a major leap in digital governance with the eGramSwaraj platform, while the AI-powered SabhaSaar tool strengthens both financial transparency and inclusive participation at the grassroots.
In FY26, Panchayati Raj Institutions transferred ₹53,342 crore through the eGramSwaraj-PFMS interface, and 2,55,254 Gram Panchayats uploaded their development plans on the platform.
Overall, 2,59,798 PRIs have been onboarded and 2,50,807 PRIs made online payments through eGramSwaraj during FY26, the statement from the Ministry of Panchayati Raj said, noting that the platform has registered 16,079,737 vendors.
SabhaSaar, the voice-to-text meeting summarisation tool launched on August 2025, has expanded to 23 Indian languages. The newly added languages include Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Manipuri, Nepali, Santali, and Sindhi, enabling gram sabha proceedings to be recorded and documented in local languages.
SabhaSaar facilitates automated recording of minutes, attendance, resolutions, and action points, making Gram Sabha processes more accessible and participatory.
The platform, previously available in Hindi, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, now covers the full linguistic diversity of Panchayati Raj institutions across India.
As of January-end 2026, over 1.11 lakh gram panchayats have used the platform for meeting summarisation.
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