Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University has started contributing to the Central government's Bharat Vani Project.

The university is assembling valuable information on Maithili, Bhojpuri and Bajjika, largely spoken in north Bihar, to bring it on the Digital India map.

University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, had directed the university to assemble documents pertaining to Bhojpuri, Maithili and Bajjika to forward the Centre's plan of setting up the biggest language portal of the world under the aegis of Digital India.

The government has undertaken steps to preserve scripts, texts, books, journals, pictures, video and audio clips related to all literatures, languages and dialects in the country under the Bharat Vani Project.

University development officer Kalyan Kumar Jha said all necessary linguistic materials will be easily accessible on the portal.

"The university has consulted experts of the languages and sought a helping hand from Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Tilka Manjhi University, Bhagalpur and Veer Kunwar Singh University, Chhapra," he said.

There are separate departments for Maithili, Bhojpuri and Bajjika languages in all the educational institutes.

Several colleges falling under the university run three-year degree courses and postgraduate courses in Maithili and Bhojpuri.

"Experts are burning the midnight oil to collect study resources, books, novels and documentaries on the languages," said Awadheshwar Prasad Arun, who has written a Bjika Ramayan, in Bajjika.

"More than 15 writers with origins in Nepal, who write in Bajjika, have provided books to the university," said Jaswant Singh, who has directed a documentary in Bajjika - Kaduva Chor. It was aired on Muzaffarpur Doordarshan in 2012.

So far, the university has accumulated around 220 books, poems and novels on the languages.

Proctor Satish Kumar said the university would soon forward all the texts to the UGC within a fortnight to be put up on the portal.

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University was established in 1960. The university has 37 constituent colleges. Distance education courses are also offered. Besides, the university organises seminars and workshops