About Us

BOLI CHETO THE LANGUAGE AND LIVELIHOOD FOUNDATION (hereafter referred to as Boli Cheto) is a non-profit organization registered as a Section 8 non-profit company with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, India.

"Boli Cheto," a name deeply rooted in indigenous languages. "Boli" translates to "Language" in the Garhwali language of Uttarakhand, while "Cheto" signifies "Awakening" or "Jagriti" in the Adilabadi Gondi of Telangana. 

Boli Cheto is a non-profit organization headquartered in Telangana, India. Our mission is to promote and revitalize indigenous languages and culture through the internet, digital mediums and open knowledge. We believe that language and culture are integral parts of a community's identity and should be preserved for future generations. By leveraging technology, we aim to empower people from rural communities by creating livelihood opportunities to achieve sustainable development goals.

We at Boli Cheto work with 6 Indian languages namely Telugu, Gondi, Kolami, Assamese, Rabha and Marathi Among these languages Gondi, Kolami and Rabha are indigenous languages from the South and Northeastern part of India.

Our Programs and Initiatives

Boli Cheto is working to revive indigenous Indian languages through the Wikimedia movement by fostering their presence in open knowledge through projects like Wikipedia, and Wikisource and taking up GLAM projects to improve the content related to the cultural heritage of indigenous Indian communities on Wikimedia Commons. Currently, we are building Wikipedia versions for two Dravidian languages on the Wikimedia incubator.

Volunteer for Language

Boli Cheto has started a flagship volunteering program in which we are training 50 people from 6 Indian languages (Gondi, Kolami, Telugu, Marathi, Assamese, Rabha) to foster the presence of these languages on Open knowledge and Wikimedia projects. 

P.V.N Rao Language Fellowship

We are also building plans to launch a Language Fellowship in the name of P.V Narasimha Rao, former prime minister of India. This fellowship program will be one of its kind to build an ecosystem to revive Indigenous languages from India. 

Open Knowledge Clubs

We are in the process of launching our initiative Open Knowledge Clubs at 5 Educational institutions across 3 Indian states Assam, Maharashtra and Telangana. These clubs will act as nodal points connecting today's youth to the most vulnerable languages of the respective regions and there will be a volunteer base who will be working on advocating for Open knowledge on Digital platforms especially for indigenous languages.