bengaluru chief minister basavaraj bommai on tuesday asked the egovernance department to ensure that all government software have a kannada script and templatelaunching the ekannada portal prepared by this department he said the use of kannada should be more widespread and not restricted to only one or two portals accordingly he said the government will issue orders that all software needs to have a kannada template the ekannadakarnataka govin portal will enable people to learn kannada it will have kannada lessons in audio video and print formats the portal will teach people the language from basics including the most elementary words used in everyday interaction the interactive lessons are available for free the portal has the unique distinction of setting up an online kannada dictionary portal called padakanaja the portal has records of over 2 lakh unique kannada words along with 74205 unique english words every word is given a grammatical example on how people can use it and in what context the portal gives access to even rti web portal in kannada language apart from a forum called digital jagali where people can discuss issues and leave feedback