🗣️ JanaSathi: Odia E-Governance Chatbot

JanaSathi is a bilingual AI chatbot that helps users understand and access Odisha Government schemes. It uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to retrieve relevant content from official documents and generate responses in English and Odia.

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🤖 Features

• ✅ Answers queries about government schemes like KALIA Yojana, Mission Shakti, and Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana
• 📄 Reads and processes official government PDF documents
• 🌐 Uses Large Language Models via OpenRouter API
• 🔍 Retrieves relevant information using semantic search (MiniLM)
• 🧠 Generates responses in English and translates to Odia
• 🖥️ Streamlit frontend for interactive usage

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Python 3.10+
• Streamlit
• Sentence-Transformers (all-MiniLM-L6-v2)
• OpenAI-compatible LLMs via OpenRouter
• Cohere models for Odia translation
• PyPDF2 for PDF parsing
• scikit-learn for cosine similarity

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/odia-e-gov-chatbot.git
cd odia-e-gov-chatbot

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add government scheme PDFs

Place your scheme-related PDFs in the project root directory.

4. Run the chatbot

streamlit run streamlit_app.py

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💡 How It Works

• PDF documents are processed and chunked into smaller sections.
• Embeddings are generated using all-MiniLM-L6-v2.
• The chatbot retrieves top relevant chunks using cosine similarity.
• Uses a 49B LLM to generate responses in English.
• Translates the responses into Odia using Cohere’s LLM.
• Presents both responses through a clean Streamlit interface.

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📷 Demo

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📌 To Do

• Improve document chunking for regional formatting
• Add document upload feature in the UI
• Support voice-based queries and responses
• Log chat history for audit and learning

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🙋‍♂️ Author

Anurag Pradhan
📧 anuragpradhancb@gmail.com
🔗 LinkedIn • GitHub

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.