NEW DELHI: A new portal, MyGov.in, a platform for the people, especially the youth, to connect with the government actively, has been launched by the central government. Department of Electronics and Information Technology secretary RS Sharma
said that the portal, managed by the National
Informatics Centre, empowers people to
contribute towards good governance through
various tasks and discussions.
Citizens can upload documents, case studies,
pictures, videos, other work plans etc. on the
platform. They can volunteer for various tasks
and submit their entries. These tasks would
then be reviewed by other members and
experts. Once approved, these tasks can be
shared by other members on MyGov. Every
approved task would earn credit points for
completing the task. Thus, MyGov presents an
opportunity to the citizens to participate in
multiple theme-based discussions and to share
their thoughts and ideas with a wide range of
people.
The platform has been divided into various
groups namely Clean Ganga, Girl Child
Education, Clean India, Skilled India, Digital
India, Job Creation etc. Each group consists of
online and on-ground tasks that can be taken
up the contributors. The objective of each
group is to bring about a qualitative change in
that sphere through people’s participation.
Sharma said the platforms ‘Discuss’ and ‘Do’
will take feedback from the community and
improve on a continuous basis. He said his
department has plan to have a mobile app
for mygov.in , for people to contribute while
on the move and enable them to send theme-
related pictures, report in-context problems
and issues etc.
The platform may even be extended to act like
public audit platform for government projects.
For example, citizens giving feedback on status
of completed infrastructure projects, on
availability of various social sector
programmes etc. http://www.indiantelevision.com/iworld/enews/mygovin-to-increase-government-citizen-interaction-140728
said that the portal, managed by the National
Informatics Centre, empowers people to
contribute towards good governance through
various tasks and discussions.
Citizens can upload documents, case studies,
pictures, videos, other work plans etc. on the
platform. They can volunteer for various tasks
and submit their entries. These tasks would
then be reviewed by other members and
experts. Once approved, these tasks can be
shared by other members on MyGov. Every
approved task would earn credit points for
completing the task. Thus, MyGov presents an
opportunity to the citizens to participate in
multiple theme-based discussions and to share
their thoughts and ideas with a wide range of
people.
The platform has been divided into various
groups namely Clean Ganga, Girl Child
Education, Clean India, Skilled India, Digital
India, Job Creation etc. Each group consists of
online and on-ground tasks that can be taken
up the contributors. The objective of each
group is to bring about a qualitative change in
that sphere through people’s participation.
Sharma said the platforms ‘Discuss’ and ‘Do’
will take feedback from the community and
improve on a continuous basis. He said his
department has plan to have a mobile app
for mygov.in , for people to contribute while
on the move and enable them to send theme-
related pictures, report in-context problems
and issues etc.
The platform may even be extended to act like
public audit platform for government projects.
For example, citizens giving feedback on status
of completed infrastructure projects, on
availability of various social sector
programmes etc. http://www.indiantelevision.com/iworld/enews/mygovin-to-increase-government-citizen-interaction-140728
