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PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHED WEB PLATFORM MYGOV TO GET CITIZENS’ IDEAS FOR GOVERNANCE:
Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on 26 July 2014 launched a web platform – MyGov.nic.in. The platform has been created to facilitate Citizen Engagement in Good Governance.
MyGov will enable the citizens especially the youth to volunteer for specific tasks and projects at grassroots level. It will allow the common people to reach the government with ideas and suggestions.
To be a participant in development of the country through this platform, a citizen will have to register him/herself on the portal. After which the participants can discuss the key challenges being faced by the country. To enable more focused participation, the platform has been split into two halves – Discuss and Do.
The platform – MyGov will be implemented and managed by National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).
The platform has been divided into various groups with an objective to bring about a qualitative change in that sphere through people’s participation. The groups are
- Clean Ganga
- Girl Child Education
- Clean India
- Skilled India
- Digital India
- Job Creation