New Delhi: MyGov platform with 1.2 crore users and followers has celebrated 6 years of citizen engagement and participatory governance on Sunday. The platform is amongst the most active profiles with 2.1 million followers on Twitter, 1.1 million on Facebook , 1 million plus on Instagram.
Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “The MyGov movement must go forward”. He was speaking at the event of celebration of 6 years of MyGov.
The IT Minister appreciated the work being done by MyGov and called upon to take initiatives to take citizen engagement through MyGov to every Municipal Body and to every district and every panchayat, and be a catalyst for giving a platform to the most talented minds to share their ideas.
He also called upon MyGov to enable effective data analytics and ensure that suggestions given by citizens are shared with concerned departments and mature into actionable items. The online event was graced by Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for HRD, Communications, Electronics & IT, Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT and Abhishek Singh, CEO of MyGov also.
Mygov.in was conceptualized as a common platform for Indian citizens to “crowdsource governance ideas from citizens”. MyGov platform provides an opportunity to citizen and all stakeholders from across the world to share their views on key governance issues across all stages by directly engaging with the Government Departments, policy makers and implementers.
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