Govt. launches MyGov portal to engage commoners in governance

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the portal, MyGov, an interactive platform for the people to connect with the government actively and facilitates their engagement towards nation's development.

Managed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the portal 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 inauguration of MyGov is a small step towards the larger mission of becoming a one stop centre for citizen engagement towards good governance. Over time the number of groups, tasks and discussions will increase. MyGov would also be used as a comprehensive knowledge repository, giving insights from the sharpest and brightest minds across India," said the PM in a statement.

The platform consists of various focus groups such as Clean Ganga, Girl Child Education, Clean India, Skilled India, Digital India, Job Creation -where citizens can undertake tasks (both online and on ground) as well as share their insights through various discussions related to the particular Group.

Citizens can upload documents, case studies, pictures, videos, other work plans etc. on the platform. The objective of each group is to bring about a qualitative change in that sphere through people's participation. The participators have the option to key-in their opinion in Hindi also.

These tasks would then be reviewed by other members and experts. Once approved, these tasks can be shared by those who completed the task and by other members on MyGov. Successful completion of a task will enable citizens to earn credit points and a chance to share their ideas with PM.

There are plans to provide a mobile app as well for MyGov, wherein while on the move, the citizens will have the flexibility to take pictures from mobile and upload on the forum, 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 programs, etc.