Lok Sabha Question No. 3104 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-14
Subject: MyGov Website
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: HEMANT TUKARAM GODSE

Will  the  Minister  of  ELECTRONICS  &  INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  be  pleased  to state:-

- (a) whether the Government has launched a website called MyGov that aims to help citizens to contribute in governance;
- (b) if so, the details and the salient features thereof;
- (c) the modalities prescribed for giving the opinion and suggestions by the citizens and their inclusion in future schemes,
- (d) whether a large number of mobile users in the country are likely to help the Government to provide a transparent and result oriented governance; and
- (e)  if so the details thereof ?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR  ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI K. J. ALPHONS)

(a) and (b): Yes, Sir.  MyGov has been a successful first-of-its-kind participatory governance initiative  that  has  flourished  and  evolved  with  time  and  need.  The  citizen  engagement platform - MyGov, was launched on 26 th July 2014, by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. MyGov has engaged with multiple Central Ministries and Government bodies and select States and has effectively bridged the void between government and citizens by empowering them to participate in government policy making processes.

MyGov  has  been  instrumental  in  successfully  collaborating  with  citizens  and  delivering programs, policies, ideas to various government departments. More than 50 Ministries have collaborated  with  MyGov  and  hosted  the  aforementioned  activities  to  engaging  around  53 Lakhs  citizens  till  date  on  some  of  the  prominent  activities.  MyGov  have  crowdsourced various  Logos  like  Swacch  Bharat,  Digital  India,  National  Literacy  Mission  through  this platform. MyGov  also  was  instrumental  in  engaging  common  citizens  in  solving  national issues  through  hosting  smart  India  hackathon,  Innovation  challenge  etc.  The  platform  also enables innovation for incubating startups.

(c):  Citizens have been able to contribute their ideas to core policy issues, make suggestions, give feedback, and participate in the governance process at large through discussions, tasks, polls, talks. Citizens' inputs which were crowdsourced through MyGov have been included in financial  budgets,  Rail  Budgets,  National  Education  Policy,  etc.  The  citizen  sensitivity towards programs and policies has been gauzed through surveys like rate my government. Citizens inputs have also been taken care on by key discussion like Net Neutrality, Mann Ki Baat for PM, etc through MyGov.

(d)  and  (e):    A  large  number  of  Mobile  users  in  the  country  can  help  the  Government  to provide  the  transparent  and  result  oriented  governance  as  more  and  more  Government Services  and  initiatives  can  be  reached  to  the  remote  and  far  flung  areas  of  the  country, through the mobile network. However, the direct impact of more number of mobile users in helping  the  Government  to  provide  the  transparent  and  result  oriented  governance  is  not measurable.

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