MyGov movement must go forward: Prasad
Published: Jul 27, 2020
NEW DELHI, JULY 27, 2020: MR Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Law & Justice, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, said, "The MyGov movement must go forward". He was speaking at the event of celebration of 6 years of MyGov.
MyGov 'Saathis' - representatives of 1.2 crore MyGov users and followers, celebrated 6 years of citizen engagement and participatory governance, earlier today.
Mr Prasad 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. Hon'ble Minister 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 Mr Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for HRD, Communications, Electronics & IT; Mr Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT; and Mr Abhishek Singh, CEO of MyGov also.
There were some very special guests too: the Chief Ministers of Assam, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Tripura, whose video messages were shared during the event.
The Saathis - from Nagaland to Kerala to Mumbai to Kashmir - presented specially composed songs and poems, to mark the occasion, and also shared ideas and suggestions for citizen engagement as also for making our nation - Aatma Nirbhar.
Mr Sanjay Dhotre, MoS called upon MyGov to aim for outreach governance by building upon and strengthening participative Governance.
Mr Ajay Sawhney asked MyGov to expand its outreach in regional languages to reach to every person in the country.