Free for all

It was not just 'serious' contributors to the MyGov portal - a government initiative for citizen-government interaction - who had been invited to its second anniversary celebration on Saturday. Worried that they would not be able to fill the seats at the Indira Gandhi Stadium, the venue where the celebrations were held, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology and the MyGov event management team had sent out invites to everyone who had ever dropped a suggestion on the portal since it went live two years ago. This irked volunteers who had been toiling hard to contribute regularly. A group of these regulars were heard grumbling that it was unfair that "all kinds of people" had been invited to fill seats.