In crowd we trust

Ideas sourced from the Indian public have found a voice in the recent Railway and the Union Budgets. These include views on bio toilets, online payment for food, ideal railway stations, gold monetisation and sovereign bonds schemes and the need to have a new law to tackle benami property. Given this, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad proudly proclaimed that the Narendra Modi government was not only engaging the people of the country by seeking their ideas, it was also respecting them by acting on the feedback. He was speaking at the launch of a contest to source ideas from the people to develop a mobile application aimed at strengthening the prime minister's communication and interaction strategy.