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Senior bureaucrat Ajay Bhadoo has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner as part of a senior level bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Sunday by the Centre. Bhadoo, a 1999 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Gujarat cadre, has been appointed to the post up to July 24, 2024, a Personnel Ministry order said. As many as 35 civil servants from different services have been appointed as joint secretaries in the central government departments as part of the reshuffle. Akash Tripathi, a 1998 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MyGov, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. Basant Garg, a 2005 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre, has been named Additional CEO, National Health Authority under the Department of Health & Family Welfare. Lochan Sehra, a 2002 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, will be joint secretary, Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), ...
The portal that connects citizens with the government, mygov.in, is on a high. Some internal number crunching has shown a strong connect between mygov.in and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio programme Mann Ki Baat. This is not just because Indians are sending their inputs and feedback in large numbers to Mann Ki Baat through the portal, but also for the frequent mention of mygov.in contributors by the PM himself on the programme. The PM has named as many as 51 people, who sent their inputs for Mann Ki Baat through mygov.in. This data corresponds to 23 episodes of Mann Ki Baat hosted till August 2016.
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.
Translated into English it would mean "Kids, old and young/he meets everyone/that's our PM". The song in Hindi accompanied by a music video showing people prancing around with montages of the Prime Minister taking selfies, playing a drum and so on kept playing in a loop at intervals during the MyGov event on Saturday. The song and the music video had been produced by the MyGov creative team especially for the event. A volunteer boasted that the music video could give any music director and production team a run for their money. He went on to say that the stage, laser lights and the giant screens installed at the venue were comparable or even better than those used at film award functions.