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MyGov chief Tripathi to take over as CEO of India Semiconductor Mission

ISM screens applications received for manufacturing semiconductors in India, and it shortlists the ones that are eligible for subsidies

Ajay Bhadoo appointed Dy Election Commissioner, Akash Tripathi MyGov's CEO

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), ...

Get your Aadhaar, PAN delivered on WhatsApp using Digilocker: Here's how

Digilocker is a new addition to the services available through MyGov HelpDesk chatbot on WhatsApp and you can use it to access CoWin services like vaccine appointment, vaccination certificate etc. too

Citizens can now access Digilocker services on MyGov Helpdesk via WhatsApp

A flagship initiative under Digital India programme, DigiLocker aims to strengthen digital empowerment' of people by providing access to authentic digital documents, in their digital document wallet

Youth giving 74% of inputs for Mann ki Baat programme: MyGov CEO

Over 74 per cent of the inputs received for Mann ki Baat, the monthly radio broadcast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have come from those in 18 to 34 years age group

MyGov to focus on having more state chapters, campus ambassadors: CEO

The platform, launched in July 2014, has 13 million users who contribute their ideas through discussions

Govt removes tweet on bringing hotel bills of over Rs 20K under I-T scanner

The tweet was put up by mygovindia, a platform founded by the government to promote the active participation of citizens in their country's governance and development, on Thursday

Indians should be proud of 'safest app' Aarogya Setu, says MyGov CEO

There is no other app that anyone in India is using today that has greater privacy features than what Aarogya Setu has, said MyGov CEO Abhishek Singh

Coronavirus spread: Aarogya Setu tops charts with 75 million downloads

Contact-tracing apps to track the spread of Covid-19 have been developed in at least 23 countries, according to research firm Top10VPN.

Between MyGov and Bharat Net, here are the highs and lows of Digital India

Schemes that address clear market demand have clicked; those that focus on behavioural change, not so much

Rub-off effect

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.

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.

Better than the best

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.

Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurates 'townhall' to mark two years of MyGov.in

Town Hall as a concept is commonly used in the West among politicians as well as CEOs to interact with people directly

Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurates celebration to mark two years of MyGov.in

Prasad said that achievements of ordinary people should be given prominent space on the MyGov portal