About the Portal

• MyGov portal has been established as Government of India’s Citizen Engagement Platform which collaborates with multiple Government bodies/ Ministries to engage with citizens for policy formulation and seeks the opinion of people on issues/ topics of public interest and welfare.
• MyGov platform is designed, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
• Since its launch on 26th July 2014, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, MyGov has more than 17.5 million registered users.
• Almost all Government Departments leverage MyGov platform for their citizen engagement activities, consultations for policy formulation and also to disseminate information to citizens for various Government schemes and programs.
• MyGov is amongst the most active profiles on Social Media. It has adopted multiple engagement methodologies like discussions, tasks, polls, surveys, blogs, talks, pledges, quizzes and on-ground activities by innovatively using internet, mobile apps, Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS), SMS and outbound dialling (OBD) technologies.
• MyGov is part of Digital India Corporation, a Section 8 company under the Ministry of Electronics and IT.

Why in News?

• The Ministry of Electronics and IT kicked off a daylong event to celebrate “8 Years of MyGov” in New Delhi.

Reference:

1. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1846527