Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to reach out to citizens through his first-ever town hall on Saturday, 6 August at Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex to celebrate two years of the MyGov portal – the government’s citizen engagement platform.
Town hall is a concept that is commonly used in the West by politicians as well as CEOs to interact with people directly. US President Barack Obama is known to hold regular town hall meetings.
A new PMO application to enable mobile users to connect with the Indian Prime Minister’s website will also be launched at the mega event.
The Prime Minister will talk about the concept of citizen engagement, MyGov, the response to this participative governance initiative and how he sees the platform evolving.Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO, MyGov
He said a process is already on to short-list those who will get to interact with Modi. “They would be selected from among the regular users of MyGov, based on their ideas, level of engagement, questions and suggestions,” he added.
Event Itenerary
The event is expected to see participation of various ministers and senior government officials, which will be inaugurated by IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and will have four sessions.
- The first session, called ‘Do’, will cover contests on design innovation, eGreetings as also volunteering, poll and survey functionalities of MyGov.
- The second one, ‘Discuss’, will see officials and MyGov contributors in an interactive discussion on brainstorming ideas and sharing experiences.
- The third session will invite fresh ideas for improving user experience, introducing new features for the platform and the panel for this includes social media representatives, MyGov users, Members of Parliament who have contributed to MyGov, and senior officials of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, and NIC.
- The fourth session will cover the ‘Disseminate’ theme and focus on the #TransformingIndia website, eSampark portal and MyGov live events as the channel of government communication with citizens.
(With inputs from PTI)
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