The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has taken several strategic initiatives to make Indian cities smarter, says Sanjay Goel, Joint Secretary (e-Governance), MeitY, in an exclusive interview with Gautam Debroy of Elets News Network (ENN).
Tell us about some of your recent initiatives in e-governance sector.
The MeitY, Government of India, has initiated several new initiatives in eGovernance sector. Some of the initiatives are as follows:
Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG): UMANG has been developed as a single mobile platform to deliver major Government services with core platform integrated with Aadhaar, DigiLocker, PayGov, Rapid Assessment System (RAS), etc. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dedicated UMANG to the nation on 23 November, 2017. UMANG will empower 40 crore smartphone users to access government services. About 196 services from 38 departments and four States are already available on UMANG and the count is increasing day-by-day. It supports around 12 Indian languages, in addition to English, and has been hosted on cloud. UMANG aims to bring power to finger tips of citizens. They can access pan-India Government services from the Central Government, State Governments, local bodies and their agencies and some important utility services from corporate.
Government e-Market Place (GeM): In order to transform the procurement process of goods and services by various Government bodies, Government e-Marketplace (GeM), the online procurement platform, has been implemented. GeM provides tools for e-bidding and reverse e-auction as well as demand aggregation to facilitate efficient procurement. GeM is being used by 22,208 organisations of the Central Government and States/UTs. 102,683 sellers and services providers are registered on the portal.
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