Minister of Information and Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday kicks off the MyGov event, celebrating the second year of the government-citizen interactive platform.

“Those who think for the country and work for its development have been given a platform to participate. I would like MyGov India to become a platform to showcase achievements of those common people who don't get space on TV,” Prasad said while inaugurating the event.

He said that the MyGov team should aim to have 10-15 crore users for the portal. MyGov as of now has 35.2 lakh registered members, 33.9 lakh comments in 589 discussion themes and around 1.82 lakh submissions in 489 tasks.

Townhall meet

The event is the first of its kind where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the citizens from across the country through a 'townhall', a common practice in the West among politicians as well as CEOs to interact with people directly.

Speaking about the Prime Minister's session, Prasad said it has never happened in the history of independent India that a Prime Minister is seeking comments from the public about the topic of the Independence day speech.

In the evening, Modi will interact with around 2,000 people in the townhall for which the audience has been selected from among the regular users of MyGov platform, who have pitched 'quality suggestions' for various government programmes.

Launched in 2014 by Modi, MyGov was a participatory governance initiative involving the common man.

The idea of this portal was to bring the government closer to the citizens by creating an interface for exchange of ideas and views to bring about socio economic transformation.

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