Modi to launch PMO app at MyGov anniversary event

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday launch the new PMO app at a function organised by MyGov here, officials said. The app would correspond to the website of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

“Interestingly, the team that won the contest to develop the app is a team of young engineering students from Delhi,” MyGov Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gaurav Dwivedi said here on Thursday. 

The government had launched a two-phased contest in March 2015 on MyGov platform for the development of PMO app. A team of six engineering students from Delhi Technical University won the contest and finally got to develop the app. 

“Prime Minister Modi would launch the app during the second anniversary function of MyGov that we are organising here on August 6. The event will feature multiple panel discussions and the first ever ‘town hall’ to be addressed by the Prime Minister,” Dwivedi said.

It would be Modi’s first “town hall’ address in the country. He had last year answered questions from the audience at a town hall event at the Facebook headquarters in the US.

Those who would get to interact with the Prime Minister in the town hall have been selected from among the regular users of MyGov platform, who have pitched in “quality suggestions” for various government programmes, the official said.

“We are trying to get a fair representation of people from across the country. Those who have been active on MyGov platform and have contributed with quality suggestions are being short-listed,” 

Dwivedi said.