Unified Mobile Application For New-age Governance for Android users

                                              

                                     
UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) is envisaged to make e-governance 'mobile first'. It is developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and National e-Governance Division(NeGD). It is an evolving platform designed for citizens of India to offer them access to the pan India e-Governance services from the Central, State,Local bodies, and Agencies of government on app, web, SMS, and IVR channel. It brings together all government departments and their services on a single platform to provide better and easier services to citizens.

It aligns all government services with the mobile first strategy to leverage mobile adoption trends. It provides seamless integration with other Digital India Services like Aadhaar, DigiLocker, and PayGov. Any new such service will automatically be integrated  with the platform. It is designed to enable citizens to discover, download, access, and use all government services easily. It supports based and other authentication mechanism for service access. The sensitive profile data is saved in encrypted format and no one can view this information.

Key Features

    CBSE: All CBSE Students can locate the exam centers and view their exam results using this application in UMANG. 

    NCERT: It enables students, teachers, parents, and schools to view class-wise and subject-wise content provided by NCERT in online and offline modes.

    AICET: Citizen can search  for AICET approved institutes and courses.

    Soil Health Card: SHC helps in crop-wise recommendations of nutrients and fertilizers required for the individual farms to help farmers to improve the yield of production. Citizens can view their soil health card using this application in UMANG.

     

  PMKVY: The objective of pradhan mantri kaushal vikas yojana is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up Industry relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. Citizens can apply as a candidate under PMKVY and view their application. 

Crop Insurance: Crop Insurance helps to protect against either the loss crops due to natural disasters, such as hail, drought, and floods, or other loss of revenue due to decline in the prices of agricultural commodities.

ORS: Online Registration System links various hospitals across the country to enable citizens to book/cancel appointments and view lab and blood availability reports in UMANG.

Key Benefits for Citizens:

• Single-Point Ubiquitous Access: All government  services are available for citizens on a unified platform for easy access through multiple online and offline channels( SMS,email,app and web).
• More for Less: Only a single mobile app need to be installed instead of each app of each departments.
• Saving of Time and Money: Citizens can anytime and anywhere avail these services though their mobile phones, desktops, and laptops without any need for visiting the department office to the platform.
• Uniform Experience: All the government services including payment-based transactions provide secure and uniform experience. 

Another one government app is MyGov app. It is India's innovative citizen engagement platform for direct citizen participation in governance by providing an avenue for channelizing their ideas, comments and creative suggestions to central ministries and associated organizations. Citizens can participate in policy formulation and program implementation to usher in an era of direct participatory democracy.                          Applink
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