Dr Jitendra becomes first-ever Minister to hold Facebook ‘Hackathon’

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh participating in a Facebook
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh participating in a Facebook "Hackathon" Live session at New Delhi on Friday.

Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Jan 10: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today became the first-ever Union Minister to hold a Facebook “Hackathon” Live On-line.
“Modi Government has nothing to hide,” said Dr Jitendra Singh participating in a Facebook Hackathon Live session on Citizen Grievance Redressal, here today. “Great headway has been made with the launch of this MyGov Live platform on Facebook to carry forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mission of Minimum Government, Maximum Governance by deploying e-Governance tools.
The aim of the Government is to reach out to the last man in the last queue, said Dr Jitendra Singh. This will help achieve maximum outreach, bring transparency in Governance and help interact directly with the citizens,” he added.
Answering online queries during the one hour programme, Dr Jitendra Singh assured efforts are on to help citizens lodge their grievances on the Centralized Public Grievance Redress And Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) portal in Indian languages and the process will be expedited. “Many States have already replicated the CPGRAMS model and already some States have provisions to lodge grievances in respective regional languages,” he said.
The Minister said a big leap has been taken in the newly carved out Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir with the launch of the “Awaaz-e-aam” UT Grievance Redressal Cell and it is to be linked with the CPGRAMS portal, he added.
Interacting with more than 8,000 active viewers during the Live programme, Dr Jitendra Singh appealed citizens to submit their entries in the first Online Hackathon on data-driven Innovation for Citizen Grievance Redressal being conducted by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). The Hackathon was made live on 5th November last year in a DARPG Workshop and over 53 proposals have been submitted by 1,329 registered teams.
Upon popular demand, the Hackathon has been extended by two days, till 12th January, 5 pm. “The response has been amazing and I appeal the GenX to come forward with their ideas in Artificial Intelligence on designing Innovative Apps in improving the public grievances mechanism,” said Dr Jitendra Singh.
Also participating in the session, Secretary, DARPG, Dr. Kshatrapati Shivaji said the Department’s effort is to meet the aspirations of the people with effective and efficient solutions.

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