Three initiatives by the government to directly connect with the citizens of India. These Portals act as platforms to promote the active participation of Indian citizens in their country's governance and development.

1. National Data
Portals of
India
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2. Agenda

3. Impact of e-Governance Portals
Transparency
Accountability
Citizen Engagement
Better Governance
Better decision making
Innovation
Cooperation

4.  India.gov.in is the Official Portal of the Government of India, designed, developed and hosted by the
National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier ICT organization of the Government of India under the
support of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), the Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology.
 The Portal has been developed as a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the National E-Governance
Plan (NEGP) of the Government. The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access
to the information and services being provided by the Indian Government for citizens and other
stakeholders.
 India.gov.in has sections for people living abroad, business persons, government employees, senior
citizens and children.

5. Four phases during the creation of the portal:
1. Phase 1 was the initiation of the portal with work on conceptualization, the blueprint and creating the
technology architecture,
2. Phase 2 was the launch of the first version of the portal, which comprised existing information that
was repackaged and presented in a citizen friendly manner,
3. Phase 3 was infrastructure set up, which included the launch of the Hindi version of the portal, content
personalization features and the introduction of a Content Management System,
4. Phase 4 made the content universally accessible, W3C compliant and providing integration of the
portal interface with online services already provided by other government departments.
India.gov.in links to Union, State, District and local level official websites and is the most comprehensive
portal about the government of India with links to more than 5000 government websites.

16. Open Government Platform - OGPL to Promote Transparency and Citizen Engagement
OGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen
engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available. OGPL is
available, as an open source platform. By making this available in useful machine-readable formats it allows
developers, analysts, media & academia to develop new applications and insights that will help give citizens
more information for better decisions.
The site was launched in October 2012 and is a part of the Open Government Initiative.

20. Yearly Statistics

21. Monthly Statistics

26. 19 Applications

27. Partnership between Citizens and
Government
Citizen Participation
'Discuss' and 'Do'
Good Governance
Unique initiative of
nation building
Citizens can share their expert thoughts, ideas and
suggestions with the Government in areas related
to various policies, programs, schemes etc.
Innovative platform
45 days of its launch as many as
215,000 users get enrolled to
MyGov and more than 28000
users submitted detailed plans
and ideas on a variety of issues