President Pranab Mukherjee, on 9th June, said the government will use social media as a tool for participative governance. He has stated this while addressing member of both the houses of Parliament.
The use of social media by the new government, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been evident since his election campaigning days. It was also one of the crucial factors which helped the party win a whooping majority as it was able to connect with the people, especially the young, effectively.
Seeing the importance of the social media, Modi has also asked his council of ministers to use Twitter and Facebook to disseminate information and to connect with people.
Mukherjee said information technology (IT) will be used to drive re-engineering of government processes to improve service delivery and programme implementation.
"We will strive to provide Wi-Fi zones in critical public areas in the next five years. My government will roll out broadband highway to reach every village and make all schools e-enabled in a phased manner," he said.
Further, the national e-governance plan will also be expanded to cover every government office from the Centre to the Panchayat.
Recently on 30 May I & B Minister Prakash Javadekar has invited his ministerial colleagues to utilise a 'Social Media Communication Hub' set up by his ministry. In a letter addressed to different ministries, Javadekar said the I&B ministry has a 'New Media Wing' with the objective of effective dissemination of information and to provide
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/5155-government-to-use-social-media-for-participative-government.html
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