UMANG App
- The UMANG mobile app (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) is a Government of India all-in-one single, unified, secure, multi-channel, multi-lingual, multi-service mobile app.
- It provides access to high impact services of various organizations of Centre and States. Presently it has 2000+ services.
- The aim of UMANG is to fast-track mobile governance in India.
- UMANG enables ‘Ease of Living’ for Citizens by providing easy access to a plethora of Indian government services ranging from –
- Healthcare, Finance, Education, Housing, Energy, Agriculture, Transport to even Utility and Employment and Skills.
- The key partners of UMANG are Employee Provident Fund Organization, Direct Benefit Transfer scheme departments, Employee State Insurance Corporation, Ministries of Health, Education,
- Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Staff Selection Commission (SSC).
- The top 3 States based on average monthly transactions are – Gujarat,Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.
- UMANG was developed by the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics & IT.
- It is a ‘Digital India’ initiative.
- UMANG attained ‘Best m-Government service’ award at the 6th World Government Summit held at Dubai, UAE in February 2018.
Expected Benefits:
- It will help Indian international students, NRIs and Indian tourists abroad, to avail Government of India services, anytime.www.vishnuias.com
- It will also help in taking India to the world through ‘Indian Culture’ services available on UMANG and create interest among st foreign tourists to visit India.