New Delhi: To mark the occasion of 3 years of UMANG mobile app (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) and 2000+ services, an online conference will be organized under the chairmanship of Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Communications and Law & Justice on Monday.
It will be organised with the objective to take suggestions/feedback from about 20 partner departments.
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).
In coordination with Ministry of External Affairs, UMANG’s international version will be launched during the conference for select countries that include USA, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
It will help Indian international students, NRIs and Indian tourists abroad, to avail Government of India services, anytime.
It will also help in taking India to the world through ‘Indian Culture’ services available on UMANG and create interest amongst foreign tourists to visit India.
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, providing access to high impact services of various organizations of Centre and States.
UMANG was developed by National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics & IT.
It was dedicated to the Nation on November 23, 2017, by our Prime Minister with 163 services.
Within a short period of its successful implementation, UMANG attained four illustrious awards including ‘Best m-Government service’ award at the 6th World Government Summit held at Dubai, UAE in Feb 2018.
In complete resonance with Digital India’s vision of “Power to Empower”, the aim to develop UMANG was to enable ‘Ease of Living’ for Citizens by facilitating simple and effortless access to major Government services from a single mobile app.
UMANG has now grown to provide 2039 services (373 from 88 Central departments, 487 from 101 departments of 27 States and 1179 services for utility bill payments) and the count is galloping ahead!
The UMANG Mobile app is available on Android, iOS, all web browsers platforms and select 80 services on KaiOS (available on Jio feature phones).
UMANG has reached a level of more than 3.75 crore downloads and ~2.5 crores registered users while maintaining an average Play Store rating of >4 from more than 136 thousand users.
The UMANG App can be downloaded by giving a missed call on 97183-97183 and is available for downloading from the following links:
Web: https://web.umang.gov.in/web/#/
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.umang.negd.g2c
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/umang/id1236448857
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