Digital quiz on Modi govt policies kicks off

New Delhi: Celebrating four years in power, the Union government through its website-mygov.in has started a nationwide quiz on the policies and development work of the Modi government.

The questions being asked in the quiz are mainly on:  “What has the government done for citizens like you?”, “What is the progress across various sectors?”,  “What is the impact of various governance initiatives?” etc. The winners will get a chance to interact with the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi. The quiz which started on Saturday will continue for a month.

Mr Modi on July 26, 2014 launched the ‘MyGov’ platform as a unique first-of-its-kind participatory governance initiative involving the common citizen.

The CEO, MyGov, Arvind Gupta told this newspaper that the quiz competition will go on for one month, but those who score 100 per cent score in the next 10 days will get a chance to interact with the Prime Minister in an interaction called ‘Digital Townhall’.

“We are accepting 10 participants in the quiz and around 10,000 who will score cent per cent score will get the opportunity to participate in the ‘Digital Townhall’.

The event will be held next month in both offline and online format. Some participants will get an opportunity for live interaction in offline format while the remaining will interact with the Prime Minister digitally through MyGov platform,” said Mr Gupta.   

According to Mr Gupta, there will be 20 questions on the Modi government policies and key infrastructure projects and participants have to submit their answer in 200 seconds.

“Time limit of 200 seconds will not provide participants to google the answer,” Mr Gupta added.

It is learnt that the questions will include key infrastructure projects, policies, quotes of Prime Minister and identifying pictures. “The ‘Digital Townhall will be held in the second half of next month,” said the CEO, MyGov.