Question: Recently Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) has taken various initiatives in to ease the lives of citizens by facilitating online delivery of Government services under UMANG apps..Which is not one of the initiative taken by MeitY?
(a) Damini
(b) eNAM
(c) Mera Ration
(d) All of them
Answer : (d)
Related Facts:
- Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) has taken various initiatives in the recent past to ease the lives of citizens by facilitating online delivery of Government services.
- To further enhance the initiatives of Digital India Programme, and keeping in view the theme of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, MeitY has enabled map services in “UMANG App ” through an MOU with MapmyIndia.
- UMANG app has already started to provide map functionality through MapmyIndia in the following services:
- Mera Ration – Through UMANG, users can identify and navigate to the ‘Nearest Fair Price Shops’ as shops are visible in the form of pointers on MapmyIndia integrated map.
- eNAM – Through UMANG, ‘Mandi Near Me’ service will help users to identify and navigate to the nearby mandis pointed on the map.
- Damini – ‘Damini Lightning Alerts’ service is to provide lightning alerts to users by giving a visual ofnearby areaswhere lightning has struck in the last few minutes. This alert mechanism provides the possibility of lightning strikes on map view
BY: AMIT GUPTA
Referernce: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1736179