Question: Good Governance Day is celebrated to mark the birthday of-
(a) Deendayal Upadhyaya
(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(c) Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(d) Lal Krishna Advani
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- On 25 December 2015 Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare announced four new IT-based initiatives on Good Governance Day, to mark the birthday of Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
- Enumerating the first of the initiatives, the Health Minister announced ‘Kilkari’. Kilkari is an audio-based mobile service that delivers weekly audio messages to families about pregnancy, child birth and child care.
- In the first phase of implementation, such messages would be sent to the pregnant women and infants’ mothers in six States in Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
- “Mobile Academy”, has been developed through which about 9000,000 ASHAs will be trained using mobile services.
- A dedicated toll free number, 1800-11–6666, with a call centre is being started.
- It will provide round the clock support for patient counseling and treatment support services.
- This initiative is being started in the States of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi.
- ‘M-Cessation’. This will be an IT-enabled tool to help tobacco users to quit tobacco.
- Built on a helpline concept, it will register beneficiaries on the basis of a missed call. The counseling would be done through a two-way SMS process.
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