Kargil Vijay Diwas (Vijay Diwas), The MyGov movement
1. Kargil Vijay Diwas (Vijay Diwas)
- Kargil Vijay Diwas is a holiday observed in India on the 26th of July every year in honour of the Kargil War’s Heroes.
- 527 soldiers from Indian Armed Forces lost their lives during the war.
- On this date in 1999 india successfully took command of the high outposts.
- The Kargil war was fought for more than 60 days and ended on 26 July 1999, when the Pakistani army took advantage of the melting snow and – betraying the bilateral understanding of both the nations that the post would remain unattended during the winter season – took command of the high outposts of India.
- The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilization of 200,000 Indian troops.
- The war came to an official end on July 26, 1999, thus marking it as Kargil Vijay Diwas.
- This day is celebrated in the Kargil–ctor and the national capital New Delhi, where the Prime Minister of India pays homage to the soldiers at Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate every year.
- As a tribute to soldiers who fought valiantly and made supreme sacrifice in the Kargil war, the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind today (July 26, 2020) presented a cheque of Rs 20 lakh to the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), Delhi, to buy equipment that will help doctors and paramedics to combat the Covid-19 pandemic effectively.
- This is the 21st anniversary of the Kargil war victory which is celebrated as Vijay Diwas as 21 years ago our Army unfurled the flag of victory in the battle of Kargil.
- It was the victory of high morale and bravery of our armed forces in the truest sense of the term.
- The Army Hospital (Research and Referral) is the apex medical care centre for the Armed Forces of India.
- The Officiating Commandant Maj. Gen. Sarat Chandra Dash was also a participant in OP VIJAY for which he was awarded Yudh Seva Medal.
- In the prevailing situation, its doctors, nurses and paramedical staff are tirelessly working round the clock and providing the highest quality of medical care at great risk to their own lives.
2. The MyGov movement
- The MyGov movement must go forward on the event of celebration of 6 years of MyGov.
- MyGov ‘Saathis’ – representatives of 1.2 crore MyGov users and followers, celebrated 6 years of citizen engagement and participatory governance.
- “The MyGov movement must go forward” for which he event of celebration of 6 years of MyGov has celebrated.
- MyGov ‘Saathis’ – representatives of 1.2 crore MyGov users and followers, celebrated 6 years of citizen engagement and participatory governance.
- The work being done by MyGov and called upon to take initiatives to take citizen engagement through MyGov to every Municipal Body and to every district and every panchayat, and be a catalyst for giving a platform to the most talented minds to share their ideas.
- Also MyGov to enable effective data analytics and ensure that suggestions given by citizens are shared with concerned departments and mature into actionable items.
- The online event was graced by Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for HRD, Communications, Electronics & IT, Shri Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT, and Shri Abhishek Singh, CEO of MyGov also.
- Shri Sanjay Dhotre, MoS called upon MyGov to aim for outreach governance by building upon and strengthening participative Governance.
- MyGov to expand its outreach in regional languages to reach to every person in the country.
- MyGov citizen engagement platform was launched on 26th July 2014 by Minister with the vision of MyGov as mentioned by Prime Minister: “Let us join this mass movement towards Surajya, realize the hope and aspirations of the people and take India to greater heights.”
- Mygov.in was conceptualised as a common platform for Indian citizens to “crowdsource governance ideas from citizens”.
- MyGov platform provides an opportunity to citizen and all stakeholders from across the world to share their views on key governance issues across all stages by directly engaging with the Government Departments, policy makers and implementers.
- MyGov successfully transformed to a sought-after citizen engagement and dissemination platform for government programs and policies.
- Since its launch in 2014, MyGov has more than 122 lakh registered users, around 778, 000 submissions have been made in 953 tasks and around 45 lakh comments have been received in 839 discussion forums.
- Around 53 lakh people have taken part in 126 quizzes and 33.70 Pledges have been taken in 24 Pledges.
- Almost all Government Departments leverage MyGov platform for their citizen engagement activities, consultations for policy formulation as also to disseminate information to citizens for various Government schemes and programs.
- MyGov has also launched State instances in 12 States, and other States are in the process of being on boarded.
- MyGov’s reach has helped in getting citizen inputs during policy formulation resulting in the development of programs and schemes that are able to address key citizen concerns.
- It has also helped in expanding the outreach of Government to citizens, thereby improving the image of the Government.
- MyGov has today evolved into a complete and end-to-end engagement platform with wide variety of engagement models as well as offering Performance Indicators of various Flagship Programmes of the Government.
- Today MyGov has become a trusted source of information for citizens during these harsh and tough time of Corona .
- The team has worked extensively to ensure that timely and correct information reaches to citizen.
