UMANG ( उमंग) Mobile App

UMANG ( उमंग) Mobile App

UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) Mobile App

Lets look at a useful phone app called UMANG. This app has been released by MeitY, Government Of India Productivity. The app description in Google Play read as “UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) is envisaged to make e-governance

‘mobile first’. It is developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD)”

It is an evolving platform designed for citizens of India to offer them access to the pan India e-Gov services from the Central, State, Local Bodies, and Agencies of government on app, web, SMS, and IVR channels.

Key Features:
Unified Platform: It brings together all government departments and their services on a single platform to provide better and easier services to citizens.

Mobile First Strategy: It aligns all government services with the mobile first strategy to leverage mobile adoption trends.

Integration with Digital India Services: It provides seamless integration with other Digital India Services like Aadhaar, DigiLocker, and PayGov. Any new such service will automatically be integrated with the platform.

Uniform Experience: It is designed to enable citizens to discover, download, access, and use all government services easily.

Secure and Scalable: It supports Aadhaar-based and other authentication mechanisms for service access. The sensitive profile data is saved in encrypted format and no one can view this information.