Hardeep Singh Puri writes: It will transform Indian infrastructure and logistics to compete with the world’s leading economies The Prime Minister’s Gati Shakti plan is a bold step in changing the status of the progress of the nation from “go slow” to “go fast”. Over the past seven years, our government has taken giant strides in simplifying and integrating disparate policies and procedures to accelerate development. GST simplified the taxation of goods and services while Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mudra brought in instant Direct Benefit Transfer into bank accounts. The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, UDAN, Jal Marg Vikas, industrial and freight corridors, the Bharatmala, and Sagarmala projects have given a big boost to the infrastructure and industrial prowess of the country.

Ministry of Education and MyGov organized the Mentoring YUVA Quiz to commemorate 75 Years of India’s Independence as part of the ongoing ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. It also aimed at spreading awareness about YUVA (Young, Upcoming and Versatile Authors) amongst aspiring young authors and writers. The quiz comprised of enlightening questions on famous authors and writers, books, and novels. The quiz was held from 15th June 2021 to 31st July 2021 on the MyGov Quiz platform and received an overwhelming response, with more than 68.4K citizens participating from across the country!

On the occasion of “Rashtriya Poshan Maah” in the month of September 2021 “Poshan 2.0 Quiz” was organized by NCERT,in collaboration with Ministry of Education and MyGov to spread information and awareness regarding food, nutrition, healthy eating practices, balanced diet and importance of handwashing etc which strives to reduce the level of under-nutrition, low birth weight in children and anemia in adolescent girls, pregnant women, lactating mothers as well as children.

Mahendra Nath Pandey writes: It is in line with the country’s climate change commitments, will help boost manufacturing sector and also help ensure energy security. India is the fifth largest car market in the world and has the potential to become one of the top three in the near future — with about 40 crore customers in need of mobility solutions by the year 2030.

To boost investor education & awareness, IEPFA on MyGov platform, conducted an online quiz from 14th Sep, 2021 to 25th Oct, 2021. A total of 46,769 entries were received till 25th Oct, 2021. The highest peak for the quiz was observed on 15th Sept, 2021 with 8,433 submissions. Kerala topped the table in state wise participation with 11,121 submissions followed by 4,685 from Uttar Pradesh and 3,774 from Delhi.

With the start of the vaccination program, millions of eligible citizens came forward and registered themselves to be a part of the World’s Largest Vaccine Drive & strengthen India’s fight against COVID-19.

Synopsis There are many important questions in the field of labour markets in India that need evidence for policymaking. The government is committed to uplifting the standard of living of workers and has introduced four labour codes focusing on improving working conditions.

On the occasion of the one-year completion of the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries in collaboration with MyGov organised an online real-time quiz contest on the PMFME Scheme. The quiz contest started on 29th June 2021 and ended on 12th September 2021.

The Directorate of Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), Government of India announced a drawing competition as a part of Azadi ka #AmritMahotsav from 23rd August 2021 to 29th August 2021. With the theme “Draw Your Favourite Freedom Hero”, children of age 7-15 years were encouraged to know more about India’s freedom fighters as they drew their favourite freedom hero, and at the same time explore their creative instinct.

Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) conducted ‘PMFBY Quiz’ competition from 21st June to 21st August 2021 on MyGov. The objective of the Quiz was to spread awareness about the benefits of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) amongst the farmers fraternity and fellow citizens of the country.