Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a unified mobile application which aims to offer e-governance through mobile devices. Named as “Umang” — an abbreviation for Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance, the app is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD).
It offers services of the central, state, local bodies, and various government agencies right on mobile devices running on Android and iOS. The new offering had emerged on the sidelines of the fifth Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS) in New Delhi.
While addressing the participants at the event, PM Modi said:
Today, we launched the Umang Mobile App, which will provide over a hundred citizen-centric services. At the back-end, these services will be catered for by many different departments of the Union and State Governments. This integrated approach will add an automatic layer of ‘peer performance pressure’, in the working of these departments.
The app comes bundled with a list of Digital India services, including Aadhaar, DigiLocker, and PayGov. Additionally, It also provides all the major government services provided through app, web, SMS, and IVR channels.
It can also be used to access income tax filing, LPG cylinder bookings, and Provident Fund account. Parents can also use the Umang app to access CBSE results. The app comes with multilingual support with as many as 10 Indian languages in addition to Hindi and English and includes a payment-based transaction access.
The Umang app is compatible with devices running Android 4.4 and above and iOS 8.0 and later. Moreover, you can give a missed call on 97183-97183 to get the app download link on your number.
In order to start using the application, users will have to register their identity. The registration process begins with an OTP (one-time password) and further choose a couple of security questions for helping in the recovery of the Umang account. Once registration is done, you need to setup MPIN that will be used alongside your mobile number to access the app.