MeitY Enables Map Services in “UMANG App”,
Signs MoU with MapmyIndia
· The service will enable people to
find government facilities like Mandis, Blood Banks etc.
near their location
· With the newly launched map service
people can easily navigate through visual and voice directions
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
(MeitY) has taken various initiatives in the recent past
to ease the lives of citizens by facilitating online delivery of Government services.
To further enhance the initiatives of Digital India Programme,
and keeping in view the theme of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’,
MeitY has enabled map services in “UMANG App '' through
an MOU with MapmyIndia.
As a result of integration of UMANG with MapmyIndia Maps, citizens will be able to find government facilities
nearest to their location, such as mandis, blood banks
and much more, at the click of a button. They will also be able to see these on
the most detailed and interactive street and village level maps of India, built
by MapmyIndia. Citizens will also be able to view the
driving distance, get directions and turn by turn voice and visual guidance to locations,
including traffic and road safety alerts during navigation, through the linkage
between UMANG App and MapmyIndia”.
UMANG app has already started to provide map functionality through
MapmyIndia in the following services:
·
Mera Ration - Through UMANG, users can
identify and navigate to the ‘Nearest Fair Price Shops’ as shops are visible
in the form of pointers on MapmyIndia integrated map.
·
eNAM - Through UMANG, 'Mandi Near Me' service will help users to identify and navigate
to the nearby mandis pointed on the map.
·
Damini - ‘Damini
Lightning Alerts’ service is to provide lightning alerts to users by giving
a visual ofnearby areaswhere
lightning has struck in the last few minutes. This alert mechanism provides the
possibility of lightning strikes on map view.
To further increase usefulness to citizens, the map functionality will
be shortly enabled in many more services such as:
·
ESIC - Users can view ESIC centers such as hospitals/dispensaries on map
view and navigate to them.
·
Indian Oil - Service is to locate nearby retail and distributors of Gas stations
as well as fuel filling stations.
·
NHAI: Users can view the toll plazas and toll rates information while travelling.
·
National Crime Records Bureau
(NCRB) provides information corresponding to nearby police
stations on the map.
·
Pradhan Mantri
Gram Sadak Yojana (Meri Sadak) will help users to raise complaints
of damaged roads (under PMGSY) by selecting the road on MapmyIndia
platform.
About UMANG:
The UMANG mobile app (Unified Mobile Application
for New-age Governance) is a Government of India single, unified, secure, multi-channel,
multi-platform, multi-lingual, multi-service mobile app, providing access to high
impact services of various organizations (Central and State). Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi had launched
the UMANG App in 2017. UMANG brings major government services on a single
mobile app, with a larger goal to make the government accessible on mobile phones
of citizens. As on date, UMANG provides about 1251 services from 257 Departments
& 32 States and about 20,280 Utility Bill Payment services and many more services
are there in the pipeline. UMANG user base has crossed 3.41 Crore across Android,
iOS, Web and KaiOS platforms. Citizens can also access
their Digilocker Accounts from UMANG and give their feedback
after availing any service through Rapid Assessment System (RAS) which has been
integrated with UMANG.
About mapMyIndia:
MapmyIndia, is a product of an indigenous, company founded and headquartered
in New Delhi, India, in 1995, which has digitally mapped the entire country. It
helps users find relevant places nearby and see them on detailed building level
maps. MapmyIndia’s APIs enable app and technology developers
to easily integrate India’s own, indigenous, Aatmanirbhar maps into their apps.
The UMANG App can be downloaded by giving missed call
on 97183-97183 and is available at following links for download:
1.
Web: https://web.umang.gov.in/web/#/
2.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.umang.negd.g2c