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Twitter Launches E-Governance Initiative #TwitterSamvad

The initiative will facilitate different government accounts to stay in touch with the citizens via SMS.

 

With an aim to boost the India's e-governance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the popular micro-blogging site Twitter has come up with an initiative called #TwitterSamvad.

This initiative which actually works on the intention of sending across tweets of 16 Indian Government Twitter accounts to the citizens as an SMS on a daily basis.

To recall, Twitter, launched 9 years ago, was invented on SMS to begin with. So, in a way, it’s going back to its roots in India with the launch of Twitter Samvad.

The plus point of this service is that people with or without an Internet data plan can register  by just giving a missed call to a unique numbers for each of the 16 partners.

We believe that #TwitterSamvad can also be used during  emergency with the ability to deliver live updates by government bodies. including time sensitive information like law and order situations as well a details about any rescue efforts.

To give in more details, it is worthy to note that Twitter had recently acquired ZipDial, an Indian company which has led to the Twitter Samvad initiative launched recently.

The company is boasting of the initiative which it believes as a service for the people and of the people.

Here is a list of a 16 government partners who have participated in the launch of Twitter Samvad:

Accounts

Description

Phone Number

@NarendraModi

Personal account of Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi

011 3006 3006

@PMOIndia

Official account of the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi

011 3006 3007

@adgpi

Official account of Additional Directorate General of Public Information, IHQ of Ministry of Defence

011 3049 6116

@RailMinIndia

Official account of the Ministry of Railways

011 3049 6222

@anandibenpatel

Personal account of Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat

011 3049 6050

@CMofKarnataka

Official account for the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah

011 3049 4737

@CPBLR

Official account for Mr. M N Reddi, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru City

011 3049 5141

@BlrCityPolice

Official account for Bengaluru City Police

011 3049 5242

@blrcitytraffic

Official account for Bengaluru City Traffic Police

011 3049 5464

@ncbn

Personal account of N Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh,

011 3049 5767

@TelanganaCMO

Official account of Chief Minister of Telangana, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao

011 3049 5868

@YadavAkhilesh

Personal account of Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

011 3008 3380

@UPGovt

Official account for the Government of Uttar Pradesh

011 3049 6353

@NitishKumarJDU

Personal account of Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar

011 3008 2828

@MamataOfficial

Personal account of Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister, West Bengal

011 3008 3333

@MeaIndia

Official account of Ministry of External Affairs, India, Syed Akbaruddin

011 3049 5969


How Twitter Samvad will work for users:

  • Users will have to give a missed call to each of the numbers listed above to follow each of their Twitter accounts. For example, for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the number is 011 3006 3006.
  • Immediately after placing the missed call, users will start to receive Tweets throughout the day keeping them in touch with leaders and government agencies.  
  • In case of emergency or urgent public announcements, account owners (leaders, government agencies, disaster management cell) can instantly send an update on a given situation to all registered users.


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