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July 19, 2021
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Recently, the Ministry of Electronics & IT enabled map services in “UMANG App”; Signed MoU with MapmyIndia.

Benefits of new features

As a result of integration of UMANG with MapmyIndia Maps following benefits will available to citizens:

  • 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. 

Services 

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 of nearby areas where lightning has struck in the last few minutes. This alert mechanism provides the possibility of lightning strikes on map view.

More services 

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 Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance(UMANG)

  • UMANG is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD) to drive Mobile Governance in India.
  • UMANG provides a single platform for all Indian Citizens to access pan India e-Gov services ranging from Central to Local Government bodies.
  • The UMANG 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). 
  •  The Prime Minister of India 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 the 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.
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