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How Participatory is My Government? A Closer Look at MyGov.in -Inayat Anaita Sabhikhi

-The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy

In keeping with the spirit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, the Union government had, in 2004, introduced a pre-legislative consultative policy for public policymaking. In July 2004, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, which rode to power on the twin slogans of development and good governance, launched a website, MyGov.in, to push forward its mandate of participatory governance. In this article, Inayat Anaita Sabhikhi, a practitioner of development economics, analyses how the website, albeit a limited platform that is available to only those having access to the internet, has been seldom utilised to its potential by the ministries for consultative policymaking.

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