By Newsgram Staff Writer

Government plans to make PMO just a touch away and has initiated a process to create an app to digitally connect citizens and government. The government will also send the person/team that develops the application to visit headquarters of Google in US.

The Minister for Communication & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, kick started a three phased contest in New Delhi.

The contest hosted by the government`s citizen engagement platform MyGov, in association with Google, will take place over a period of three months. At the end of the ideation, wireframe development and the App development phases, the best app will be presented to the PMO. The winning team will also get to visit Google headquarters in USA.

The contest is open to all Indian citizens above 18 years of age who are registered on MyGov. An independent jury constituted by MyGov will be judging the participant at the end of each phase.