The 'Neta' App Lets Voters Rate Their Local Politician, Report Issues

"Neta – Leaders' Study Carte" , an app that seeks to connect voters with political leaders, was downloaded over 1 lakh times on Google Play Store within hours of launch on Th.

The app, which enables voters to rate their MLAs and MPs with an aim to bring transparency and accountability among political leaders, was formally launched on Fri by one-time President Pranab Mukherjee.

Developed by Flipped Pvt Ltd, the stated mission of the app is to increment transparency, strengthen participatory governance and ensure accountability of leaders. Speaking on the occasion, Mukherjee said the online platform would strengthen Indian commonwealth's feedback mechanism.

"The app will provide people's feedback to politicians, framers of public policy, implementers and even corporate sector. In republic, feedback has important role since it gives an opportunity of empirical evidence for gauging public mood and take grade correction. Launching of this app is a welcome stride in strengthening our democracy's feedback mechanism," he said.

The app has been adult past 27-year-old Pratham Mittal, whose family runs Jalandhar-based Lovely Professional University (LPU). Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Marriage Minister of State of Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla, onetime Union Ministers Shivraj Patil, Murli Manohar Joshi and Ashwani Kumar, and former Chief Election Commissioners S.Y. Quraishi and Nasim Zaidi were amidst those present at the launch anniversary held at Mukherjee'due south official residence in the national capital.

Mukherjee further said the biggest claiming in a big democracy like India was ineligibility of citizens to actively participate in the policy-making process. "This app is an instance how new ii-way channel can exist used effectively," he said, adding: "We must ensure our aspiration does not become unheeded. A proficient democracy cannot work without informed voters, skilful leaders and complete transparency and accountability."

Kejriwal said the newly-launched app could exist an culling to opinion polls carried out past news channels. "The stance polls past news channels appear more than of entertainment (value)… People remember the news channels must have been bribed (to show biased opinion polls). It has come to fore in recent sting operations," he said.

"Now people volition say do non watch news channels only Neta app." The app would not assistance just voters just also political parties in deciding the candidates during an election, he added. Over i.5 crore verified voters take already rated or reviewed their local leaders across all 543 parliamentary constituencies and 4,120 assembly constituencies in the country on the app, inside eight months, the developers said.

Mittal said that app uses multiple mediums IVR calls, SMS, Artificial Intelligence, algorithms and Aadhaar numbers to ensure genuine voters. Subsequently downloading the app, i needs to put the pivot number of the area that concerns a particular user and it shows a list of politicians from different parties who contested the terminal Lok Sabha elections.

Ane can vote for a particular politician or skip this step to become alee and use other features of the app. Now, the app features polls on various "local" and "national" problems that let users to participate in a discussion and as well state whether they are happy with the performance of a particular Main Minister or not. The users of the app can also meet which politician is ahead of others in terms of votes.

Source: https://beebom.com/neta-app-india/

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