Digital NaMo: Modi has a mobile app to talk to his cabinet

Indian PM Narendra Modi is known to be quite tech-savvy in his life, and he has never shied away from showing off his love for technology.

Recently, Modi wanted to interact with his ministers, about the 70 pro-poor government initiatives that he wants to be explained in simple terms to people for the 70th Independence Day celebrations. However, since Modi didn’t want to wait for the weekly Cabinet meeting, he sent a message to the ministers to a private group of ministers that he himself administers on the Narendra Modi mobile application, to which many of his ministers promptly replied.

Modi's Digital Cabinet, which is not visible to the public on the My Network section of the Na-Mo app, was started almost two months ago. The app allows the ministers to interact with the PM on several ideas and programmes. Another second private group on the app has only BJP’s MPs as its members.

"Unlike WhatsApp, it is a secure group as it is on our own servers," an official told ET.

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