Do you have questions for the Modi government on its performance in its first year in office? Here's your chance to ask and get a response.
Union ministers Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman will field questions posed by the public today (30 May) at 6 pm in a live talkathon organised by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
All you have to do is put your question on Twitter with the hashtag #AskYourGovt and post the query to the Twitter handle of the Ministry @MIB_India.
Watch the Twitter talkathon live on the video below.
You can watch the live event on the YouTube channel of the I&B Ministry or on Doordarshan's official YouTube channel.
You can also get live updates on pib.nic.in, india.gov.in.
#Talkathon- Union Ministers to interact directly with netizens through @TwitterIndia using #AskYourGovt at 6 PM today pic.twitter.com/D5VVG2dVZT
— MIB India (@MIB_India) May 30, 2015
The latest talkathon is an initiative by the Modi government to highlight its achievements after completing one year in office; it also gives the people an opportunity to seek responses from ministers on several political issues. Here is a jist of some of the questions already posted:
Why No of Dustbins in the cities not increased in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign, if so please furnish details #AskYourGovt — kalpana (@sandhya_120) May 30, 2015
#AskYourGovt Why govt. is failed to control on missionary conversion issue ? why law is not being made to stop this.
— Sumit Katiyar (@iSKatiyar) May 30, 2015
@nsitharaman why ministry of finance d'nt reply officially on serious concern of banks students put on hold by them.#Askyourgovt — ankur siddhu (@ankur_siddhu) May 30, 2015
This is the third edition of a Twitter Talkathon by the government, with the previous two held by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu following the Rail Budget and by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley after he presented the General Budget on 28 February, 2015.
