Three Union Ministers to interact directly with citizens on Saturday through Twitter
Updated: May 29, 2015 04:20:44pm
New Delhi, May 29 (KNN) Tomorrow the citizens can directly put up their questions in the front of the Union Ministers, to which they will reply directly. On completion of one year in power, three Union Ministers - Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal - will simultaneously hold ‘talkathon’, direct interaction with the citizens through social media site twitter, on May 30.
“As part of its initiative to highlight the achievements of the Government in the last one year, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is organizing “Talkathon”,” according to an official statement.
Minister for Human Resource Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal and Union Minister of State (I/C) for Commerce and Industry, Nirmala Sitharaman will be participating on the Talkathon platform together.
The Talkathon programme is scheduled to be held for a duration of 90 minutes on Saturday from 6 PM onwards. The program would be live from National Media Centre in the national capital.
Talkathon is an initiative by the New Media Wing of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting which connects the virtual space with physical world. Under the platform, participants in the social media space can post questions on Twitter which would be answered by the guests in real-time.
“The users may use the hashtag#AskYourGovt to post their queries to the Twitter handle of the Ministry @MIB_India. The speakers/experts shall reply to the queries posted on Twitter, in real time. The event would be webcasted LIVE on YouTube channel of the Ministry (www.youtube.com/inbministry), pib.nic.in, india.gov.in,www.youtube.com/DDNewsofficial and DD News,” said the statement.
This is the third edition of the Talkathon. It was introduced at International Film Festival of India, 2014 followed by Talkathon with Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu post Rail Budget.The last edition of the Talkathon was with Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and I&B, Arun Jaitley soon after he presented the Budget on March 28, 2015. (KNN Bureau)
“As part of its initiative to highlight the achievements of the Government in the last one year, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is organizing “Talkathon”,” according to an official statement.
Minister for Human Resource Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal and Union Minister of State (I/C) for Commerce and Industry, Nirmala Sitharaman will be participating on the Talkathon platform together.
The Talkathon programme is scheduled to be held for a duration of 90 minutes on Saturday from 6 PM onwards. The program would be live from National Media Centre in the national capital.
Talkathon is an initiative by the New Media Wing of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting which connects the virtual space with physical world. Under the platform, participants in the social media space can post questions on Twitter which would be answered by the guests in real-time.
“The users may use the hashtag#AskYourGovt to post their queries to the Twitter handle of the Ministry @MIB_India. The speakers/experts shall reply to the queries posted on Twitter, in real time. The event would be webcasted LIVE on YouTube channel of the Ministry (www.youtube.com/inbministry), pib.nic.in, india.gov.in,www.youtube.com/DDNewsofficial and DD News,” said the statement.
This is the third edition of the Talkathon. It was introduced at International Film Festival of India, 2014 followed by Talkathon with Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu post Rail Budget.The last edition of the Talkathon was with Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and I&B, Arun Jaitley soon after he presented the Budget on March 28, 2015. (KNN Bureau)
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