Meri Panchayat App:
The mobile application “Meri Panchayat” has been internationally recognized with the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2025 Champion Award.
- Meri Panchayat App is designed to provide a unified digital governance platform for rural areas, catering to residents, functionaries, and stakeholders of the Panchayati Raj Institution system.
- This platform integrates and consolidates diverse functions and information currently dispersed across multiple government portals into a single, seamless web-based interface.
- It fosters a more accountable and participatory governance ecosystem for rural communities.
- It is an initiative of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- Through Meri Panchayat App, citizens can effortlessly access, on their mobile devices:
- Real-time Panchayat budgets, receipts, payments and development plans
- Details of elected representatives and functionaries
- Information on public infrastructure and civic services in their Panchayat
- Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDPs) and track project proposals
- Weather forecasting at Gram Panchayat level
- Social audit tools, fund utilization data, and grievance redressal with geo-tagged and geo-fenced features
- Multilingual interface supporting 12+ Indian languages to ensure inclusiveness
- The app also enables citizens to propose new projects, review and rate implemented works, and access Gram Sabha agendas and decisions, thereby strengthening participatory democracy and civic engagement.
