Meri Panchayat App Latest News
The mobile application “Meri Panchayat” has been internationally recognized with the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2025 Champion Award.
About Meri Panchayat App
- It 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.
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes
- It was developed in response to requests from the WSIS stakeholders to create an effective mechanism to evaluate projects and activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development.
Source: PIB
Last updated on January, 2026
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