Hon’ble Minister
for Communications and Information Technology Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad today
launched the “e-Greetings Portal” in the presence of Shri R.S. Sharma,
Secretary Department of Electronics The e-Greetings portal has been developed
by NIC as part of the the “Digital India” initiative of the Government of
India. The current catalog of designs has been specifically designed for
sending e-Greetings for the Independence Day,
Inaugurating the portal, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad exhorted all Government
employees to send e-Greetings in future to save nature and money. He said the
innovative beginning of the Information Technology (IT) department is
in-consonance with the larger commitment of the honourable Prime Minister to
ensure that there is a proper IT revolution in India India
The objective of the portal is to promote a contemporary and eco-friendly
method of sending Greetings by Government officials and agencies to colleagues
and friends. The portal allows users to select and send a greeting from several
templates available for an occasion. The portal also allows users to select a
quote of the Hon’ble PM to be sent as part of the greeting. The Departments can
also customize the greetings by adding taglines relating to their programmes of
public interest.
e-Greetings portal is unique as most of the creative designs for the
Independence Day greetings have been crowd sourced through the recently
launched MyGov portal. The campaign was enthusiastically received by MyGov
users with 3572 designs submitted. Nearly twenty selected designs are available
on the portal.
Launched with creative designs specific to the Independence Day, the creative
designs for other national occasions and festivals are also being developed and
will be made available on the e-Greeting portal from time to time.
While the portal was initially developed for government users, it is open to
all citizens for sending greetings to their family and friends. Users can
access the portal using the link http://egreetings.india.gov.in. The link will
also be available on the India Portal and MyGov site. To send an e-Greeting, a
user needs to be a registered user of the Government Email service/MyGov
platform/India Gov platform.
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