Current Affairs - Awards and Honours - Discussion

India's Umang App has won the Best M-Government Service award in the Accessible Government category while Aadhaar won the best emerging technology award at the recently concluded 6th edition of the World Government Summit 2018 in Dubai, where India had the status of 'Guest of Honour' country. The summit acknowledged technology pioneers for providing global solutions to global challenges. The mobile application "Umang App" provides users a unified platform that combines government departments and services, facilitating transactions for citizens. The award acknowledged Government of India's efforts to provide convenient services to its citizens. The Aadhaar project was recognized as the world's largest biometric enabled identification programme which provides access to service income tax, passport services, bank accounts, social services benefits aimed at providing 1.2 billion citizens unique identification card with fingerprint, eye-print and other vital data.