#SaalEkShuruaatAnek Talkathon: Union Ministers to interact directly through Twitter
330.05.2015 at 6PM
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”. In the first of its kind, the Talkathon platform would involve the participation of three Union Ministers simultaneously. Minister for Human Resource Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy, Shri Piyush Goyal and Union Minister of State (I/C) for Commerce and Industry, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman will be participating on the Talkathon platform together. The Talkathon programme is scheduled to be held for a duration of 90 minutes tomorrow i.e. 30th May, 2015 from 6 PM onwards. The program would be live from National Media Centre, New Delhi.
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.
This is the third edition of the Talkathon. It was introduced at International Film Festival of India, 2014 followed by Talkathon with Railway Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu post Rail Budget.The last edition of the Talkathon was with Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and I&B, Shri Arun Jaitley soon after he presented the Budget on March 28, 2015. The latter was especially successful with the hashtag #AskFM trending at Number 1 on Twitter. The current edition of Talkathon is a collaborative effort of the New Media Wing, Press Information Bureau and Doordarshan News under the aegis of I&B Ministry.