NEW DELHI: An app that allows voters to rate and review their political representatives and aims to foster political accountability and transparency among leaders was launched here on Friday.

Aptly called Neta app, which was unveiled by former President Pranab Mukherjee , the technology platform will let users rate their MLAs and MPs and is being billed as an instrument to gauge voter sentiment across constituencies in the country. “A good democracy cannot function without informed voters, good leaders, accountability and complete transparency,” Mukherjee said at the launch of the app created by 27-year-old entrepreneur Pratham Mittal.

Mittal said the platform uses combination of Artificial Intelligence, advanced algorithms, one time password and Aadhaar numbers to ensure that the voters who rate leaders are genuine. The app in its beta version has already seen over 1.5 crore voters rating and reviewing their local leaders.

