PM Narendra Modi launches app innovation challenge to promote home-grown apps

This initiative will be regulated under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology along with Atal Innovation Mission and run in two tracks

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05 Jul 2020, 12:00 am

Guwahati: Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India launched the Aatmanirbhar Innovation Challenge, inviting India's tech and community to create an Aatmanirbhar App Ecosystem on Saturday.

This comes after the Indian Government had banned 59 Chinese apps including trending apps TikTok, SHAREit, and others amidst the anti-China sentiment due to tension on the India-China border.

"This challenge is for you if you have such a working project or if you feel you have the vision and expertise to create such products. I urge all my friends in the tech community to participate." PM Modi tweeted.

Today there is immense enthusiasm among the tech & start-up community to create world class Made in India Apps. To facilitate their ideas and products @GoI_MeitY and @AIMtoInnovate are launching the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge. https://t.co/h0xqjEwPko
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 4, 2020

This initiative will be regulated under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology along with Atal Innovation Mission and run in two tracks: Promotion of Existing Apps and Development of New Apps.

"Today when the entire nation is working towards creating an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, It is a good opportunity to give direction to their efforts, momentum to their hard-work and mentorship to their talent to evolve Apps which can satisfy our market as well as compete with the world." PM Modi's LinkedIn post said.

Under track 1, the government of India will work in mission mode for recognizing good quality Apps for the leader-board and shall be accomplished in around a month. It will comprise prevailing apps and platforms in categories like E-Learning, work from home, gaming, business, entertainment, etc.

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