Clarion Call From PM To Indian App Makers.

Existing and News Apps to get support from Innovation Challenge launched by IT Ministry.

•  Challenge will run in two tracks—Promotion of Existing Apps and Development of New Apps.
• Track-01 will work for identifying good quality apps for the leader-board and will be completed in around a month.
• Track-02 initiative will work to help create new champions by providing help in ideation, incubation, prototyping and roll out along with market access.
• For promotion of apps and platforms across the categories of e-learning,work-from-home, gaming, business, entertainment, office utilities and social networking, the govt will provide mentoring and hand-holding.

A few days after the government banned 59 Chinese apps, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday invited the start-up and tech community to participate in the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge’.

Prime Minister Modi also said that it will help create an ‘aatmanirbhar app ecosystem’. “Who knows, I may also use some of these apps made by you,” he said in a write-up on LinkedIn. Today there is immense enthusiasm among the tech and start-up community to create world class made in India apps, Modi said.

“To facilitate their ideas and products,the ministry of electronics and information technology, along with the Atal Innovation Mission, are launching the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge’,” the Prime Minister tweeted, sharing the link to

the LinkedIn post. Modi had given a call for an ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and had urged people to be ‘vocal for local’ products.

While sharing the write-up “Let us Code for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat”, he said, “I urge all my friends in the tech community to participate,”. 

SEVERAL TIKTOK STARS who enjoyed millions of followers might have to make a fresh

start, but many are willing to do so in the name of patriotism. They have ample help from made-in-India offerings. Chingari, is one of them. The social networking app is witnessing 2-3 million downloads per day after the ban and had 15 million downloads as of Friday evening, shooting to number one app in social networking on the App Store.

Other apps like Mitron, Roposo, Dubsmash and Bolo Indya are some other Indian players that offer a platform for uploading short format video content and promise to be good alternatives to Chinese offerings.