AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Challenge Deadline To Be Extended

Recently, the Indian government banned 59 Chinese apps as they pose a threat to user privacy. Following that The AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovation App Challenge was launched to identify the best Indian Apps in eight different categories such as office productivity and work from home, social networking, e-learning, entertainment, health, and wellness, Business including agritech and fintech, News and Games.

The challenge was launched on July 4 with July 18 as its initial deadline. Now the government has extended the deadline to July 26. The government has started this to get more Indian apps into the market. The main motive of the challenge is to “create an ecosystem where Indian entrepreneurs and Startups are incentivized to ideate, incubate, build, nurture and sustain Tech solutions that can serve not only citizens within India but also the world.”

The government aims to maintain its sovereignty over the country’s cyberspace. 2,353 entries have been registered in the eight categories so far. 286 in the health and wellness segment, 339 in e-learning, 414 in social networking apps, 136 entries in games, 238 office, and work from home apps, 75 news, and 96 under the entertainment segment. Around 389 app entries have been submitted under the ‘others’ category.

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that it is time India ends its reliance on foreign countries and technologies that push their own agendas. They want to make India self-reliant and push the “Make in India” initiative to make this operation a success.