After India Banned 59 Chinese Phone apps, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation challenge.

PM Modi Tweeted:

This challenge is for you if you have such a working product 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.

Sharing my thoughts in my @LinkedIn post. https://t.co/aO5cMYi4SH

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 4, 2020

The challenge is launched in eight categories E-learning, Gaming, Business, Entertainment, Work-from-Home, Office Utilities, and Social Networking.  

The Aatmanirbhar Bharat Innovation challenge will be regulated under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and Atal Innovation Mission. It will run in two tracks: Promotion of Existing Apps and Development of New Apps.

• Track-01:  will work in mission mode for identifying good quality Apps for the leader-board and shall be completed in around a month.
• Track-02: the government will help in incubating new apps and will work to help create new champions in India by providing support in incubation, ideation, and roll out along with market access.

#InnovationChallenge | @GoI_MeitY in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission – @NITIAayog launches 'Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovate Challenge' to identify the best Indian Apps.

For more details, visit – https://t.co/B4TjJtXA9X

— Ministry of Electronics & IT (@GoI_MeitY) July 4, 2020

The result of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App innovation challenge will give better clarity and visibility to existing Apps to achieve their goals, and to create new tech products to find solutions to tech problems with the help of tech mentorship, support, and guidance during the entire life-cycle. 

At last PM Modi has urged start-up and tech community to participate and create an Aatmanirbhar ecosystem.

To participate in Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Login on https://innovate.mygov.in/app-challenge/#tab6

Information Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/let-us-code-aatmanirbhar-bharat-narendra-modi/?published=t