PM Launches ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge’

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has launched ”Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge” to facilitate the techies and start-up community to create world-class Made in India Apps.

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It is an initiative of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology along with Atal Innovation Mission. This challenge will be jointly hosted by the Government and members of the tech community to make it more holistic.

It has been launched to identify the best Indian Apps that are already being used by citizens and have the potential to scale and become world class Apps in their respective categories.

This will run in two tracks:

Promotion of Existing Apps: Track one will work in mission mode for identifying good quality Apps for the leader-board and will be completed in around a month.

Development of New Apps: Track two initiative will work to help create new champions in India by providing support in ideation, incubation, prototyping and roll out along with market access. This track will run for a longer course of a time.

Track 1 is being launched in the following 8 broad categories: Office Productivity & Work from Home; Social Networking; E-Learning; Entertainment; Health & Wellness; Business including Agritech and Fin-tech; News; and Games.