India has turn out to be the highest nation in the world in the use of cell functions and the federal government is encouraging and selling Indian innovators to create apps, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Replying to supplementaries through the Question Hour, he stated the Digital India programme coupled with encouragement being given by the federal government to advertise Indian innovators to create apps has of late turn out to be an enormous motion.
“You will be happy to know that India has become the top country in the use of mobile applications. But we have to expand further and I”m quite sure in the coming years, Indian mobile app platforms on hosting of mobile apps will surely give a tough competition to the international platforms,” he stated.
The minister stated that the federal government has began permitting Mobile Seva AppStore to additionally host apps free of price. “In our mobile government app, all have come on board and its total download is 8.65 crore. Therefore, it is an improvement in the right direction… We are encouraging Make in India apps for Indians. We started a very good Aatmanirbhar Bharat mobile app innovation challenge in which 6,940 app developers came and we selected 25 in nine categories and also rewarded them,” he stated.
Replying to a query on whether or not the federal government is growing its personal app internet hosting platform, Prasad stated there’s already a Mobile Seva app retailer and there are state authorities messaging centres and lots of devoted messages have been despatched through the COVID-19 interval.
“But we want more innovations to come from outside the government. And that’s what our whole policies are about,” he stated. The minister stated cyber-security is necessary and in the grand problem some individuals whose merchandise have been questionable weren’t allowed. “We have also stopped some apps which were having vulnerability as far as cyber security was concerned. Cyber security is very much in the focus of our operations,” he stated.
In his written reply, Prasad stated as per India App Market Statistics report 2021, round 5 p.c apps on Android are from Indian apps builders.
“The government also noted that there has to be a proper Indian app store for hosting apps free of cost in the initial stages. Accordingly, the Mobile Seva App Store was started which, apart from hosting government apps, is also encouraging private apps to come on board. This is also in line with achieving the objectives of the Honorable Prime Minister’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat mission. Mobile Seva AppStore, which is India’s first indigenously developed app store, is hosting more than 965 live apps from various domains and categories of public services. Uploading and downloading of apps is free of cost and hassle free,” the minister stated.
He additionally stated that whereas the federal government encourages personal gamers to host apps, it’s equally eager to develop and encourage its personal cell app retailer.
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