Given the enthusiastic response from tech entrepreneurs and Startups across the country to the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge, the Government is extending the last Date for Aatma Nirbhar App Innovation Challenge entries to July 26, 2020. The 2353 entries have been received across the eight categories identified.

The category-wise breakup of the Apps submitted includes 380 under Business, 286 under Health & Wellness, 339 under E-Learning, 414 under Social Networking,136 under Games, 238 under Office & Work from Home, 75 under News and 96 under Entertainment, around 389 Apps were submitted under the ‘others’ category.

Total entries include 1496 from individuals and about 857 from organizations and companies. Amongst those received from Individuals, around 788 applications are ready to use, and the remaining 708 are under development. For the Apps submitted by organizations, 636 Apps have already been deployed, and the remaining 221 are under development.

On July 04, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge Modi. The Challenge is hosted on the Innovate Portal of MyGov, and to participate, one can log in to https://innovate.mygov.in/app-challenge/.

Around 100 of these Apps have more than 100,000 downloads. The applicants are from all over the country, including remote and small towns. It shows the talent in our country, and this App Innovation Challenge is the right opportunity for Indian Tech Developers, Entrepreneurs, and companies to build for India at an unparalleled scale anywhere in the World. The real Challenge will be identifying robust, scalable, secure apps with an easy-to-use interface and giving users an experience that will make them return to the app.

The AatmaNirbhar Bharat App ecosystem can unlock value for Indian tech startups and help them get a piece of the multi-trillion-dollar app economy. This year, the top 3 companies with the maximum downloads of Apps have a total market cap of almost 2 trillion $s and are growing very fast.

The startups’ capability to build innovative solutions also proved with the enthusiastic response received for the Video Conferencing Innovation Challenge launched last month, which saw over 2000 applications, out of which 12 were shortlisted to make prototypes. Given the quality of solutions submitted, the Jury had to expand the list from 3 to 5, as all of them were found to have the skill set to build full-scale solutions.

The top 3 companies include Sarv Webs from Jaipur, PeopleLink from Hyderabad, and Techgentsia from Alappuzha. They have been rewarded with a grant of Rs 20 lakhs each to build the full-scale solution. The two companies ranked 4th and 5th by the Jury include Soulpage from Hyderabad and Hydrameet from Chennai. They were given a grant of Rs 15 lakhs each and are also building a full-scale solution. Four companies, namely Aria Telecom from Ghaziabad, VideoMeet from Jaipur, VacSetu from Delhi, and Zoho from Chennai, were also considered to have significant potential by the Jury. This Challenge has proved that our tech companies can build world-class solutions given the right push. Source: Press Release ID: 1639371 Date: July 17, 2020 PIB Delhi