PM Modi launches Made in India apps innovation challenge

According to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today, there is immense enthusiasm among the tech and start-up community to create world-class Made in India apps. To facilitate their ideas and products @GoI_MeitY and @AIMtoInnovate are launching the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.

MeitY in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission – Niti Aayog launched the Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovate Challenge 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 Innovation Challenge, with various cash awards and incentives of featuring Apps on Leader Boards, seeks to create an ecosystem where Indian entrepreneurs and Startups are incentivised to ideate, incubate, build, nurture and sustain Tech solutions that can serve not only citizens within India but also the world.

The Mantra is: to Make in India for India and the World.

The AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge 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 Fintech
• News
• Games

There may be several sub categories within each category.

Indicative list of sub categories
* A mobile application harnessing the most accurate facial and / or body mapping technology to allow for a true-to-life virtual try out of products like spectacles, clothes, etc.
* Mobile application for real-time speech-to-speech translation and camera translation of multiple languages.
* An automated web-based application that handles business-to-business lead generation and cold emailing and is completely manageable from a mobile device itself.
* Application to use mobile devices as image scanners with features like on the fly image correction, image editing, text recognition, etc.
* Application to provide cloud storage integration, cross-platform file transfer via FTP or LAN, and a root browser on mobile device
* A robust indigenous anti-virus software for mobile devices.
* Application to optimize mobile device's performance by cleaning junk/cache files, optimizing device memory and optimizing battery usage.
* A mobile-based live streaming platform for hosting webinars, lectures, etc.
* A mobile-based messaging and video calling application
* A mobile-based microblogging application
* A mobile-based news application that uses cutting-edge technology to recommend the most relevant and interesting news individually to each use.
* A mobile application offering satellite imagery and street maps, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or with public transportation.
* A mobile-based online gaming platform which also functions as a social hub for gamers
* A mobile-based photo-editing application with all standard image editing features.