Does ban on Chinese apps making way for indigenous apps?
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On the Centre’s decision of ban on Chinese apps, IIT Kharagpur experts said that the decision has created space for indigenous replacements and enabled the institute to work on sponsored projects while helping start- ups.
"We are planning a move for submission of app development projects by students which we can sponsor," IIT’s Director Virendra Kumar Tewari said in a statement.
He also stressed on the necessity of holding Hackathon, a competition for students to develop digital solutions for real-life problems, at the national level engaging talents from technical institutes for developing mobile applications.
"Last year the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had successfully organised several Hackathons in hardware, software, rural technology etc. We have a proven track record in delivering efficient and economically viable technologies. Let us seize this opportunity. The market has only been liberated, we can say, inward, this time," Tewari said.
Dean of Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy Suman Chakraborty said, "The ban has created a supply imbalance in the market which will attract Indian startups to fill the void."
The country's technological research has reached a level where designing such products indigenously should not be a challenge at all, he said.
"Take for example the healthcare domain, the available innovations in healthcare devices and analytics can be improvised further to develop healthcare apps of the highest scientific and technological standard which can replace several foreign-bred mobile applications," he said.
India banned 59 apps with Chinese links, including the hugely popular TikTok and UC Browser, saying they were prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity and security of the country.
The ban came in the backdrop of a military standoff between the two countries along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and the killing of 20 Indian Army personnel in a clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley.
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