Good news for Indian tech entrepreneurs and startups. Government of India launches Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge. This has been launched to support and build a strong ecosystem for Indian Apps.
The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) have partnered with NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission ( AIM) to launch this initiative.
The AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge will be run on 2 tracks. 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
- Games
- There may be several sub categories within each category.
Subsequent to this App Innovation Challenge, Government will also launch Track 2 of the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge that will seek to identify Indian start ups / entrepreneurs /companies and encourage them with ideation, incubation, prototyping and roll out of applications. This track will run for a longer course of a time.
The Innovation Challenge will be available on innovate.mygov.in/app-challenge from 4th July 2020. The last date of submission of entries is 18th July 2020. The applicants need to apply online to submit their proposals by registering and logging on to the MyGov portal – www.mygov.in.
