Indian Government Launches "Digital India AtmaNirbhar Bharat Innovate challenge" for Indian App Developers

A Golden opportunity for Indian App developers from the government of India in which if they participate in the Digital AatmNirbhar Bharat innovate challenge and their application gets selected then they can get a chance to win a reward of up to Rs 20 Lakhs.

Indian Government giving a chance to Application developers Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission – Niti Aayog launches "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.

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:

1. Office Productivity & Work from Home
2. Social Networking
3. E-Learning
4. Entertainment
5. Health & Wellness
6. Business including Agritech and Fintech
7. News
8. Games

There may be several subcategories within each category.

List of Subcategories and problem statements:

• 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 the 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 the mobile device
• 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 user.
• A mobile application offering satellite imagery and street maps, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or 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.

Eligibility Criteria

Only Indian entrepreneurs and start-ups will be eligible to submit their entries in various categories.

Important Dates

Launch of Innovation Challenge	4th July 2020, on innovate.mygov.in
Last date for Submission	18th July 2020 at 5:30 P.M
Screening of Entries Received	20th to 24th July 2020
Evaluation by the Jury	27th July to 3rd August 2020
Final Announcement	7th August 2020

Awards

Following Awards will be given in each of the Eight Categories.

First Prize	20 Lakhs
Second Prize	15 Lakhs
Third Prize	10 Lakhs

For more information Visit Official Site.