India needs to fill the void left behind by Chinese apps: Ravi Shankar Prasad

The Indian government banned 59 Chinese applications in view of privacy and security concerns. This step by the government came days after the country faced off against Chinese personnel in Galwan valley, Ladakh. Soon after the apps were removed from both Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store, many Indian alternatives to these apps started gaining prominence.

Now the union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad reiterated the country’s need to build applications to fill the void left behind by some of the wildly popular Chinese applications. During the Thakur Prasad Memorial Lecture, Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & IT Ravi Shankar Prasad stated, “If we have banned few mobile applications on the grounds of national security, then we are also encouraging Indian application developers to build mobile applications.”