Aarogya Setu app has more than 157 mn registered users: IT minister

Aarogya Setu, the country’s Covid-19 contact tracing app, has more than 15.7 crore registered users, Parliament was informed on Monday.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Sanjay Dhotre, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, said the app has maintained “utmost transparency” in all aspects.

He said Aarogya Setu is equipped with security features to protect the confidentiality and security of users’ data.

Replying to a specific question on low rating reportedly given by an organisation to the app, Dhotre said the rating was by an independent media company MIT Technology Review, and not the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He further said no inputs were taken from the National Informatics Centre (NIC) prior to publishing of the report.