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#Post 18 : Make In India Video Conferencing Solution

As you all know that the nation is in Lockdown from 25th March and due to that issue, schools, offices and all the industries are not able to perform as per their standards. All the industries are using the online platform in order to communicate with the colleagues for office work and even the educational institutions are also using the online platform to proceed with the education process for the completion of the studies of the students. 


Zoom, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams and other products were used for the video conferencing and to proceed with the office work and for the education. Overnight, Zoom became popular among all the other products as people were using Zoom more and more for the work. Later on the Indian Government announced that the Zoom app is not secure and not to use for the official or educational purpose as the data are not secure. 



The Government came up with a new proposal of building the video conferencing solution to the developers and invited them to build the product and the company who will build the best product will have the chance of winning 1 crore from the government. 

As we all know that the IT industry has the capacity to work from home and they are the people who need the assistance and continuous involvement of the other colleagues within a project and for them, the video conferencing application is must. The initiative of the government has three phases: 

Stage 1: In the first stage, the team has to come up with the detailed report of their app concept and also with the features. Among that team, the Government will look into thee app concept and top team will be selected and rewarded with 5 lakh rupees to go ahead to develop the app. 

Stage 2: In the second stage, the top 10 teams have to present their prototype to the jury of the member selected by the Government of India and they will select the 3 team among the 10 team to build the final product with the 20 lakh rupee to complete the app. 

Stage 3: In the last stage, the Indian Government will announce the winning team and they will be rewarded with Rs1 Crore and also they will receive the official certification signed by Ministry of Electronics & IT. 

The winning App will be used by both Central and State Government for 1 year and the developer team will receive 10 lakhs per year for operations and maintenance. This is a good initiative taken by the Government of India for Make In India. 


Currently the Government has shortlisted the 10 companies who are going to build the prototype are: Zoho, HCL Technologies, PeopleLink, Aria Telecom, CyberHorizon Corp, Instrive Softlabs, PeopleLink Unified Communications Sarv Webs, Soulpage IT Solutions, Techgentsia Software Technologies and Data Ingnious. 

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