India has stepped on the path of India becoming self-reliant after China banned 59 apps. At the same time, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has introduced the digital and self-sufficient India Innovation Challenge. Along with this, PM Modi has given information about this challenge by tweeting. Through the partnership of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog has started the Digital India Self-Reliant India Innovation Challenge in which you have to create mobile games, social media and photo-video editing apps. Under this challenge, you can get a reward of up to Rs 20 lakh. At the same time, the mantra of this challenge is 'Make in India for India and the World'.

Categories of Self-reliant India Innovation Challenge
Office Productivity and Work from Home
social networking
E-learning
Entertainment
Health and wellness
Agritech and Fintech
News
Games

Sub-categories of Self-reliant India Innovation Challenge
A facial recognition / body mapping app that allows people to virtually try on matching clothes and eyeglass frames before purchasing.
Real time speech-to-speech translation and camera translation app
Mobile App for Cloud Email
Image scan, image editing and text recognition app
Apps that facilitate cloud storage which also has the facility to transfer files
Anti-virus app for mobile device
Mobile device cache clearing app
Mobile app for video conferencing
Apps for messaging and video calling
App for micro blogging
News app equipped with machine learning

Mapping app
Mobile based online gaming platform
Photo editing app equipped with all facilities
Important things about self-reliant India Innovation Challenge
Website-innovate.mygov.in

Last date for application - 18 July 2020 till 5.30 pm
Screening of application - 20-24 July 2020
Jury Assessment - 27 July - 3 August 2020
Winner Announced - 7 August 2020

Reward for categories of Self-reliant India Innovation Challenge
First prize - 20 lakh rupees
Second prize - Rs 15 lakhs
Third prize - Rs 10 lakh

Reward for the sub-categories of Self-reliant India Innovation Challenge
First Prize - Rs 5 Lakh
Second prize - Rs 3 lakh
Third prize - Rs 2 lakh.

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