Mobile Seva AppStore turns instant hit

- Mobile Seva App has 1,200 live hosted apps

- C-DAC also conducting state dedicated workshops to interact with budding startups

- It’s a project of MoEIT developed under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Mission

- M Services App Store available for hosting Citizen Shopping Mobile

Mumbai: The Mobile Seva AppStore (mSeva AppStore), an app store developed by the Indian government as an alternative to Google Play Store and Apple App Store, has become an instant hit, recording over 9.1 crore downloads so far. A major technological milestone for the country, the mSeva App Store has been specially created by C-DAC, Mumbai, a part of the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. There are around 1200 live hosted apps from multiple domains on this app store which is India’s first indigenous app store. mSeva can be downloaded from the official website of the app store.

Talking to Bizz Buzz, Dr Padmaja Joshi, Senior Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mumbai, said: “Our app store complies with all security and data related laws. Any citizen, government, private organization in India can register as a developer and upload their app for free. The feature of testing has also been given before publishing the app on this application store.”

C-DAC is also conducting state dedicated workshops to interact with budding startups for the National App Store and Single Sign-On, a project of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology developed under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Mission, she added. In this series, orientation workshops are going to be organized in Indore on April 20, 2023.

The Indian app store is available for hosting Citizen Shopping Mobile. This is a novel initiative aimed at mainstreaming the mobile app industry in the country. Besides, India’s data will also be safe. As part of its outreach activities, mSeva has launched a national level innovative app competition. Entries are invited under five categories.

Joshi further stated that “the App Store is available for government and public services. mServices is based on service-oriented architecture and cloud-based technologies, service of government department, private developer mobile app to provide government and other public services related to health, education, agriculture, financial, online payment, election related user website from mobile The service can be downloaded from our app store.” The mobile service (mServices) has been launched by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and provides mobile services through various channels such as SMS for all government access and status in the country at central, state and local levels. C-DAC has a central cloud-based mobile affiliate partnership to provide its services through IVRS, Mobile App and App Store to enable rapid introduction of services offering through mobile devices anywhere in India.