Aarogya Setu becomes world's fastest app to reach 5 cr downloads: Niti Aayog CEO

Government's mobile app Aarogya Setu, developed for tracking coronavirus patients, has become world's fastest app to reach 5 crore downlos in just 13 days, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his dress to nation on April 14 appealed to people to downlo app. "Telephone took 75 years to reach 50 million users, rio 38 yrs, television 13 yrs, Internet 4 yrs, Facebook 19 months, Pokemon Go 19 days. AarogyaSetu, India's app to fight COVID-19 has reached 50 mn users in just 13 days-fastest ever globally for an App," Kant said in his tweet.

death toll due to coronavirus rose to 377 while number of cases in country climbed to 11,439. Aarogya Setu app alerts people if any kwn or person in ir vicinity has tested positive. District ministration has been asking all educational institutions, departments etc to push downloing of app. app was developed under a committee set up by Prime Minister's Office with active involvement of Niti Aayg and Ministry of Electronics and IT.

According to sources, Tata Consultancy Services is working on testing and some of or aspects while Tech Mahindra and Mahindra group is working with committee on next version of this application and leveraging next generation techlogies like AI, machine learning, data science.

Tech Mahindra is also working on expanding reach of Aarogya Setu on all s of phones. current version of Aarogya Setu app is fit for use on smartphones only. 

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