Not only in India but in the whole world, the coin of Bauzers like Google Chrome, Micrassoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox runs. Now India is preparing to make its own browser. If there will be its own browser in a country with a population of 140 crores like India, then there is a big shock for Google and Microsoft companies. But the Government of India has indicated to make the country's IT companies its own browser. Even the government organized a competition to develop many startups and IT companies in the country to develop a browser. In which three best companies were also shortlisted. Let us also tell you which are the three companies who received the Best browser maker award.
India has a strong IT sector with more than $ 282 billion revenue. Till now the focus on services has been focused. The Government of India is promoting start-ups, academics to develop software products. Its goal is to develop India as a product nation. The government challenged to develop indigenous browser. Educationists, startups, students, researchers reacted enthusiastically. A total of 58 entries were done. After the intensive evaluation process, 3 winners were shortlisted.
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav today announced the winners of the web browser challenge. In which the first prize was given to the team Zoho. Joho was given an amount of one crore rupees as a award. The second award was received by Ping and a prize money of 75 lakh rupees was given. The third prize was received by the team Ajna and he was given a reward of 50 lakh rupees. He said that it was happy to see that the winners are coming from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. Browser is the entrance to the Internet. Surfing, email, e-office, online transactions etc. are mostly on the browser. Developing a browser is soon the first solid step towards the construction of the entire Indian concrete stack.
If the country has its own browser, then it can have many benefits. The first and biggest advantage will be of data security. In this, the data of the country will be in the country itself and will be under the supervision of the government of the country. The second biggest advantage is that of privacy which will be in line with the Data Safety Act. The data of Indian citizens will remain only in India. This browser will be compatible with iOS, Windows and Android. Now you can understand that if India has its own browser, then how much and what kind of benefits can be there.
