- These 10 companies will get ₹5 lakh each to develop the prototype of Video Conferencing App
- The winner will get ₹1 Crore and the contract of deployment from Central and State Governments
In April 2020, Indian Government had launched a challenge to invite Indian companies for building up an alternative to video conferencing app Zoom. Now, after one month the government has selected 10 companies including HCL, Zoho, Aria Telecom, CyberHorizon Corp, Darsh, Instrive Softlabs, PeopleLink Unified Communications and Data Ingenious in the first round under this challenge.
These companies will develop a prototype, which should be at par with the international standards. These 10 companies will get ₹10 lakh each to build the prototype.
In the second round, three companies will be selected from these 10 to develop the complete solution and for the development the companies will get ₹20 lakh each.
Finally the best one from these three companies will get the final contract to deploy the platform for Indian government and state governments for a period of four years. The winner will get ₹1 Crore for the first year and ₹10 lakh per year for next three years for the operations and maintenance.