10 crore users downloaded Aarogya Setu App

Aarogya Setu app has crossed the number of 10 crore registered users in just 41 days of its launch. This app was launched on 2 April. This app launched by the government was created to monitor Corona virus infected people and alert healthy people about them, however, questions have also been raised on this app due to security reasons. It is noteworthy that this app made headlines among the people when it was said that with the help of this app, the spread of the dangerous corona virus epidemic will be prevented. This app was made mandatory in many places. This app was prepared with the collaboration of NITI Aayog and some team.

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant announced through a tweet on Wednesday that the Aarogya Setu app has crossed the figure of 10 crore registered users. 10 crore people have also been crossed on its in-app banner, which announced that 10.02 crore Indians are using the Aarogya Setu app. Let us tell you, within three days of its launch last month, 50 lakh people had installed this app on their smartphones and this figure had crossed 9.8 crore in the last week itself.

Apart from the success of registered users, Aarogya Setu app has also made its place among the top three apps of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store in India. Not only for smartphones, the Arogya Setu app team has also expanded this app to Jio phones and landline and feature phone consumers. Recently, a toll-free service has been launched under Aarogya Setu Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS), in which ‘1921’ toll free number has been issued for feature phone and landline citizens. After making a missed call on this number, they will get a call back, in this call inputs related to your health will be taken.

Mandatory use — the key behind its success?

Crossing the Rs 10 crore mark after one and a half months of launch is definitely a big success for the Arogya Setu app, with this the app has become one of the fastest growing apps in the world. However, achieving success for the Arogya Setu app was not as difficult as it is for other commercial apps. The reason is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself promoted it in his address.

Apart from this, the government has made it mandatory for all government and private employees to install this app on their smartphones. According to the guidelines recently issued by the Home Ministry, it will be the responsibility of the head of the organization to ensure that this app is installed on the smartphones of all employees.

Similarly, Arogya Setu app has also been made mandatory for passengers traveling by train during the lockdown, whoever is traveling must have this app in their phone. Along with this, food delivery workers and people delivering other goods will also have to download it on their phones. It is because of all these essentials that Arogya Setu App has emerged as such a successful app in such a short time.

However, since its launch, some groups have called this app a threat to the privacy of users and criticized it. Not only this, Robert Baptiste, a French security researcher, claimed that the Aarogya Setu app contains a “security loophole”, a problem which has put the privacy of crores of Indians at stake. However, the Union IT Minister later refuted all these claims, calling Arogya Setu a very strong app in terms of privacy protection and data security.