Union Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan along with Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw successfully tested the ‘BharOS’, a 'Made In India' mobile operating system developed by IIT Madras.
Developed by IIT Madras incubated firm, JandK Operations, BharOS can be installed on commercial off-the-shelf handsets. Its services are currently being provided to organisations that have stringent privacy and security requirements and whose users handle sensitive information that requires confidential communications on restricted apps on mobiles
Pradhan said that the poor people of the country will be the main beneficiary of a strong, indigenous, dependable & self-reliant digital infrastructure. He further said that promoting policy enablers with the whole of the government approach is an applied experiment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji's vision. ‘BharOS’ is a successful step towards data privacy, he added.
BharOS comes with no default apps. This means that users are not forced to use apps that they may not be familiar with or that they may not trust.
Pradhan further added that the successful test of BharOS – the 'Made in India' mobile operating system is an important initiative towards fulfilling PM Narendra Modi ji's vision of a strong, indigenous & self-reliant digital infrastructure in India.
