When Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for turning hardship into opportunities here is school boy in Bengal residing not far from Kharagpur IIT who has taken up the challenge and delivered the ‘goods’ as well as services.
Even as Trinamool Congress MP and Bengali cine star Nusrat Jahan has attacked the Centre for its knee-jerk decision to ban Chinese apps without arranging for any backup systems causing job losses to thousands of people, a Class XII student from Midnapore has come out with an alternative system to replace much popular Chinese App TikTok et al, sources said.
Named “Inosens” the new App was created by Priyanshu Singh a student of a private school of Midnapore not far from Khargagpur IIT and his friend Shivam Singh during the lockdown period. The App is available in the Google Play Store, sources said adding the App has been prepared along the lines of the most popular Chinese Apps.
The students of DAV Public School have created the App confirming to the cyber security laws, one was told.
The new development comes after the Central Government banned 59 Chinese Apps amid a heavy build up along the Indo-China borders and in the wake of the neigbouring country’s aggression in Ladakh border that led to 20 Indian Army men being martyred on June 15.
Meanwhile Nusrat Jahan a popular actor and TMC MP from Basirhat camedown heavily on the Narendra Modi Government for banning the Chinese Apps without providing adequate backup Apps triggering a job loss for thousands of people during a period when the country was already passing through a recession on account of corona pandemic.
“The Government has taken a very rash decision by banning the Chinese Apps which has not done any good to the people many of whom have lost their jobs and that too in this pandemic times,” Jahan said adding the “ban is always welcome because there can be nothing dearer than motherland but before that the people’s interests should have been kept in mind by creating adequate alternatives.”
Maybe India “could have approached the Googles, Nasa or whatever to get alternative Apps before taking this decision so that thousands of jobs could have been saved,” she said.