Sandes : The Modi government has developed an indigenous instant messaging platform to compete with WhatsApp. This information was provided by the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. Rajiv Chandrashekhar in reply to a question asked by Rodmal Nagar in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Sandes is a secure, cloud enabled platform.
Rajeev Chandrashekhar said that the National Informatics Center (NIC). Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has developed an indigenous solution SANEDS for instant messaging platform. SANDES is an open source based, secure, cloud enabled platform hosted on government infrastructure so that strategic control remains with the Government of India.
Many great features have given.
It has been provided with features like one-to-one and group messaging, file and media sharing, audio video calls and e-governance application integration etc. This platform is being use by the government and is available on Google Play Store and App Store.
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When asked what measures have taken by the government to curb Facebook, Twitter and other foreign social media, Rajeev Chandrashekhar said that social media platforms are intermediaries as defined in the Information Technology Act 2000. In order to ensure accountability of social media platforms to users and enhance user safety. The Government has notified the Information Technology Rules, 2021 under this Act. Which prescribes due diligence to observed by all intermediaries including social media intermediaries. Is.
5G service has not started in the country yet
5G services have not started in the country yet. In reply to a question, Minister of State for Communications Devu Singh Chouhan gave this information in Lok Sabha. He informed that DoT has given permission to telecom service providers Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea Limited on May 27, 2021.MTNL on June 23, 2021 to start 5G technology trials with a validity period of 6 months.
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