The Government of India has ordered a ban on 119 apps. This is being claimed in some reports. These are all videos and voice chat platforms, which are connected to China and Hong Kong. The government has banned several apps even before security reasons. The process of banning a large number of apps began in the year 2020. At that time the company banned Chinese apps like Tiktok and Shareit.
Decision taken keeping in mind security concerns
The government banned several apps in 2021 and 2022, but their number was low. These apps have been banned under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. It has also affected the apps of Singapore, America, Europe and Australia. Which became very popular. All these apps were banned for security reasons. On 20 June 2020, the Government of India banned around 100 Chinese apps. The government has already taken action. Most of the apps of this list are still available on Google Play. Available for download on the store. Only 15 apps have been removed. Only three apps have been identified in this list of 119 apps. It also includes Singapore -based video chatting and gaming app Chilchat. Which has been developed by the Mangosar team.
Millions of users on the play store
This app is downloaded by millions of users on the Play Store and has a rating of 4.1 stars. In addition, there is also a Chinese app called Changaf, which is developed by Blome. The third name is the Honeyicomb app, which runs the Australian company Shelin PTY Limited. Apps say that it has received information about the ban from Google and is working with Indian officials to resolve the issue. Chilchat is a Singapore based app with millions of users. The company says that blocking them will affect their Indian users. However, the Ministry has not released any information in this regard. This information came from the Lumen Database, which was later removed.
