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Aarogya Setu app made in most transparent way: Govt reply to CIC show-cause

Adds that app was launched in a record 21 days under PPP to bring people together in fight against Covid

Aarogya Setu, the contact tracing app which this high-powered team went on to build and is continuing to refine, is aimed at mapping the contacts of users by analysing GPS data

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The government said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is taking necessary steps to comply with the orders of the CIC.

Samreen Ahmad Bengaluru

2 min read Last Updated : Oct 28 2020 | 10:49 PM IST

Served show-cause notices by the Central Information Commission (CIC) on Wednesday over ‘evasive answers’ to RTI applications about who created the Aarogya Setu app, the Central government responded saying the app was launched in the most transparent manner. The app was brought out in a record time of 21 days under public-private partnership to bring the people of the country together in the fight against Covid-19.

“The Aarogya Setu App was developed in a record time of around 21 days, to respond to the exigencies of the Pandemic with Lockdown restrictions only for the objective of building a Made in

Topics : Coronavirus Central Information Commission National Informatics Centre

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