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Web Portal And Apps Launched Recently

(Jan-Aug)
Portal or App Name

January
Launched by

RTA portals
jharbhoom.nic.in
E-track management system

BSE
Jharkhand
Railway Ministry

Kilkari

Union Health and Family

Welfare Minister J P Nadda

Mobile Academy

Union Health and Family

Welfare Minister J P Nadda

M-Cessation

Union Health and Family

Welfare Minister J P Nadda

DVAT BILL app

Delhi government

willing to quit tobacco use and

support them towards successful
quitting through text messages.
To boost tax collection

Udio
Raagam
disabilityjobs.gov.in
1880

TranServ
AIR
GOI
Uttar Pradesh

Indias first social mobile wallet

247 classical music channel
National Job Portal for PwDs
Helpline number for journalists

MITRA app

Puducherry Lt Governor AK
Singh

Indian Customs Guide to Travellers

app

Sandeep Kumar Rawal

Immediate Payment Service (IMPS)

Andhra Bank

Virtual Card

FreeCharge,Master Card&
Yes Bank

to ensure safety and security of

women, children and the elderly
during emergency.
To provides contact details of
customs officers at major Indian
airports.
To makes payments possible within
fraction of seconds with all the
standards maintained for security
To allows users to pay for goods
and services at online shops and
offline retailers.

Portal or App Name

February
Launched by

YouTube channel

ArunJaitley

Digital CRM platform

CRMNEXT

247 toll free Tourist Infoline

Dr. Mahesh Sharma

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Purpose
For filing of disclosures
Land bank web portal
E-enabled Track Management
System (TMS) and Mobile
Application of TMS
72 audio messages about
pregnancy, child birth and child
care
Free audio training course designed
to expand knowledge base
of Accredited Social Health
Activists (ASHAs)

Purpose
Display videos featuring schemes
launched by PM
To provides commutable cloud
CRM solutions.
In 12 International Languages

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RailYatri.in
DIAL Cargo
Non-Tax Receipt Portal

envis portal

Tatkal

SwachhParayatan app

Restaurant cash-back app

e-services

Visa Debit Card & NRI Services

Japan Desk

Portal or App Name

http://www.ncst.gov.in

IRCTC
Delhi International Airport
Ltd
ArunJaitley

Medical emergency app

To track movement of shipments
on real time basis.
For making online payment of
Non-Tax Receipts to the
Government of India.
Javadekar
Initiative for integrating countrywide efforts in environment related information collection,
collation, storage, and
dissemination.
Amazon
To enables small and medium
businesses (SMBs) to go online and
sell products
Delhi eGovernance
To enable general public to
Society (DeGS) and National communicate their complaints
about any unclean area piles
Informatics
Centre(NIC).
Zaggle
To benefits the customers through
Cash back on every bill they pay at
food outlets
LIC
To enable policy holders to have
easy access to their policies, policy
status, and claim information.
Bandhan Bank
debit card service will be available
worldwide but bank would offer
NRI services only at select
branches.
SBI
First-of-its-kind initiative to
facilitate Japanese corporates
looking to invest with banking and
advisory services.

March
Launched by

Purpose

Of e-Newsletter of Textiles Ministry

Union Tribal Affairs

Minister JualOram
SantoshkumarGagwar

Five Healthcare ATMs

Health Ministry

Clean my coach app

Indian Railways

Android N
KendriyaSainik Board portal

Google
Defence ministry

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Tool of source for students, media

and Tribal people
To share our focus on making
development inclusive and
participative and on a regular basis
Madhya Pradesh, Himachal
Pradesh, Odisha and Andhra
Pradesh
For all long-distance trains in
which you can ask for your coach
or toilet to be cleaned by putting a
request on the app
Operating System
To enables the ex-serviceman to
avail various schemes
by submitting online applications

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Union Minister of State (IC)
for Power, Coal New and
Renewable Energy
India Meteorology
Department provide

For distribution of coal by State

Distribution agencies

Depot Online System for Food

Corporation of India (FCI)

Ram Vilas Paswan

Income Tax Business ApplicationPermanent Account Number (ITBAPAN)

Baxi app

Income Tax department

To carry transparency and

minimize storage losses of food
grains
To check the duplication of PAN
cards

KisanSuvidha mobile app

PM NarendraModi

112

GOI

Uber MOTO

Uber

e-CGHS cards

JP Nadda

HMIS application

JP Nadda

M-Wallet

Telangana State Transport

Authority

web portal
Drishti

Portal or App Name

National Agriculture Aprket portal
Aadhaar, net banking-based I-T efiling
VisaforSure

Taxi booking app

April
Launched by

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Users to book rides on the app

without using Internet
Gurgaon and Faridabad
To providing information on
subjects such as weather, market
prices, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides
and agriculture machinery
To adopt 112 as the national
emergency number against at
present, a person dials 100, 101,
102 and 108
Pilot bike sharing service
Users can request for a ride through
the Uber app
To provide comprehensive data on
a GIS platform on 1.6
lakhGovernment Health facilities
spread across the country
To provide ease and access to all
those beneficiaries such as the
pensioners, in cases of renewal, and
in the event of loss/misplacement
of the card.
To provide registration facility for
motorists who obtained driving
licenses in AP or states other than
Telangana.

Purpose

PM NarendraModi in New
Delhi
Income Tax department

Noble Travels

To provide real time visibility

information to pilots.

21 mandis from 8 States to connect emandis in several states

To file the first appeal before a tax
officer, on similar lines of online ITR
filing.
To offer information and facilitation
services to customers who are

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Stand up India Web portal & app

PM NarendraModi in
Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Startup India Portal and Mobile App

Ramesh Abhishek
In New Delhi

International Standard Book Number

(ISBN) Portal

SmritiZubinIrani in New
Delhi

DEEP (Discovery of Efficient

Electricity Price)portal
NOC Online Application and
Processing System (NOAPS) portal
State Bank of India NO Queue - App

Mr.PiyushGoyal

CASHe App

Tslc Pte Ltd

BBM Money App

BlackBerry

Vidyut PRAVAH App

PiyushGoyal

PoochhO Carpool app

Delhi government

Itihassa app

Infosys

App-Based Premium Bus Service

Delhi Government

e-voter

Election Commission,Kerala

Master-Wallets

ePaisa

AdiPraman app

Maharashtra
Governor VidyasagarRao

Dr. Mahesh Sharma

SBI

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applying for visas, be it for tourist or

business
To promoting entrepreneurship
among Scheduled Castes/Scheduled
Tribes and women by giving loans in
the range of Rs 10 lakh to Rs 1 crore
for setting up a new enterprise.
To boost digital entrepreneurship at
the grassroots level has received huge
response from budding entrepreneurs.
To simplify the process and shorten
the time period for procuring ISBN,
which normally takes a few months.
To ensure the continuous flow of
power from seller to the buyer.
To facilitate single window clearance
Virtual queuing application for
customers to book an instant queue
ticket for select services at select
branches
To provides users a personalized
experience to borrow cash anytime,
anywhere within minutes for their
needs
To integrates directly with a
customers BlackBerry Messenger
(BBM) account and permits users to
pay for goods using the
BBM platform.
To Empower Common People to
Demand 247 Power from The
States
To help people during odd-even
scheme
To chronicles the fascinating
journey of the Indian IT Industry.
To encourage private car owners to
switch to public transport.
For search in electoral roll, location of
polling station, information regarding
candidates, affidavit filed by them,
filing of complaint and many other
features.
To enable merchants to accept
payments from any digital wallet
without having to go through the
hassle of opening an account with
each and every wallet company.
To enable the tribal populace of the
state get the caste validity certificates
online.

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Indian Customs- Guide to Travellers

Central Board of Excise and

Customs

To inform international travellers who

may, inter-alia, be
traders/exporters/importers about
Customs Baggage rules.

May
Portal or App Name

Launched by

Purpose

DVAT M SEWA app

Delhi Gov

To boost the VAT tax collection

BHUVAN app

Indian Postal Department

Monitor app

President of India

Bharatavani Multi-lingual App & Web

HRD Minister
SmritiZubinIani

Common Application Software and

ICT enabled Real Time Monitoring
System of ICDS
Persian service of All India Radio
portal and app
Project Management and Information
System (PMIS) app
Based Application on Integrated Waste
Management System
Electronic Maintenance Management
System (e-MMS)
ePACE(E Projects Appraisal &
Continuing Enhancements)
INFRACON portal

WCD Minister SmtManeka

Sanjay Gandhi

To enhanced their services to Hi-tech

by geo-tagging the post offices and to
monitor the timely clearance of the
letter boxes
For transformation of Presidents
Estate into a smart township
To faster national integration by
highlighting on multilingual and
cross-lingual learning tools and
technologies
To monitoring the service delivery of
AnganwadiCentres

www.inampro.nic.in

NitinGadkari

Spaces Group sharing app

Google

PM Modi(Iran visit)
Railways Minister Suresh
Prabhu
Environment Minister
PrakashJavadekar
Indian Air Force (IAF)
NitinGadkari
NitinGadkari

Listeners from Iran can directly

interact
For proper monitoring of all the
Railway projects across the country
To track the movement of hazardous
waste
To ease the system by keeping paper
works and heavy logbooks away.
Online Integrated Management
Information System
For Infrastructure Consultancy Firms
and Key Personnel
For Infrastructure and Material
Providers
To share content and commentary,
group-messaging style, on any topics
they wish.

June
Portal or App Name

Launched by

Purpose

RajVayu app

Rajasthan CM Vasundhara
Raje

Drishti app

Rajasthan CM Vasundhara
Raje
Power, Coal and New &
Renewable Energy Minister
Piyush Goyal

For sharing information about air

quality index of Jaipur, Jodhpur and
Udaipur.
For monitoring of pollution levels in
industrial regions
To handle thousands of calls
simultaneously and can efficiently
monitor all visits of it.

SURYAMITRA app

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Digital Gujarat

Gujarat Gov

HelpAge SOS App

Puducherry Governor Kiran

Bedi
Power Minister Piyush
Goyal
TRAI

URJA- Urban Jyoti Abhiyaan Mobile

app
DND Services app

Crop Manager for Rice-based Systems

(CMRS) App

Agriculture and Farmers

Welfare Minister Radha
Mohan Singh

To put most of the services on

the fingertips of citizens.
To provide one-click emergency
services to senior citizens
To enhance consumer connect with
the Urban Power Distribution sector
To help mobile users to manage
unsolicited commercial
communications to curb the pesky call
menace.
For better crop and Nutrient
management for Bihar farmers

July
Portal or App Name

Launched by

Purpose

NIVARAN Portal

Railway Minister Suresh

Prabhu

MySpeed

TRAI

e-mitra kiosks

Rajasthan

Experience Bengal (Theme) app

West Bengal Tourism

Department
Union Agriculture
Minister Radha Mohan
Singh
Maharashtra CM
Devendra Fadnavis
Union Minister of
Electronics and Information
Technology and Law &
Justice Shankar Prasad
Union Commerce Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman

For redressal of matters related to

grievances of currently serving and
former railway employees
measures the download and upload
speed of your internet connection, for
both Wi-Fi and Cellular connectivity
To allows villagers to access
government services such as licenses
and passport services.
To attract the travelers across the
world
Designed to monitor nearly
645 Krishi Vigyan Kendras
(KVKs) across the country.
To Strengthen Public Security System

Krishi Vigyan Kendra portal

Pratisaad Ask,Police
Mitra,Vahanchoritakrar
Transforming India website

e-marketplace

SVEEP Portal in Hindi language

Election Commission of
India

SBI Mingle

SBI

Elite - Card

SBI

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To enable citizens to view the content

in the form of Infographics, e-books
etc.,
For online purchase of goods and
services by various central
government ministries and
departments
For easy accessibility of various
initiatives of the Commission like
NVSP, Online Voter Competition,
information on events, best practices,
creative content and other resource
material.
To help the customers with a host of
banking services on their social media
accounts, at their own convenience
To enables the customers a
contactless payment experience,
adding more speed and suave to their

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wallets
Blockchain-based system for banks

Paul Taylor

Speech recognition software

August
Portal or App Name

Launched by

Purpose

First comprehensive Crime Criminal

Tracking Network System (CCTNS)

Maharashtra

Akashvani Maitree

Pranab Mukherjee

POCSO e-Box

krishnaPushkaralu.ap.gov.in

Union Minister for Women

and Child Development
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
AP government

To combat the growing cyber-crimes

in the state with the modern
technology
Bengal dedicated Channel at a
function organised at Raj Bhawan in
Kolkata to strengthen ties between
India and Bangladesh.
For reporting child sexual abuse

sachet.rbi.org.in

RBI

MSME Data Bank Portal and Online

Finance Facilitation Web Portal

Finance Minister Arun

Jaitley

Co-branded debit cards

HDFC

S&P BSE Liquid Rate Index

Asia Index

iMobile SmartKeys

ICICI Bank

KBL-SMATRz

Karnataka Bank

Yes Pay

Yes Bank

empower

Canara Bank

Mahindra and Mahindra Limited

DiGiSENSE

web portal of Home dept Odisha

Naveen Patnaik

Twitter Sewa
App HIM TCP

Union Communication
Minster
Himachal TCP dept

PMO app

PM Narendra Modi

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GPS-based mobile application has

also been launched for people to
obtain information on ghats, the rush,
bus services
To curb illegal money pooling by
firms
To facilitate ease of doing business

Daily shopping limit of Rs 2.75

lakh and an ATM withdrawal limit of
Rs 1 lakh.
To measure the performance of
Collateralized Borrowing and
Lending Obligation (CBLO) rate
To make mobile payments easier
To perform the transactions on-the-go
through this app
It does not require that both the
transacting parties be registered on it.
Unified Payment Interface [UPI] App
Integrated technology platform that
connects cars, trucks, tractors and
construction equipments for cloud
computing
Designed by the National Informatics
Centre (NIC) featured with
accessibility guidelines
To address the Comman Man
complaints and needs
To take vital services like online
registration and building plan
permission approvals.
The app would correspond to

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e-marketplace

Commerce Minister Nirmala

Sitharaman

I Feel Safe

Union Minister of Science

and Technology and
Ministry of Earth
Sciences, Harsh Vardhan
Millionlights in partnership
with DEN Manoranjan
Satellite
Union Power Minister
Piyush Goyal

Channel on skill development

Tarang mobile App, e-Trans and

DEEP (Discovery of Efficient
Electricity Price)
Encyclopedia of village-level folklore

Indian Council of Historical

Research (ICHR)

web portal for online filing of

evaluation template for star rating of
mines
App integrating various media handles

Union Power Minister

Piyush Goyal

Sugamya Pustakalaya

Minister for Law & Justice

and Electronics &
Information Technology
Ravi Shankar Prasad
China

Yongzin

External Affairs Ministry

joins hand with Facebook

Kisan Suvidha for Farmers

Punjab CM Parkash Singh

Badal

http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.inis

colours of glory.org

Union Minister of State for

Minority Affairs
(Independent Charge) &
Parliamentary Affairs Shri
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Indian Military

Hello

Orkut

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the website of the Prime Ministers

Office (PMO).
For online purchase of goods and
services by various central
government ministries and
departments
To help women ensure their safety in
the national capital

To focused on higher education and

skill development in Pune.
For e-auction of power transmission
projects
To add document stories and legends
relating to villages and towns across
India into an encyclopedia.
To prompt miners to quickly adopt
sustainable practices for a higher
rating.
One stop shop to find social media
handles twitter, youtube and websites
of all Indian missions abroad.
An online library for persons with
visual disabilities

First Tibetan-language search engine

To provide basic information on
weather updates, crop prices and
expert advice.
Hindi website and updated and
revamped English website of the
Minority Affairs Ministry

Indias first military heritage website

To help you connect with people who
share your passions.

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