In this fastest growing pace of India’s IT sector, the most important and strong decision is undertaken by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to ban some popular Chinese Apps mainly Tik Tok of ByteDance which counts India’s biggest overseas market. The ministry has passed this order to ban the apps on Monday Evening to Google and Apple and eventually both of them worked upon this context. This step has impacted worse for Tik Tok’s parent company ByteDance which is currently the most valued and trending startup for having its largest and favourable market in India.

However, it is believed that from the past few years Tik Tok is emerging with the most of user’s that is almost the highest in numbers as compared to other apps. It has been recorded that over 500 million monthly active users in the country are available on this app and for some, it is like a source of livelihood as well. At some point of time, Tik Tok was a great platform for Social Media Marketing in India that can be used in many different ways like publishing some fitness related tips, food recipes, displaying dancing talent, acting, and more like such things. Overall it’s a video making, publishing, and popularizing app used by every age group in India. Besides some useful content published in Tik Tok, there are many unethical practices done by the users just to gain popularity and upon which a video got viral on social media of CarryMinati (Ajey Nagar) which has expressed some of the unwanted activities of Tik Tok users.

Moreover, apart from Tik Tok there are 58 other apps having their origin in China that are banned by Indian Government. This is actually the first time in the history of India, that the government has taken such a drastic step and it is really a good sign for turning to a new and independent India.

Out of all 59 apps, the most widely used apps are –

• Tik-Tok & HELO “Video apps”– The two most popular social media apps of the past few years in India, Tik Tok has its parent company ByteDance Technology PVT LTD in China. This has a command of more than 170 million active users all across the country. Notably, India has the largest market for Tik Tok with more than 611 million downloads of videos, which is representing the third of video based platforms followed by China.  The IT Ministry of India was specifically inspecting to seek the entire details of the companies running these apps on which the process of data sharing by these companies under a Chinese Law was also found by the intelligence agencies.
• UC Browser & UC NEWS “News, cricket, latest updates” – Both of these Alibaba Group Platforms are run by an entity called UCWEB Mobile PVT LTD, which has recorded more than 130 million active users monthly. UC Browser, is the second most used mobile Internet browser in India after Google Chrome, with a market share of almost 22% as compared to chrome’s 70%.
• ShareIT “File Sharing app” – One of the most famous, file-sharing apps with more than 400 million active users in the country. The app is entirely marketed in the world through mouth-publicity which has more than 1.8 billion users worldwide. The Indian market has contributed to almost 15-20 % of revenue to the company’s global revenue generated in the IT field which shows that it was growing its fame in India.
• Shein “E-commerce Portal” – Shien is an e-commerce portal which is mainly focused on fashion and lifestyle products. In India, its operations were being run by XIYIN India PVT LTD based in Gurgaon. The company has crossed over more than 1 million active users in India and it has been emerging its market from all over India.
• Club Factory “Online Shopping Platform” – The most famous online marketplace, which claims to hit India’s third largest e-commerce company, has managed to onboard 30000 sellers on its platform. The company’s Indian entity GlobeMax Commerce India PVT LTD is mainly owned by a Hong-Kong based company named Unbeaten Price LTD.

Along with these, some other Chinese apps that are banned in India are -

The most popular gaming app, Pubg (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) is also on its edge of getting banned in India, but the orders are not released till yet. Almost every youngster nowadays has emerged in the Pubg game which makes it the most famous app among the group. This important step of ministry of IT is believed to be taken for over the concern that these apps were engaging in some threatening activities “National Security and Defense of India was mainly impinges on the integrity and sovereignty of India” for which is the latest faceoff between the two most populated nations.

This has resulted in a new look of Self-reliant India, which is a good initiative of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi saying “Atma Nirbhar Bharat”. People are now getting engaged in all of the activities that benefit the country in its own way. Almost everyone is now working on a theme for Vocal for Local which means the products will be manufactured, produced, and processed, in India itself that helps in increasing the GDP and Per Capita income of the country while boosting its economy. As China has recently been involved in some unethical activities at the border of India, the country has decided to fight back in a way of unity by “Boycott China” and their products.

Let us all together become a union and undertake the pledge of “Self-Reliant India” while supporting the decisions laid by Indian Government for the well-being of this country.