Who Created Arogya Setu? Ministries Have No clue

In a surprising statement, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has said that it has no information about who created the Aarogya Setu app.

Aarogya Setu is a contact tracing app, that was branded by the central government as a key tool to fight Covid-19 in India.

The NIC is chiefly responsible for designing government websites and even though the Arogya Setu website claims that it was developed by the NIC in association with the information technology ministry, the NIC today denied knowledge about how the app came about in response to a Right to Information query.

Responding to the developments, the Central Information Commission (CIC) on Tuesday asked the NIC to explain then why does the Arogya Setu website claim that it was developed by the NIC. The CIC has also issued a notice to the government for providing “evasive answers”. 

According to guielines issued by the ministry of home affairs, it is mandatory to download the Arogya Setu app before entering restaurants, cinema halls, metro stations, and boarding flights. Millions have downloaded the app, and a lot of security concerns have been raised regarding the app.