India celebrates National Technology Day every year on 11 May to commemorate the historic nuclear test carried out by India at Pokhran in 1998. In over two decades that have passed since, India has developed several new technologies, some of which have seamlessly integrated into our daily lives in the form of mobile applications. Here’s a list of five such applications which have facilitated day-to-day life, education and business for rural citizens through a range of modern technologies.
Released in 2019, Read Along is an Android application that helps young readers learn languages and speak them fluently. It has an easy-to-use user interface, featuring several stories and a character called Diya who helps the user to read through. The app employs text-to-speech technology and voice recognition to improve reading efficiency in children by providing feedback as they read along. According to reports by Google, several children from small towns and rural areas have benefitted by using the app which also helps to learn Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Urdu among others.
With 4.8/5 reviews on the Google Play Store, Bharat Krushi Seva is a smart farming application developed by Pune-based IT professionals Sharayu Lande and Hemant Dhole Patil and their team. It integrates IOT into agriculture to offer solutions to several problems faced by farmers like unpredictable climate and low productivity. The application employs data analytics and remote sensing technology to provide a range of services like personalised crop consultancy, weather monitoring and alerting system, soil testing and more. The application has positively impacted several Maharashtra-based farmers.
