Indian Army is mandated to safeguard National Interests from External Aggression and Internal Subversion. With approximately 1.4 million personnel, the Indian Army is the world’s largest ground force.
Indian Army asks it’s personnel to delete 89 apps. From social media accounts to e-commerce and dating sites, platforms include a range of apps.
Few of them are Tiktok, Truecaller, Instagram, Facebook, WeChat, Hike, PUBG, Tinder etc. By July 15. The apps banned by the army are not limited to the 59 Chinese mobile applications banned by the government.
The Chinese apps earlier banned are Club Factory, SHAREit, Likee, Mi Video Call (Xiaomi), Weibo, Baidu and Bigo Live. They have been removed from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for India. China has strongly reacted to India’s move to ban 59 mobile applications last month, most of which are linked to China. The Indian government’s decision was based on security concerns.
The decision comes after an “exponential increase” in the number of cases being targeted by their intelligence agencies.
A tweet from news agency ANI includes a photograph of a page with the list of the apps, and the title, ‘Social Media Apps: Banned for Usage’. It quotes Army sources to say that the ban is to plug leakage of information.
