‘BharOS’, Made-in-India operating system, tested

The BharOS is an Indian govtfunded project to develop a free and opensource operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems

New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday tested ‘BharOS’, an indigenous operating system developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT).

“Congratulations to everyone involved in developing the system. For the very first time when our Prime Minis- ter Narendra Modiji talked about digital India eight years ago, some of our friends mocked him, but today, technocrats, innovators, industries and policymakers, and aca- demic institutions of the country have accepted his vision after eight years,” he said.

“There will be difficulties in this journey and there are many people around the world who will bring difficulties and will not want any such system to be successful,” Mr Vaishnaw said.

BharOS, a new mobile operating system, focuses on privacy and security. A mobile operating system is a soft- ware that is the core interface on a smartphone like Android by Google and iOS by Apple. The BharOS is an Indian governmentfunded project to develop a free and opensource operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems. The project aims to reduce the dependence on foreign OS in smartphones and promote the use of locally developed technology.