India Plans Its Own OS – Reason: Security Concerns

Indian government is planning to develop its own Operating System. It is being termed as a futuristic computer Operating System. This project would be spearheaded by DRDO (Defense Research and Development Organization) in partnership with software companies in and around Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi as also academic institutions like Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and IIT Chennai, among others. DRDO would be putting in place a dedicated team of 50 software professionals in the Bangalore and Delhi software development centers to accomplish the task. DRDO has also put in place a “complete framework” on the proposed commercial arm, which is currently in the process of securing necessary government approvals and is expected to be operational next year.

Objective

India can own the source code and architecture. India won’t have to rely on Western operating systems which it thinks aren’t competent enough to thwart cyber attacks. The OS would be hack-proof and would prevent sensitive data from being stolen. This OS is needed to protect India’s economic framework.

Our Thoughts

We admire India for taking up such an ambitious project and hope that DRDO which has taken up the responsibility to complete this complex task is able to execute this project successfully. Though on a use case front would you use an Indian OS?

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