AAROGYA SETU APP

2 October,2020


Introduction

Think how ridiculous it is when a government makes it mandatory to keep a mobile application installed in your phone where the country has only 60 percent of the mobile phone uses. A statistical data shows India has approximately 483 million mobile internet users out of 1.35 billion population. The Ministry of Human resource and Development vide a notification on 3rd April, 2020 informed the students, teachers and the citizens to download a mobile phone application called ‘Aarogya setu app’. It was informed that the application would be useful in fighting the COVID-19. Later, on 1st May the Ministry made Aarogya Setu mandatory for the local authority to ensure the 100 percent coverage of the application in the containment zones. The level of absurdity crossed when the Uttar Pradesh Government in Noida made non-installation of the mobile application a punishable offence. Due to arising privacy issues, such orders is nothing but just arbitrary and unreasonable. 

Salient features of the app

  • The Aarogya app is equipped with the techniques of tracing with the help of cell phone bluetooth and GPS.
  • The application warns the application user if they have ever been in contact with the COVID-19 patient or containment areas nearby according to the patients statistical data maintained by the Government.
  • In case, if the application finds the user to have been in touch with any COVID-19 patient or visited nearby containment areas it shares the user’s data with the Government.
  • This application also provides a self assessment to their user. The user can know the infection risk.
  • The application also monitors the health of the user from time to time.
  • The application also provides data of the COVID-19 patients across India in state wise mode.
  • The application also contains awareness videos as well as quarantine measures for the persons having high risks of the COVID-19. 
  • The pass accessing feature is also available on the app. Despite it, the government helpline number is also provided for any kind of help or query.

How does the app work

The application is based on the Bluetooth and Geopositioning contact tracing. One has only to ensure that the bluetooth and the location sharing of the cell phone is turned on always. The application contains the QR code which provides the health states of the user. At first the user needs to install the application “Aarogya setu”. The application is available on the Google play store for Android platform users and on App-store for the IOS platform users. After installation the user has to make registration by entering mobile number. 

The registration shall proceed by inserting the One time Password in the application. The registration is completed by filling some questionnaire which includes personal details followed by the foreign travel history details. At last the user has to take his self assessment test by answering health related questions followed by his desire of volunteering. On the basis of answers the application shows the level of risk of the user. The application detects the nearest mobile phone which has the application installed and calculates the risk on the basis of AI algorithms if the nearest user has been tested positive. 


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