In a post on X, union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw endorsed the indigenous alternative, calling on citizens to try the “Swadeshi platform.” In a video, Vaishnaw demonstrated the MapMyIndia-developed application’s features during a car journey on Saturday.
On the App Store, Mappls is #2 in the navigation category, just behind Google Maps, while on Google Play Store, it has over one crore downloads. The…

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