Each, make 40 people download Aarogya Setu App: Nadda to BJYM

New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) BJP President JP Nadda on Thursday appealed to his Yuva Morcha colleagues to ensure that each of them makes 40 individuals download the Aarogya Setu App that the government has come up with for all information on Covid-19 and alerts.

The App which was launched on April 2 is meant to alert users if they have come in contact with a Covid-19 positive patient. In fact, the App has reached 50 million users in just 13 days – the fastest ever globally in comparison to other Apps.

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had urged the citizens to download the Aarogya Setu application. The tracking App is an essential tool in the Covid-19 fight, insisted Modi. It was developed by the National Informatics Centre.

Nadda told this to members of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) during a video conference. While the meeting was mostly attended by the next gen of the BJP which included Poonam Mahajan, Rohit Chahal, Amit Malviya, it was also attended by a few senior leaders of the party. General Secretary (Organization) BL Santosh and Muralidhar Rao were also present.

During the conference, Nadda also stressed on the importance of feeding the poor while highlighting that the party is already feeding 5 crore people each day during the lockdown period.

India recently extended its shutdown till May 3, after Covid-19 cases continued to rise. The first leg of the shutdown ended on April 14.

–IANS

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