As part of a program to ensure technological independence and reduce the impact on the infrastructure of technologies developed outside the country, India has developed a new mobile platform BharOS. According to the director of the Institute of Technology of India, BharOS is a redesigned fork of the Android platform, built on the basis of code from the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) repository and freed from bindings to Google services and products.
BharOS is being developed by the Pravartak Technologies Foundation, a non-profit company established at the Institute of Technology of India and funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The default browser is the mobile application from the search engine DuckDuckGo, and the messenger is Signal. The system also redesigned some security mechanisms related to verification and ensuring the verification of the chain of trust (root of trust). In addition to the operating system, it is planned to launch an independent application catalog through which programs for BharOS will be delivered.
Source: opennet.ru