The ban on 224 Chinese-owned apps was brought up in at least five different questions in Lok Sabha today a number of different ways. In at least three written answers, IT Minister of State Sanjay Dhotre, refused to name any country "in public domain" citing national security concerns when asked if all the apps where made Chinese companies. Here's what Dhotre revealed about the situation: No proposal to ban all China-linked apps: In one response, Dhotre revealed that there is no proposal with the IT Ministry to ban all apps that are linked to China. The Ministry also does not have any information about the number of jobs lost or the financial cost of banning these 224 apps. Congress MP Anto Antony (Pathanamthitta, Kerala) had asked the question. No reports on whether the blocked apps are still available: In response to a set of questions by six MPs, Dhotre said that nobody had reported the availability of any of the blocked 224 apps to the IT Ministry. However, he also wrote that blocking access to apps “is a dynamic process”. BJP MPs Sukanta Majumdar (Balurghat, West Bengal), Vinod Kumar Sonkar (Kaushambi, Uttar Pradesh), Bhola Singh (Begusarai, Bihar), Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo (Bolangir, Odisha), Raja Amareshwara Naik (Raichur, Karnataka), and Jayanta Kumar Roy (Jalpaiguri, West Bengal) had asked the question. No proposal to exclude Chinese companies from 5G contracts: In the answer to the six BJP MPs, Dhotre revealed that the government is currently not considering any proposal to exclude Chinese…
