India, May 27 -- The winner will get Rs.1 crore.

After launching a challenge inviting Indian companies to build a secure alternative to the video conferencing app Zoom, now after a month, the government has announced a list of top 10 companies that have been selected as a part of its Innovation Challenge.

According to a report by The Economic Times, the list of companies that have entered the first round of the challenge include Aria Telecom, CyberHorizon Corp, Data Ingenious, Darsh, HCL Technologies, Instrive Softlabs, Hyderabad-based PeopleLink, PeopleLink Unified Communications and cloud services company Zoho Corp.

These companies will be given a grant of Rs.5 lakh each to develop a prototype of a secure video conferencing solution....