NEW DELHI: As the country works from home due to the coronavirus lockdown, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology on Monday announced an ' innovation challenge ' for development of a video-conferencing solution under the Digital India Initiative The challenge is open for participation to the industry, start-ups and individual experts. The end product will be an Indian software product at par with international apps. It should have a high-quality audio set-up, and should work in low and high network scenarios."The initiative is an attempt to promote Indian software products as envisaged under the National Policy on Software Products ," Meity said.The challenge will be conducted in three rounds. In the first round, ten companies/startups will be selected and will be given Rs 5 lakh each to build prototypes.Of these, three will be selected in the second round to build the complete solution and will be given Rs 20 lakh each. Of the three, the best one will be selected andin order to provide initial market, the winning team with the best-judged solution will get a contract to deploy their solution for use by the central and state government entities for a period of 4 years, apart from gerting Rs 1 Crore in the first year and an additional 10 lakhs per year for 3 years.