The AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge all started with a tweet by our Honorable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. A portion of that tweet, published on the 4th of July, read, "Today there is immense enthusiasm among the tech & start-up community to create world-class Made in India Apps."

A little over a month later, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (@GoI_MeitY) has evaluated over 6,000 apps under nine broad categories, including entertainment, news, office productivity, E-learning, and business. The objective? To identify the best Indian apps that are already in use by Indian businesses and citizens, and that have the potential to scale up and become world-class in their respective categories.

After a lot of back-and-forths, three grueling rounds of evaluation, and countless hours of preparation, five apps from Zoho stand tall as winners in the Office and Business categories: Zoho Cliq, Zoho Workplace, Zoho Invoice, Zoho Expense, and Zoho Books.