Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu has recently praised yet another Indian innovation, this time not from his own company but a homegrown navigation app called Mappls. Developed by Indian digital mapping firm MapmyIndia, Mappls has caught attention after Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw encouraged citizens to try the “Swadeshi ‘Mappls’” app.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Vembu described the app as “very nice” and highlighted that it reflects “decades of R&D, much longer than Google Maps.” This endorsement came in response to Vaishnaw’s post, in which the minister wrote, “Swadeshi ‘Mappls’ by MapmyIndia Good features must try!” Vaishnaw also shared a video demonstrating the app’s functionalities, referring to Mappls as a credible Indian alternative to foreign mapping services.

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