Sandes is an open source based indigenous instant messaging platform developed by NIC, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India to facilitate instant messaging communication in Government organisations. It is hosted exclusively at Government infrastructure. It supports end to end encrypted messaging and encrypted backup and encrypted OTP service. Its privacy and data policy is governed by rules and regulations of the Government of India. Sandes can be integrated with other Government communications systems for sending encrypted messages without any cost. Currently Sandes is integrated with NIC email, DigiLocker and e-office. At present, full features of Sandes app are available only to the Government verified users. Employees of Government organisation need to contact the Nodal officer of their Ministry/ Department for verification. For information about Nodal officers write to us at support-sandes[at]nic[dot]in
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27 Aug 2025
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what a ridiculous app even otp is not coming and taking too much time, even worst interface and you want people to leave whatsapp and switch to this app at least make this app more standard and convenient and fast then expect from people. otherwise no will use this useless app.
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UJJWAL SHUKLA
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11 September 2025
hey guys maybe whatapp is more famous but let's download and use it for our nation we should not depend on American or chinese apps we can create and use our own maybe the app is slow that whatsapp but your one download will empower our country many times ... many of you won't use it but some megabytes won't ruin your device just download and login in it and nothing else let that download and it would be more better if you use it and many of my contacs do let's empower our nation jai hind
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kabindra barh
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2 September 2025
I installed this app successfully. but you do not have permission to send massage in this chat. this massage is showing in chat box for all my contacts. why?