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AFAIK, they have been up for quite some time now.
Selling to companies is highly driven by relationship, and then cost. The company who was named as the topmost technology innovative company (http://www.nasscom.in/innovation-awards2013) is yet to find some solid traction.
And helping government? There will be no takers, since they want you to make solution as costly as possible (and thus more money can be allocated and spent, you know why).
So that leaves consumer-centric approach: "Help people help each other." Particularly because today everyone can afford a smart phone. But how much change people-only focus will bring about, we need to explore and debate.
We should very much welcome the efforts such as this one; but I hope we all appreciate and understand the underlying constraints.
Though I couldn't found it, I am sure it is non profit (it has to be), also are they giving some "no strings attached" money to the people ? and as @linvin said below, in India the problem is not creation but adoption. You just can't create apps/sites and expect people to start using it. It takes lot of time, marketing, effort, resources, people and money to make it happen.