The company provides free toolkits, BB 10 devices and developer support to those students developing apps. Almost a tenth of the 4, 00,000 developers working on the Blackberry platform are now from India.

"The reason RIM lost the race to Apple and Samsung was because it had no exciting hardware or platform for developers," said Kunal Bajaj, director at mobile venture One97 Communications and a BlackBerry user. "With BB 10, RIM aims to get some of that buzz back."

In addition, RIM will pay developers $10000 ( 5.4 lakh) for every app successfully ported on the BB 10 platform. With its new BB 10 devices to be unveiled this week, the company expects to have 70,000 apps globally.

Arjun, R Pillai, 24, who quit Infosys teamed up with his college mates and launched Profoundis, which led to the developing of 12 apps for the Blackberry platform. Apps like ‘Sense’ and ‘Emotion’ among those 12 are used to search algorithms to analyze the mood of a blog or predict whether a movie can be a hit or a flop.  Arjun’s other apps ‘Yoga’ and ‘Cook Book’ are also being ported to the new platform.

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