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Survey Shows Telangana Govt’s Innovation, Guts & Energy

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- Vishweshwer Mangalapalli Much has been said and alleged about the intentions of the Comprehensive People Survey of Telangana. Thanks to the steadfastness of the Govt, we are moving ahead with it. If done with a reasonable amount of sincerity, the survey would lead to collection of data which would be a treasure trove. However, what will really determine the efficacy of this survey is what the Govt does with the data it collects post the survey. Given this context, I spoke with the Chief Data Scientists in a couple of analytics companies that I know of and both were unanimous that the data can be mined to give comprehensive insights which could form inputs into multiple areas In the recent ...

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CM KCR & Family Attend Survey & Fill Out Forms

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Taking the lead in the Telangana survey, CM KCR and his family participated in the Intensive Household Survey in Hyderabad and gave out all required information in the 3 page survey form bought by enumerators. His son KTR and grandchildren were present during the survey. Interestingly, only a day before, TDP MLA Revanth Reddy challenged the CM to do the same and criticized the CM of arranging the survey with an agenda. While allies TDP and BJP have dubbed the survey with all kinds of labels, the State’s population overwhelmingly participated in the survey with more than 90% of survey reportedly complete by 9 PM. In some areas, survey was happening late into the night. The State Government already announced tomorrow ...

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What Is Need For ‘Namaste Telangana’ To Cover AP Assembly Sessions!? – Kodela

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The AP Assembly Speaker and other officials have refused to issue passes to reporters of Namasthe Telangana and asked them straight if it is needed for them to cover the upcoming AP assembly sessions! As a practice, passes for Assembly sessions are issued as courtesy for even media of other States, apart from national media. So the speaker’s question smacks of an agenda. And importantly, the AP sessions are happening in Telangana capital. So naturally it is NT’s business! There has been lot of hue and cry over media freedom these days, even going to the extent of supporting open abuse by some channels. But as we have seen earlier, there won’t be any noise about this violation. Earlier, T News ...

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CM KCR Flying To Singapore To Speak At IIM Alumni Meet

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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will fly to Singapore tonight at 11:30 PM from Hyderabad.KCR has been invited to speak at IIMPACT 2014, the annual IIM alumni meet, in Singapore. The CM will address the ex-students of the IIM working in different countries. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be the other key speaker at the event, which annually enlists an array of speakers from Singapore and around the world. Singapore government representatives, other global business leaders and experts have been the chief patrons of the event in the past. This the 7th year of the event and the theme for this year is “I’M the Change” and would be held at Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore. CM KCR is invited in recognition of ...

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Hyderabad Wears A Deserted Look, As Survey Brings State To Standstill

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Greater Hyderabad, with more than a million population, wore a deserted look today with normally busy and congested roads getting completely empty. Transport services have been stopped, offices, education institutes closed and cinema theatres, petrol stations shut down — the Telangana government ewent all out to make every one in the new state’s population is counted and their socio-economic status profiled on Tuesday. People have moved in large numbers to their villages to register, while Telangana migrants from out-of-state came home for the same purpose. Though the State Govt stated that people need not be in native places for the survey, people took no chances and deserted the city and went to native places to attend survey there. With nobody and no vehicles ...

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