China becomes second largest economy

August 16th, 2010

According to Bloomberg news China overtakes Japan to become world’s second largest economy after United States of America.

Japan’s nominal gross domestic product for the second quarter totaled $1.288 trillion, less than China’s $1.337 trillion, the Japanese Cabinet Office said today. Japan remained bigger in the first half of 2010, the government agency said. Japan’s annual GDP is $5.07 trillion, while China’s is more than $4.9 trillion.

Back to Blogging after a long time

July 27th, 2010

Hi after a long break, nice to be back.

Amarajeevi Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District website

January 5th, 2010

Nellore

This is link to newly created website for Nellore district.

Happy New Year 2010

December 31st, 2009

Wish you all a happy and prosperous new year 2010

Industrial development in Telangana, Rayalaseema, Costal Andhra: Special Economy Zones

December 24th, 2009

[Also read Solution to Telangana problem, Visalandhra needs for new state, Comparision of Human Development index in rural Telangana, Rayalaseema, and Costal Andhra]

Speical Economy Zones in India are created to stimulate industrial, service and manufacturing growth. The concept is based on sucess that china achived by creating speical economy zones where there are tax incentives to stimulate export based industry.There are around 103 special economy zones in Andhra Pradesh. There is quite disparity in special economy zones development in AP. Telangana including Hyderabad had higher share compared to rest of Andhra Pradesh.

Based on Region there are sixty eight (68) special economy zones in Telangana, seven (7) special economy zones in Rayalaseema, and twenty eight (28) special economy zones in Costal Andhra. This number is based on publication at SEZIndia.nic.in accessible via link.

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Solution to Telangana problem

December 24th, 2009

This article is written in response to Telangana crisis in Andhra Pradesh India. [Also read Industrial development in Telangana, Rayalaseema, Costal Andhra: Special economy zones, Visalandhra needs for new state, Comparision of Human Development index in rural Telangana, Rayalaseema, and Costal Andhra]

Solution to Telangana problem requires two pronged approach.

Urban Development: Stop focussed development of a region or few regions. Instead initiative should include broad based development of whole region. Concentration of developing Hyderabad and surrounding areas stopped it should be channelled to developing regional centres like Anantapur, Cuddapah,Tirupathi, Nellore, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Kakinada, Rajamundry, and Warangal. More money and investment need to be pumped to regional centres than Hyderabad and this should be done ASAP even if it means that some of the approved projects cancelled or shifted to other regions.

Rural Development:
Concentrate in improving quality of life, literacy in rural population of whole Andhra Pradesh. This can be done by better infrastructure in terms of schools, irrigation projects, decentralisation of governance, and better roads.

Avatar’s Pandora – dream world or massive nueral network

December 22nd, 2009

James cameron new movie Avatar is great movie will all graphics, intense battles and stories about Na’vi humanoids. I loved 3D graphics and story line with intense emotions that he characterised in his movie. Some questions about movie fascinate me.

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Projecting whole pandora as massive neural network? – In the movie humanoids, animals and trees interact with each other by special tentacles exchanging sensory and motor input in both directions. In simple sense whole world of pandora interact with each other by synapses. It would be facinating to feel how others feel. It would be fascinating to feel bird flying, fish swimming or living thousands of years like trees.

Question about day and night cycle in satellite of a gas giant? Day night cycle in this planet may be completely erratic. On pandora it depends on rotation of planet and also possibly on revolution around gas giant.

Floating mountains? – I loved idea of their existence. Is it possible with lower gravity and high dense atmosphere less dense rock?

USA issues travel alert for people visiting Andhra Pradesh

December 18th, 2009

For a decade Telugu people strived hard to get a reputation for being investment and growth hub. All these washed away with inappropriate actions of political goons like K Chandrasekar Rao and Lagadapati Rajagopal. US warning is only starting, multiple other warnings in form of low ratings for investment will follow if we take destructive path of state division.

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he Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the possibility of violence as Andhra Pradesh continues to experience civil unrest. A demonstration is planned for December 10, and there is the potential that episodic clashes between the police and protesters will spark wider unrest in the city of Hyderabad. The Department recommends that U.S. citizens defer all non-essential travel to the Telangana Region of Andhra Pradesh and certain parts of Hyderabad (especially the Assembly and Secretariat, Osmania University, Panjagutta, and Ameerpet areas). The Telangana Region includes the districts of Rangareddi, Warangal, Medak, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Adilabad, and Khammam. This Travel Alert supplements the Travel Alert for India dated October 29, 2009, and expires on December 31, 2009.

My previous posts regarding Telangana issue
Seperate Telangana State
Visalandhra – needs for new state

e-Anatomy for iPhone based on IMAIOS

December 17th, 2009

I have been informed by Scimob about e-Anatomy application which is based on IMAIOS online anatomy atlas. It is currently available to by via iTunes store. I have got an promo code from developers so I will be able to review it.

e-Anatomy for iPhone and iPod touch is an innovative mobile application. It allows you to discover the human body with many details. This anatomy atlas delivers 4,000+ images (diagrams and medical images) with 6,500+ labeled anatomical structures.
Features:

  • Scroll through images with the flick of a finger
  • Pinch to zoom in and out
  • Tap to display anatomy labels
  • Toggle anatomy labels on and off by category
  • Locate any structure identified in a module using the search indexer
  • Auto-screen rotation

e-Anatomy In App contains 2 anatomy modules:

  • Axial MRI brain anatomy: 144 images, 160 anatomical structures
  • Illustrations of cranial nerve anatomy: 15 images, 280 anatomical structures

22 other anatomy modules are available (in demo mode) and enabled after purchase of In App packages:

  • Head and Neck (6 modules, 1 300 images, 2 300 anatomy labels)
  • Chest, Abdomen and Pelvis (7 modules, 1 025 images, 1 100 anatomy labels)
  • Musculoskeletal (9 modules, 1 800 images, 3 200 anatomy labels)

This application has been developed by Scimob, a mobile software development company, which has already released the Akinator iPhone application.

for more iphone medical apps and anatomy apps for iphone please visit the links.

Comparision of Human Development index in rural Telangana, Rayalaseema, and Costal Andhra

December 16th, 2009

[Also read Industrial development in Telangana, Rayalaseema, Costal Andhra: Special economy zones, Solution to Telangana problem, Visalandhra needs for new state]

I have recently stumbled across a publication by National council of applied economic research (link) by Jatinder S Bedi & H Ramachandran. This is a working paper with title “Human Development Index for Rural Andhra Pradesh” it is a 39 page document and can be downloaded from NCAER website (link). This publication is based on IAMR survey that was undertaken in 2001. This publication will provide in detail analysis of difference of various human development index values in various districts in the state. Full publication can be accessed via above links but I am posting some tables so that you can see how the real growth and development is spread across rural parts of the state.

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Their Conclusion clearly shows improving human development index in rural population of all three regions of Andhra Pradesh. The publication did not show selective lower growth and development in Telangana region. There were districts which are good like Khammam topping among all districts in AP. Of top 5 positions there were 2 Telangana districts, 2 Costal Andhra districts, and one Rayalaseema district. In bottom 5 positions there were 3 Costal Andhra districts and 2 Telangana districts.

This document proves that people are not bothered about real growth and development. Rather people stick on to lies provided by corrupt politicians like KCR. These politicians then ignite hatred among people. Do you guys remember the famous notion “Divide and rule”.

This district-wise analysis reveals that Khammam, Krishna, West Godavari, Chittoor and Medak are the five districts with highest HDI in ascending order in rural AP. There is high correlation among all the indicators. Mahbubnagar, East Godavari, Warangali, Visakhapatanam and Guntur are the districts with lowest HDI. The data show that the poor make up 16.3 per cent of the total population in rural AP and expenditure on consumption is around 13.5 per cent of the total consumption expenditure. The female literacy rate is 0.66 compared to male literacy rate in rural AP. The district-wise variations for poverty ratio are high and low for ratio of female/male literacy rate.

References

WP 99 Human Development Index for Rural Andhra Pradesh
Author(s): Jatinder S Bedi & H Ramachandran
Published in December,2008
http://www.ncaer.org/Publications.aspx?ID=2
http://www.ncaer.org/Downloads/WorkingPapers/WP99.pdf