'eSagu' is a web-based personalized agro-advisory system which uses Information Technology to solve the unscientific agricultural practices. Sagu means cultivation in Telugu-local language of Telangana [1] Andhra Pradesh, the region in which the project started. E-Sagu means electronic cultivation. It exploits the advances in Information Technology to build a cost-effective agricultural information dissemination system to disseminate expert agriculture knowledge to the farming community to improve the crop productivity.
It is a joint research project of Media lab asia and IIIT Hyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh. Occupying 650 square kilometres (250 sq mi) along the banks of the Musi River, located on the Deccan Plateau in the northern part of South India. At an average altitude of 542 metres (1,778 ft), much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around artificial lakes, including Hussain Sagar lake —predating the city's founding—north of the city centre. Hyderabad City has a population of about 6.9 million, with about 9.7 million in Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, making it the fourth-most populous city and sixth-most populous urban agglomeration in India. With an output of US$74 billion, Hyderabad is the fifth-largest contributor to India's overall gross domestic product.
Osmania University is a public state university located in University town, Hyderabad, India, and founded in 1918. It was established by and named after Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad. It is the third oldest university in southern India, and the first to be established in the erstwhile Kingdom of Hyderabad. It is the first Indian university to have Urdu as a medium of instruction. As of 2012, the university hosts 3,700 international students from more than 80 nations.
Telangana is a state in India situated on the centre-south stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of 112,077 km2 (43,273 sq mi) and 35,193,978 residents as per 2011 census. On 2 June 2014, the area was separated from the northwestern part of Andhra Pradesh as the newly formed 29th state with Hyderabad as its historic permanent capital. Its other major cities include Warangal, Nizamabad, Khammam and Karimnagar. Telangana is bordered by the states of Maharashtra to the north, Chhattisgarh to the east, Karnataka to the west, and Andhra Pradesh to the east and south. The terrain of Telangana region consists mostly of hills, mountain ranges, and thick dense forests covering an area of 27,292 km2. As of 2019, the state of Telangana is divided into 33 districts.
Genome Valley is an Indian high-technology business district spread across 600 km² in Hyderabad, India. It is located across the suburbs, Turkapally, Shamirpet, Medchal, Uppal, Patancheru, Jeedimetla, Gachibowli and Keesara, the Valley has developed as a cluster for Biomedical research, training and manufacturing.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Autonomous Scientific Society of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), of the Government of India. The National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), ER&DCI and CEDTI were merged into C-DAC in 2003. Since then C-DAC has been forging ahead with the vision to emerge as a premier R&D organisation for the design, development and deployment of world-class electronics and IT solutions for economic and human advancement.
Information Kerala Mission (IKM),Is an Autonomous Institution under Local self government Department, Government of Kerala, for computerisation and networking of local governments in Kerala (India) and has been in existence for a decade since August 1999.
The IT@School Project, is an information technology project under the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala in India. Launched in 2001, the Project has remodeled conventional teaching methodologies in classrooms through the use of IT. The project is being implemented in over 12,000 schools in the state of Kerala, and also in schools in Mahé, Lakshadweep and the Middle East which follow the state syllabus. An estimated 5 million students and 200,000 teachers are now part of this project, which has a network of 160 "master trainers" and 5600 school IT co-ordinators statewide, who are school teachers themselves. The project also conducts specialized training for visually challenged teachers in that state. The project functions on a free software platform. It@school is now transformed into KITE, Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education, a Special Purpose Vehicle Company under Department of Education.
HALRIS is a Visual Basic/Microsoft SQL Server based software system used by the Haryana government for the computerisation of land records in its tehsils. It was developed by National Informatics Centre - Haryana State unit. The project was inaugurated on 1 November 2003 by Hon’ble Chief Minister Ch. Om Prakash Chautala in Sirsa District on the occasion of Haryana Day. HALRIS has been implemented in all Tehsils and subtehsils of Haryana.
India.gov.in is the Indian government’s web portal for citizens. It presents information resources and online services from government sources, accessible from a single point. It is also known as the National Portal of India.
Chintalapati Srinivasa Raju, Popularly known as Srini Raju, is an Indian Entrepreneur, and Private Equity Investor. Srini Raju was the Founding CEO & MD of Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software, the in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet, established in 1994, which focused on implementing large-scale IT projects for Dun & Bradstreet businesses. DBSS was later renamed as Cognizant.
National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, known as MANAGE, formerly National Centre for Management of Agricultural Extension at Hyderabad, is an autonomous agricultural education institute located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The aim of the institute is to instill managerial and technical skills to Extension Officers, Managers, Scientists and Administrators in the agricultural economy, to enable them to provide support and services to farmers and fishermen for practicing sustainable agriculture.
Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology (GCTC) is an Indian Technical Institute located in Hyderabad, Telangana. It is an autonomous institution accredited by NBA National Board of Accreditation.
C-DAC Hyderabad is the Hyderabad, India branch of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). It is a knowledge centre with the components of knowledge creation, knowledge dissemination, knowledge application to grow in the areas of research & development, training and business respectively. The R&D areas of the centre are e-security, embedded systems, ubiquitous computing, e-learning, ESDM, and ICT for development.
Telangana has multiple institutes of higher education universities along with numerous primary and secondary schools.
The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) is an autonomous organization engaged in agricultural research related to spices in India. The institute has its headquarters in Moozhikkal, Silver Hills, Kozhikode, Kerala and is a subsidiary of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, under the Ministry of Agriculture, India.
The economy of Telangana is mainly supported by agriculture. Two important rivers of India, the Godavari and Krishna, flow through the state, providing irrigation. Farmers in Telangana mainly depend on rain-fed water sources for irrigation. Rice is the major food crop. Other important local crops are cotton, sugar cane, mango and tobacco. Recently, crops used for vegetable oil production, such as sunflower and peanuts, have gained favour.There are many multi-state irrigation projects in development, including Godavari River Basin Irrigation Projects.
Vivekananda Degree College, Kukatpally is an education institution in Kukatpally, Hyderabad, Telangana, India named after Swami Vivekananda.
Systel, Inc. is a U.S.-based multinational provider of integrated technology and business services, most utilizing temporary H-1B visa workers. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Systel development centers are located in India and the United States. Systel is a certified Minority business enterprise (MBE).
Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao popularly known as K.T.R., is an Indian politician and working president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Telangana Secretariat situated at Hyderabad, is the administrative office of the employees of the Government of Telangana in India.