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Waiving off farm loans, free laptops among BJP’s poll promises
Lucknow: Batting for all-round development of Uttar Pradesh and wooing voters, the BJP on Saturday released its manifesto promising to waive off loans of marginal farmers, provide interest free loans to them and distribute laptops to the youth.Releasing the manifesto here, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah said that Uttar Pradesh had been “left behind” in the race for development.”For the last 15 years Uttar pradesh has been ruled by either Samajwadi Party or Bahujan Samaj Party during which all the development works were stalled in the state; so we are going to bring in the era of performing politics,” Shah said.
“If voted to power, we will make Uttar Pradesh a developed state in five years,” he promised.”I appeal to the people to give us one opportunity, and we promise to turn UP into a developed state.”Promising to waive off loans of small and marginal farmers, he said: “While the new loans to the small and marginal farmers would be given at zero per cent interest, the sugarcane farmers would get the payment of their crops within 14 days from sugar mills.””Debt of Rs 6,000 crore of the sugarcane farmers will be cleared within 120 days if the BJP is voted to power,” he said.
He also said his party would make arrangements to buy the yields of crops from farmers at the minimum support price.For the drought-hit Bundelkhand region, Shah said, “The new BJP-led government would set up a Chief Minister Agriculture Irrigation Scheme with a budget of Rs 20,000 crore to make water available in every field of Bundelkhand.”Noting that the number of cattle were on the decline in the state, Shah said, “We will shut all the illegal slaughter houses in the state and ban all the automatic slaughter houses too.”To bring ‘White Revolution’ in the state, the BJP will start a Dairy Development Fund with Rs 15 crore, he said.
“For the state’s milk collection with the help of the National Dairy Development Board a dairy processing unit would be formed for every four districts,” Shah said.The party also promised to create a fund of Rs 150 crore for agricultural development in the next five years.Targetting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over his laptop distribution scheme, Shah said, “We won’t discriminate with any student of any caste or religion to distribute the laptops.”We will distribute laptops to youth with 1 GB free internet for an year,” Shah said.
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Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
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“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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