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Nitish launches high-tech ‘Badh Chala Bihar’ ahead of assembly polls

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Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday launched a high-tech ‘Badh Chala Bihar’ (Bihar moving forward) initiative to directly reach out to the masses and seek their ideas and suggestions for the state’s development.

The initiative was launched a day after the Janata Parivar projected him as chief ministerial candidate ahead of the crucial Bihar assembly elections scheduled later this year. It is the brainchild of Prashant Kishore, an erstwhile key strategist of Narendra Modi during the last Lok Sabha polls.

“Our target is to reach out to 40,000 villages across Bihar in the next six to seven weeks for a feedback on the state’s development and involve them by seeking their ideas for its development in the next 10 years,” Nitish Kumar said at the inaugural function.

The chief minister said that a ‘Vision Document 2025’ for Bihar would be prepared on the basis of ideas/suggestions from the public.

Nitish Kumar said he wished to inform the people of Bihar about his government’s development work in the nearly 10 years of his party’s rule in the state.

“My government has delivered development with justice,” he said.

The chief minister said that when he came to power in November 2005, Bihar was a power-starved state.

“A severe power crisis prevailed in Bihar then as people in villages and towns lived in the dark without electricity. But this has now changed. Power situation has improved in the last few years,” Nitish Kumar said, while admitting that ‘power to all’ still remainged a big challenge.

He said his government provided free bicycles to thousands of schoolchildren to change state education sector for the better.

“Earlier, girls did not attend school due to poverty. We launched ‘free bicycle scheme’ for girls and they began to ride to schools in groups, which changed the mindset of Bihar people,” the chief minister said.

“I started ‘vikash yatra’ (development march) in 2009 and since then the government has establaished new indicators of development,” he added.

According to officials here, with the formal launch of ‘Barh Chala Bihar’, a group of IIT and IIM graduates under the leadership of Prashant Kishore will work towards Nitish’s victory in Bihar assembly elections.

Prashant’s team is split into two. Citizens Alliance – with close to 35 members – is directly working in tandem with the Bihar government to aggressively promote its achievements.

Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) – with 27 members – is working with the JD(U) for data analytics and work the social media in favour of Nitish, an exercise that paid rich dividends during the Modi campaign.

Nearly 400 trucks, equipped with TV sets, music systems, microphones and speakers and led by a ‘grass-roots mobiliser’, a representative of the team, will move from village to village and showcase Nitish government’s achievements. It will be followed by a discussion with the villagers and others.

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Casino Days Reveal Internal Data on Most Popular Smartphones

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International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.

Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.

The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.

Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile

The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.

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The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.

“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.

 

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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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