37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
The farmer wanted to know why the govt wasn’t using Google Earth and WhatsApp to help the farming community and stop rampant corruption. A pre-budget meeting with members from the farming community literally left chief minister Siddaramaiah stumped when a 69-year-old agriculturist from North Karnataka spoke on the use of Google Earth’s [latitude and longitude] coordinates and WhatsApp to determine and expedite crop insurance claims. While the CM was baffled, his US-educated cabinet colleague, agriculture minister C Krishna Byregowda, reportedly simplified it by saying “Sir, what the farmer is saying is correct and is highly helpful!”
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