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  • AP to boost IT image of city

    `ADVANTAGE AP’ ON MARCH 1, 2

    After having faced some flak for failing to arrest the slide in the IT sector owing to political uncertainty, the state government seems to have gone on the offensive to salvage its pride as “the most favoured destination for IT industries” in the country.

    The state government will be holding a two-day mega event, `Advantage AP’ on March 1 and 2 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), wherein it will invite prospective investors and well known international personalities from the industry to reaffirm its position as “the most favoured IT destination.”

    The event is being organised in association with IT and ITeS Industry Association of Andhra Pradesh (ITsAP), and Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).

    Releasing the `Advantage AP’ brochure, the minister for information, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, said that the industry had been growing steadily and would register a turnover of around `36,000 crore by the end of the current financial year.

    “In 2009-10 AP registered a turnover of more than `33,000 crore,” he said. The minister also claimed that more than nine projects were likely to come to Andhra Pradesh by March 31.

    The principal secretary (IT), Ms Ratna Prabha, said that the state government was aiming to develop tiertwo cities like Kakinada, Warangal, Nalgonda, Vijayawada etc.

    “Special incentives would be offered to move into these cities,” she said. Quoting a news report published in a US newspaper, Ms Ratna Prabha added, “Among the 41 names mentioned in the New York Times, Hyderabad is the only city from India that figures on the list of `must visit’ places.”

    Source : DC

  • Eamcet may go IIT way with jumbled question paper system.

    HYDERABAD: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) authorities have decided to go the IIT, IIM way this Eamcet to prevent any examination fraud. In consultation with communication and intelligence wings of the police department, the university authorities have decided to introduce a jumbled question paper system where question numbers in each of the sets (A/B/C/D) will not match with one another.

    Police officials revealed that students who tried to cheat in the medical examination of Eamcet-2010 used bluetooth-enabled devices to do so as question numbers were the same in all the four sets of papers.

    To prevent any such malpractice, questions in each of the sets will be jumbled. Also, the four optional answers for each of the questions will be in different order in each set, thereby making it virtually impossible for students to copy from one another.

    In Eamcet-2011 to be held in May this year, like the IIT and IIM entrance test question papers, the serial numbers in each of the set will not match. Even students in the same examination hall will not be allowed to sit in ascending order of their hall ticket numbers this year. The seats will be allotted randomly.

    Making the process even more fool-proof, authorities are planning to place cellphone signal jammers at some of the problematic centres.

    “Several new measures introduced last year to reduce errors will be continued even this year also. This would include a fresh question bank and rechecking the questions several times to prevent errors before sending for printing,” said D N Reddy, vice-chancellor, JNTU and chairman, Eamcet committee. He said that the first meeting of the committee to decide on the notification dates of Eamcet will be held on January 29.

    Source : TOI

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