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Blogs

SamagraX is the leading innovator in data and technology use cases in the GovTech space. Read our blogs to discover the latest trends and innovations in the GovTech landscape — or dive into the depths of our live deployments, innovative solutions, and impact stories.

General

Simran Bagga and Amit Gupta

March 7, 2025

Kumbh Sah'AI'yak: Bringing AI to the Common (Wo)man at the World’s Largest Congregation

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant traction, transforming how information is accessed and processed across industries. Governments worldwide are actively exploring AI’s potential, and in India, initiatives like the IndiaAI Mission highlight this shift. In this evolving landscape, Samagra pioneered Kumbh Sah'AI'yak—an AI chatbot designed to assist pilgrims at the Prayagraj Mahakumbh. This blog delves into Samagra’s approach to leveraging AI for large-scale citizen impact, showcasing how AI can be built, customized, and deployed to address India’s unique governance and service delivery challenges.

Agriculture

Gautam Rajeev and Vijeeth Srinivas

March 31, 2023

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to deliver advisory to farmers

Which variety of paddy seeds should be sown for the upcoming Kharif season to generate maximum yield in accordance with changing agro-climatic conditions? What schemes can one avail to reduce the expenditure incurred in purchasing cattle feed? These are some of the many intricate decisions that farmers take through a given season- decisions that are determinants of yield, output realisation, and income.

General

Gautam Rajeev and Siddhant Agarwal

January 16, 2023

Leveraging Data Science algorithms to improve data quality in government

One of the biggest joys while solving a data science problem is the realization that the data needed to solve the said problem is actually available. This joy is even more profound when solving a problem related to government data. The flip side, however, is that data collection in the government ecosystem is often like a game of Chinese Whispers.

Service Delivery

Shailiza Mayal

July 20, 2021

Making scheme delivery seamless: Odisha's plan of action

One of the critical responsibilities of the central and the state governments is to design and implement schemes to provide socio-economic support to citizens.

Education

Sagari Handa

April 13, 2021

How Haryana schools are combating Covid with Open Source technology

As India tries to manage the surge in Covid-19 cases, it is unclear how the next academic year will pan out for crores of school students. After one year of closures, it is still an open question how government schools will carry out the safe reopening of schools. The Government of Haryana started planning for this in September. A key element of the state’s reopening strategy was mandating daily thermal scanning for all students and staff, and recording their temperature and attendance. The rationale for this is that granular reporting of data, over and above a strictly followed safety protocol, will ensure timely action by block and district authorities and prevent schools from becoming pandemic hotspots. Haryana has been able to ensure this through the use of an existing mobile app that the state was already using for recording observations from school visits--Saksham Samiksha. In just over a month, the app was updated to have this additional feature. Between October and March, as schools for most grades opened up, the app’s uptake remained strong with ~29,000 teachers across 14,000+ schools recording student attendance and temperature daily.

Agriculture

Kalpesh Agrawal

August 31, 2020

Building an Open Source tech platform for agriculture

In a previous blog, we explained how data is fuelling Odisha’s agricultural transformation through the Decision Support System (DSS). To recap, DSS is the powerhouse pulling agriculture data from 20+ different databases (like predicted rainfall data from the Indian Meteorological Department system, Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture scheme data from the Central government system and the Jalanidhi scheme data from the NIC Odisha system). This is in addition to the data that is being captured on the platform itself (like data of 50+ agriculture schemes, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana claims disbursement data and crop coverage data of multiple crops). In essence, DSS houses all relevant data points related to agriculture that can help a government official at multiple levels make data-backed decisions. This blog delves into the tech principles on which DSS is built.