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Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy

Ideas of India

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The Innovation Level of Sample Servicing

Mahalenobis is the first statistician across the world who comes up with a way where we can actually find a way to sample that will come close to census but at a fraction of the cost. He's really up there with CV Raman and Ramanujan and all the world class sort of you know Indian scientists, says Ravi Agrawal. The fact that he was an institutional builder and he could execute and he was entrepreneurial of course those are wonderful things I think is incredible for that time.

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