In the first day of their visit, they visited Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, and attended the budget session of the house. This visit gave an opportunity for the participants to experience in detail the functioning of a house and the procedures involved therein.  Witnessing the debate, fight and walk out in the house, informed the participants, the necessary change in the attitude, behavior and political culture of the people’s representatives to dream about a developed India. 

The next Visit to Loksatta Party  headed by Dr. Jayprakash Narayan, was an enriching one for the MIT-SOG participants.  Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan is a physician who joined the Indian Administrative Service in the aftermath of the Emergency and during the failure of the Janata Experiment.
He was a topper in the IAS exam. During the 16 years of distinguished public service in various capacities, he acquired a formidable reputation in the State of Andhra Pradesh. He has accomplished various policy initiatives such as law for the self reliant cooperatives and empowerment of local government and stakeholders.  According to him what India needs today is a fundamental change in the rules of the game and not a periodic change of players.   In order to translate his vision into practical reality, he resigned from Service (IAS) in 1996, and worked with like-minded colleagues for the formation of Lok Satta party and is currently its National Coordinator.  Lok Satta  has now emerged as a leading civil society initiative for governance reforms. It has wide reach, name recognition, credibility and passive support of about 20% of the population of Andhra Pradesh. Lok Satta is also  building alliances across India.

Dr. Narayan discussed with MIT-SOG students about the issues in Indian politics, such as corruption, criminalization of politics, current political processes, political culture and the related developmental challenges in India and the type of change in the system essential to enable good Governance in India.  He said the country is ripe for basic changes. “For the first time in India’s history, people all over the country have come to believe that the political system needs to be reformed.  He discussed in detail about the origin and history of Loksatta party, its contribution in legal reforms, the social advocacy and activism undertaken and the challenges and opportunities in front of Loksatta Party today.    In conclusion he defined leadership as “Leading from the front based on one’s virtues without looking for any particular position”.

The next visit to the Indian School of Business (ISB) was an inspiring one. It is the one of best Institute of its kind in India creating corporate leaders.  In ISB, MIT-SOG participants interacted with Dr. Ram Mohan Rao, the Former Dean of ISB and Corporate Icon of India. He discussed with MIT-SOG team, the industrial growth, industrial policies and corporate policies of India.

The participants also attended the 5th Young Indians National Summit 2009, organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Young Indians (Yi) in ISB. In this summit the participants attended the presentation of Prof. C.K. Prahalad, a scholar from the University of Michigan, who talked on Wake Up to India @ 75, a presentation portraying his dream of India after 75 years of Independence. Through this presentation he described the challenges of India's development as well as the positive growth witnessing in various sectors. The presentation was about his dreams of India after 14 years. Another session on Terrorism: A Trigger for a breakthrough agenda was also enlightening for the participants of MIT-SOG. This session focused on, how young Indians can take on Terrorism with a response that is reasoned, inclusive and long-term. The panelists for this discussion included Mr. Raghu Raman, CEO, Mahindra Special Services Group, Mr. M.M. Pallam Raju - Minister for State for Defence, Government of India, Mr. Vijay Kumar, Director - Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad and Mr. Sreenivasan Jain - Manging Editor NDTV, Mr. D. R. Kaarthikeyan - Former Director General of NHRC, CRPF and CBI. The discussion directed to identify workable solution to the issue of terrorism. Everyone from the panel agreed that Good governance, awareness to people, people's participation, and resources allocation to the local police officers, army, Navy, and NSG is the need of the hour. They also mentioned about the moral panicking of the media in this issue also.

The next session in ISB was on Governance: Participatory Democracy and Moral Leadership.  In that discussion the  discussion panel consists of Mr. Anu Aga - Director, Thermax, Mr. Madhu Goud  Yaskshi - Member of Parliament (INC), Mr. Gopal Srinivasan -  Chairman-CII Mission on India @75 and CMD, Mr. Trilochan Sastry - Professor and Dean, Indian Institute of Management, and Mr. Mrigank Tripathi - Director, QED Venture Advisors and Organizer of Tata Jagriti Yatra.   In this session the discussion directed towards the question of how one protects the rights of an individual without compromising the larger benefit of the society.  The discussion concluded with the key learning that Good Governance coupled with Moral leadership based on participatory democracy is the need of the hour to develop India into a superpower. 

The next appointment for MPG-04 was at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, (SVPNPA) an institute preparing leaders for Indian Police.  The MIT-SOG team attended a training session of the police officers, facilitated by Mr. Shri G.H.P. Raju - the Deputy Director of the Police Academy. He briefed the participants about the police organizational structure in India and its implications. He interacted with the MIT-SOG participants and clarified their queries related to bad image and performance of police in India. While answering to the query he focused on the police recruitment and procedures of promotion, which he confirmed as responsible for the bad image of police in   India today.    After observing the infrastructure facilities of the academy, the participants interacted with Shri Shirish Jain - the Deputy Director of SVP National Policy Academy.  

He informed the students the details about the police training courses, the curriculum and various activities and the functioning of the NPA.  After this interaction, MIT-SOG team got an opportunity to meet the Director of the Academy Mr. Vijay Kumar (IPS), who is famous for his bravery and the rare achievement to trap the most wanted “Veerappan”.    
Mr. Vijay Kumar congratulated the MIT-SOG participants for taking this difficult and the demanding path of Political Leadership. He also shared his views on the nature and type of leadership India demands today. 

National Institute of Rural Development was the next destination for the MIT-SOG students, which is an institute, facilitating rural sustainable development with particular emphasis and focus on the rural poor by improving the knowledge, skills and attitudes of rural development officials, non  officials.

The visit to the Institute enabled the participants to understand various rural technologies available for the rural people. The information about self help groups, cooperatives, housing technologies, low cost toilet facilities and various finished products from the available raw materials in the rural area broadened the horizons of the MIT-SOG participants.
The next visit of the MIT-SOG team was to Congress Party office in Hyderabad. Here they interacted with Mr. Rapolu Anand Bhaskar - General Secretary of the  Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee.  He discussed about the relevance of youth leadership in Indian politics and the requirement of new and innovative ideas to appeal to the people. He also briefed about the working of Andhra Pradesh Congress Party.

MIT group also visited Telugu Desam Party (TDP) office and met Mr. Dadi Veerabhadra Rao -  opposition leader of the A.P. Legislative Council and also interacted with Prof. Suryanarayana, an intellectual and retired professor of politics working in TDP.   Both of them talked about the history, vision and mission of TDP and the detailed manifesto which includes economic security, food security and health security and strategy of TDP in the coming elections.  The highlight among its 64-page election manifesto is a unique Cash Transfer Scheme for the vulnerable sections, free color television distribution to below poverty line families, comprehensive health insurance covering ailments from fever to heart problems, creation of 1,250 Modern Development Corridors for generation of about 25 lakh jobs, creation of a Rs 1,000 crore market stabilization fund for the agriculture sector.
Other promises include,   implementing a five-day week for state government employees, enacting a legislation to check political corruption in the state and agriculture sector too would be promoted to the international level on par with the Information Technology sector.  The discussion also directed towards the shift of TDP’s stand on separate Telengana issue. According to the TDP office, TDP will take all required legal and political steps for creation of a separate state.  In the interaction, D.V. Rao also shared his experience as an opposition leader in the AP Legislative Council.   

The MIT SOG teams visit to the Centre for Political Development (CPD) was a proud moment, as CPD is an institute created by one of the alumni of MIT-SOG.  The vision of CPD is to bring positive political change and to develop the political system of the country.  In CPD, the MIT-SOG team interacted with Mr. Shyam Mohan, who is the Chairman of the Intellectual Cell of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee.    As an experienced person, who has written various articles on different topics, Mr. Shyam Mohan, mentioned about the role of intellectuals in Indian political system.    He also stressed that as future leaders; one will have to focus on one particular area and must be specialized in something. He elucidated the relevance of values in Indian politics and value based leadership.  While sharing his experiences in politics in India he highlighted the relevance of Gandhian values even today.    The participants of MIT-SOG also got an opportunity in CPD to meet Dr. Bhagya Reddy, a Psychiatrist and Social worker who discussed with the student the individual and social behavior necessary for a leader, and the importance of emotional strength and confidence.   He also indicated about the social psyche, which is necessary for a successful leader to   comprehend and to act accordingly. 

MIT- SOG participants also visited National Academy of Construction (NAC) during their Hyderabad trip.  National Academy of Construction (NAC) has emerged as an apex body for development of all types of construction resources, technologies and methodologies for fast track completion of projects.   
Registered as a "Society" and incorporated as a "Public Charitable" institution in September 1998, it is managed by a Board of Governors with the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh as its Chairman.

The mission of NAC is to develop a technologically advanced and competitive construction industry which serves India's economic needs. With this goal, NAC runs various training courses and programs of relevance to the construction industry. Training of construction technicians and supervisors is a part of the activities of the NAC. The visit to NAC has given diverse ideas and perspective of rural and urban development, technologies and projects which can be implemented in their  own home state to  the budding leaders of MIT-SOG.  They also interacted with the team of Andhra Pradesh centre of the Builders Association of India.

MIT SOG team also visited and interacted with Mr. Kondireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, an aspiring congress MP from Bhongiri   parliamentary constituency, from Nalgonda District.  He discussed his field experience in politics as he is from a political family. Through the interaction he expressed the voter’s psyche, demands, voting patterns and people’s views and expectations from elections and from their votes.

The Participants also interacted with one of the famous Naxalist leader in Hyderabad. The meeting with him better informed the participants about the Naxalism as the movement and clarified many of the queries they had in the classroom about the milieu and psychology of the people who choose the path of Naxalism and to the dangers to this type of uprisings to the state and the people as a whole.