Amaravati, February 15 – Bill Gates, the founder chairman of the Gates Foundation, will be visiting Andhra Pradesh on Monday.
Gates, who will be leading a delegation from the Foundation, will have detailed discussions with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, and the Minister for Information Technology Nara Lokesh, on various issues including diversifying sectors such as education, health, and agriculture.
With the cooperation of the Gates Foundation, the State Government will focus on further expanding various projects that are currently underway in these sectors, official sources said on Sunday.
According to the schedule, Bill Gates will be at the State Secretariat at 10 a.m. and will visit the Real Time Governance Society (RTGS) Centre to observe the use of technology in governance.
Chandrababu Naidu will explain the real-time governance policies and results to Bill Gates, after which the Chief Minister, his Cabinet colleagues, and officers from various departments will meet with the Gates team.
Chandrababu Naidu will also present on the reforms undertaken to achieve the goals of the Swarnandhra Vision-2047, as well as providing detailed information on projects such as MedTech, diagnostic services, and Sanjeevani.
The State Government will also provide a detailed demonstration of the Sanjeevani project, which is being run in collaboration with the Gates Foundation.
Later, the Bill Gates team will visit a farm near the Undavalli village in Amaravati to examine the farming practices that have been implemented using drones and AI technology, the sources added.
The Chief Minister had said two days ago that through the Sanjeevani project, public health services would be improved.
Speaking in the Assembly session during the discussion on the motion thanking the Governor's address, he said that with the support of the Gates Foundation, digital health records would be created, enabling personalized medicine.
