Microsoft co-founder Invoice Gates referred to as on Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at his residence right here and mentioned technology-driven farmer empowerment initiatives.
Gates, who arrived right here on Tuesday, held discussions with the chief minister about numerous state authorities initiatives.
“Pleasure assembly @Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Mr @BillGates. Had a beautiful dialogue on our technology-driven farmer empowerment initiatives, a number of welfare initiatives like #JagaMission, #MissionShakti, #OdishaSchoolTransformation, #BSKY and healthcare transformation,” Patnaik stated on X.
He appreciated the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis for supporting innovation in extending inclusive advantages to the individuals.
“Thanked him for his reward for Odisha’s welfare initiatives and success in several sectors via #5T transformative governance,” he added.
Within the morning, he visited a slum in Bhubaneswar and interacted with the residents.
He visited the Biju Adarsh Colony within the Maa Mangla Basti together with state authorities officers.
Apart from enquiring concerning the well-being of the residents of the slum, Gates additionally interacted with members of ladies’s self-help teams (SHGs).
State Growth Commissioner Anu Garg stated, “Now we have proven him that the slum dwellers have gotten land rights, faucet water connections, bogs and energy provide. He expressed happiness over the transformation of the slum space right into a mannequin colony.”
State City Growth Secretary G Mathi Vathanan stated that Gates spoke to the beneficiaries of various welfare schemes of the federal government.
A resident of the colony stated that the philanthropist interacted with them and requested concerning the adjustments of their life-style because of the schemes.
“He requested us about how we had been dwelling earlier and our current standing,” she stated.
Later, he visited Krushi Bhawan, the headquarters of the state agriculture and farmers’ empowerment division.
The state has been partnering with the Basis since 2017 to ahead shared targets round bettering farmers’ earnings, diet safety, and local weather resilience within the state.
“This partnership has allowed the state to emerge as a pacesetter in digital public infrastructure, with the federal government launching key farmer-centric methods together with the Krushak Odisha database, GO-SUGAM portal, and Ama Krushi extension system,” a senior official stated.
With strategic assist from the Basis, the federal government has additionally been in a position to full profitable pilots surrounding crop diversification via the Maize Mandi and agriculture manufacturing cluster (APC) initiatives. These initiatives have now been scaled up throughout the state, Arabinda Kumar Padhee, principal secretary of the agriculture and farmers’ empowerment division, stated.
The forward-looking roadmap for digital agriculture within the state was additionally mentioned with the main target being on Odisha rising as one of many first states to implement an end-to-end know-how stack in agriculture, livestock, and fisheries, he stated.
Gates interacted with two profitable girls farmers within the state who’ve elevated their incomes via the digital public infrastructure arrange by the division.
Padhee stated he gave an outline of the success story of Odisha Millets Mission, with an emphasis on how it’s bettering the livelihood of tribal communities within the state.
