Melinda Gates Says :"UP Is A Model For The Whole World"

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's (BMGF) co-founder Melinda Gates stated on Wednesday that Uttar Pradesh is a model not just for India but for the entire world.

At their meeting on Wednesday at Yogi Adityanath's official residence, Melinda Gates and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh talked about strengthening technical collaboration in the areas of health, nutrition, and agriculture.

“Had a wonderful meeting with co-chair and trustee of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at my official residence in Lucknow Uttar Pradesh today. We had a fruitful discussion regarding better technical cooperation in the fields of health, nutrition, social security and agriculture in UP.” Adityanath tweeted after the meeting. 

During the discussion, Gates praised the efforts done by the government of Uttar Pradesh in recent years, emphasizing the control of encephalitis despite a high population density and the management of COVID.

She remarked, “Amid the challenges of Covid, the way the state leadership tackled the issue of dense population and various social challenges is highly commendable,” 

She added, “Uttar Pradesh is a model not only for India, but for the whole world,” 

Gates also applauded the efforts being made to enhance farmer income by encouraging the development of FPOs in the nation's largest agricultural state and congratulated women's self-help groups (SHGs) for the success of the nutrition mission.

The Chief Minister stated to have closely observed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts, which had made an admirable contribution to the fields of nutrition and health.

In the midst of Covid's challenges, Uttar Pradesh received logistical and technical support from the Foundation.

According to the Chief Minister,“Uttar Pradesh has achieved satisfactory success in health and nutrition in recent years. About 95 percent of the deaths of innocent children caused by a disease like encephalitis have been controlled. Besides, the Foundation has cooperated with us for effective control of communicable diseases like chikungunya and Kala-azar. We have received good cooperation from global organizations such as UNICEF, WHO, BMGF and PATH in the field of public health, including in controlling various waterborne diseases such as encephalitis, as well as Covid management.”

Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, and Melinda Gates, a philanthropist, founded the Gates Foundation, officially known as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in 2000. Through initiatives that address, for instance, global agricultural and economic development, medical research and public health initiatives in developing countries, and the improvement of education and access to information in the United States, it focuses its grant-making and advocacy efforts on eradicating global inequities and expanding opportunities for those in need. The charity has set a 50-year deadline after the deaths of its founders as the end of its function. The foundation, which is headquartered in Seattle, also maintains offices in New Delhi, Beijing, Beijing, London, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, Abuja, Nigeria, and Johannesburg.