Overview

• Chandrababu Naidu secured a face-to-face meeting with Bill Gates in New Delhi in the 1990s despite an initial refusal.
• His week-long presentation extended the planned ten-minute slot to forty-five minutes and impressed Gates.
• That encounter inspired Microsoft’s first development centre outside the US to open in Hyderabad in 1998.
• Gates visited Andhra Pradesh this month to discuss their Gates Foundation collaboration covering health, agriculture and education.
• The inaugural health project aims to move all services online and employ AI for real-time monitoring and patient care.