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The Prime MInister, Shri Narendra Modi met Mr Bill Gates on March 04 in New Delhi.
In response to a tweet by Mr Gates, where he shared his ‘Note’ on his recent visit to India, the Prime Minister tweeted: “Delighted to meet @BillGates and have extensive discussions on key issues. His humility and passion to create a better as well as more sustainable planet are clearly visible.”
In his ‘dispatch’, Mr Gates said “I’ve been in India this week, learning about the innovative work going on here in health, climate change, and other crucial areas. At a time when the world has so many challenges, it’s inspiring to visit a dynamic and creative place like India.”
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Delighted to meet @BillGates and have extensive discussions on key issues. His humility and passion to create a better as well as more sustainable planet are clearly visible.
Terming his meeting with the Prime Minister, the highlight of his visit, Mr Gates said “Prime Minister Modi and I have stayed in touch, especially about developing COVID-19 vaccines and investing in India’s health systems. India has an amazing ability to manufacture lots of safe, effective, and affordable vaccines, some of them supported by the Gates Foundation. Vaccines produced in India have saved millions of lives during the pandemic and prevented other diseases around the world.”
He dwelled on India’s handling of the pandemic and said “in addition to producing new life saving tools, India also excels at delivering them—its public health system has delivered more than 2.2 billion doses of COVID vaccines. They created an open-source platform called Co-WIN, which allowed people to schedule billions of vaccine appointments and delivered digital certifications for those who were vaccinated. This platform is now being expanded to support India’s universal immunization program. Prime Minister Modi believes that Co-WIN is a model for the world, and I agree.”
Mr Bill Gates praised India’s stride in digital payments and said, “India was also able
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My conversation with Prime Minister @narendramodi left me more optimistic than ever about the progress that India is making in health, development, and climate. http://gatesnot.es/41LXly8 @PMOIndia
to transfer emergency digital payments to 300 million people, including 200 million women, during the pandemic”
5.40 LMT of wheat sold in 4th e-auction by FcI
As a part of Government of India’s initiative towards market intervention to control the price of wheat and atta, 4th e-auction to offload wheat under OMSS (D) was held on 1 Mrach. Total quantity of 11.57 LMT wheat was offered and 5.40 LMT of wheat has been sold to 1049 bidders in 23 states.
In the 4th e- auction against the all India weighted average selling price received was Rs 2193.82/qtl stocks were sold for an all India weighted average reserve price of Rs. 2137.04/qtl.
In the 4th e-auction quantities ranging from of 100 to 499 MT had maximum demand followed by quantities of 500-999 MT followed by 50-100 MT. Some bids were received for the maximum quantity of 3000 MT at one go.