NEW DELHI: Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates today promised to extend all support to Centre’s efforts to expand the reach and effectiveness of sustainable sanitation services under the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and Gates, who is Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed at length implementation of the sanitation campaign in urban areas of the country.
“Foundation’s cooperation with India to promote safe and sustainable sanitation services to all is one of its best partnerships,” Gates said after the meeting.
The foundation had signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the UD Ministry to promote sanitation services in January this year.
Naidu informed Gates that “after a slow start, all the states are now becoming pro-active to ensure cleanliness following huge enthusiasm generated among the public about sanitation in urban areas.
“Clean India can’t be achieved overnight but a good beginning has been made in that direction and efforts are to make Swachh Bharat Mission a people’s movement.”(AGENCIES)
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