Home Minister urges Gates to adopt 1,000 Maoist-hit villages
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday urged Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates to adopt 1,000 villages affected by Left-wing extremism violence in Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand, reports said. The meeting came after government recently cancelled the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act licence of Public Health Foundation of India, which is majorly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.