Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told the media that connectivity was the biggest reason behind rising malnutrition in Melghat region. He expressed confidence that by developing Harisal as a smart village it would be possible to reduce malnutrition deaths and get rid of this problem forever.
Harisal, a small village in Dharni taluka of Amravati district, is set to become the first smart village with the help of Microsoft. The state is aiming to remove the tag of malnutrition capital put on the hamlet by deploying technology and tele-medicine services there.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told the media that connectivity was the biggest reason behind rising malnutrition in Melghat region. He expressed confidence that by developing Harisal as a smart village it would be possible to reduce malnutrition deaths and get rid of this problem forever.
Fadnavis added that during his visit to Microsoft headquarters in US, he had requested its CEO Satya Nadella to pilot a smart village project and that Nadella had given a positive response for the same. The CM informed that a team comprising representatives of Microsoft and his office visited Harisal to finalise the modalities of converting it into a smart village.
Fadnavis said malnutrition was a complex problem with many angles to it and a quick response through improved connectivity would provide solutions to it in due course of time. He added that all systems would be connected on a digital format, which would come into play whenever secondary or tertiary health services were required.
Announcing the launch of its cloud services from local data centres in India during a programme in Mumbai, Microsoft India chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said cloud services would provide a fillip to the government as well as industry by empowering through high performance computing capabilities. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Pramanik launched the services at Sahyadri Guest House. Pramanik said Microsoft would have two cloud centres in Maharashtra — one in Mumbai and the other in Pune. There would be a cloud centre in Chennai as well for geographical reasons.
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