Bill Gates visits Amethi, promises to develop it as IT hub

RAHUL

Fursatganj (Uttar Pradesh), May 11 (PTI) The high-profile
Amethi Lok Sabha constituency of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
Tuesday had a distinguished visitor in Microsoft Chairman Bill
Gates, who promised to develop the area as an IT hub.
After landing at the airstrip here Gates, accompanied by
Gandhi, drove to Bahadurpur village in Jais town here in north
Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and addressed a meeting of Rajiv
Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojna, a self-help group of women.
Gates explained the importance of computer education and
promised to try his best to develop Amethi and adjoining Rae
Bareli, a Lok Sabha seat represented by Congress President
Sonia Gandhi, as an IT hub.
Gandhi and Gates are likely to visit a number of villages
and see various development works being carried out in Amethi
constituency.
The Congress leader had spent a night along with British
Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a ramshackle hut belonging
to Shivkumari Kori, a poor Dalit, at Simara village in Amethi
in January last year.
Gandhi is likely to take Gates to the same village. PTI
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