Months ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, billionare philanthropist Bill Gates has appreciated the Narendra Modi government on the first 100 days of the Ayushman Bharat Scheme. Gates also congratulated the government for providing healthcare benefits to 6.85 lakh people in such a short span of time.
"Congratulations to the Indian government on the first 100 days of @AyushmanNHA. It's great to see how many people have been reached by the program so far. @PMOIndia", Gates wrote in his tweet.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2018 launched the Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana which aims to provide coverage of Rs 5 lakh per family annually, benefiting more than 10.74 crore poor families or over 50 crore people for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation through a network of enrolled health care providers.
Gates also has been a firm supporter of the Modi government's Aadhaar scheme. In May 2018, Bill Gates, the founder of one of the world's biggest tech companies, Microsoft, came out openly in support of the Aadhaar scheme saying the Aadhaar technology does not pose any privacy issue.
In October 2014, the billionaire had praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emphasis on building more toilets in the country. "Narendra Modi has India talking about toilets and that's a great thing," Gates said in a tweet which was retweeted by Modi.