Building a Smart Grid has become a top priority for India. Approximately 45 percent of India’s poorest households lack access to electricity and approximately 20 percent of its installed electricity capacity is lost to various technical and commercial inefficiencies. These combined technical and commercial losses threaten to deplete state finances that are already strained, but also prohibit millions of Indians from living with a stable and reliable power source.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and India’s Ministry of Agriculture launched today the second phase of the Feed the Future India Triangular Training Program, bringing specialized agriculture trainings to 1,500 agricultural professionals across Africa and Asia.
"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world." These are the immortal words of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the great American humanitarian and scientist who pioneered the Green Revolution. As many of you know, in the mid-1960s, Dr. Borlaug teamed up with Dr. M.S. Swaminathan to drastically increase wheat yields in India, helping this country become self-sufficient in food. Some of my family members, who hail from Punjab, still remember the dramatic impact of the Green Revolution.
Last week, I visited the statue of Dr. Borlaug, which is just behind the hall where we are meeting today. It was a powerful reminder of the legacy of this extraordinary human being, who saved tens of millions of lives in the 20thcentury. I think Dr. Borlaug would be very pleased with the cooperation we are undertaking today.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) announced today the winners of the Read – Engage – Achieve – Dream (READ) Alliance’s second “Early Grade Reading Innovation Challenge.”
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and IKP Knowledge Park today launched the first Call for Proposals under the “Agriculture for Nutrition Grand Challenge”. Ambassador Jonathan Addleton, USAID Mission Director to India, and Ms. Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, Chairman and CEO, IKP Knowledge Park, launched the program in the presence of over a dozen agriculture and nutrition experts.
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