14 DAY TRIAL // It’s no secret that Microsoft sees India as a huge opportunity, not only in terms of sales but also as far as new talents are concerned, as the country is becoming one of the largest providers of skilled IT workers for tech companies across the world, including the Redmond-based software giant itself.
Microsoft already has two data centers in Mumbai and is working to open a new cyber security center in Pune, but following a meeting between CEO Satya Nadella and Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra state in India, the company could expand its presence in the country by adopting a village in Melghat, in Amravati district.
Times of India reports that Fadnavis plans to offer the village health services and specialized consultative care, especially in the context of the poor health care and the high mortality rate among children growing at an alarming rate.
Mostly tribes
Melghat, which is also a Tiger Reserve, is the home of 61 different villages, with more than 11,000 members of tribes currently living there in the most basic way, with the forest servicing as the main provider of food and medicinal plants.
Microsoft hopes that, by adopting the village, it could provide residents with better health services and thus not only cure deadly diseases but also lower the mortality rate of children, who are said the be the main ones affected by the lack of healthy food and drugs.
Seeing Microsoft go for such a philanthropic effort in India is not at all surprising, especially when thinking that the company’s CEO Satya Nadella is originally from this country, and Bill Gates, the man who founded the software empire, is one of the world’s leading philanthropists.
Microsoft is yet to release an official statement on this new effort, but we’ve reached out to the company for more detailed comments on what they plan to do in India, so we’ll update the article when we receive an answer.